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Part Four - A Maturing Industrial Society 1877 - 1914
AMSCO "West" Excerpt for 1/16 Readings for the West  Voices #129 - "A Century of Dishonor:" Helen Hunt Jackson   also #131 "A Cultural Exchange on the Western Frontier" and #132 "A Native American remembers the Ghost Dance  and  #134 "The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893)" Frederick Jackson Turner Chinese Exclusion Act   ********* Expansion of Big Business readings *Voices (Hyser):  # 139 "The Success of Standard Oil" and #140 "The Gospel of Wealth" Be sure to read the introductions.  *American Spirit Part C "The New Philosophy of Materialism  (Carnegie, Nation, Conwell.)   AND, the REACTION by Labor: *Voices  #137 "Progress and Poverty"  (Henry George)  #141 Views on the Trusts; #142 - Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor (1878); (Included in "BigBiz/Labor)   *Homestead ********  Voices  #148 - "The Unwanted Immigrants: The Chinese (1878)"  American Spirit 26D Populists readings The New South Voices (Hyser) #146 - "The Negro Question in the South" ************ PROGRESSIVE ERA Ch  20 SKILLS 11 - Progressive  Era TRIANGLE  (Handout in class) Progressive Legislation Worksheet McKinley Story    Listen to an actual recording of a short speech that he made from a front porch ****************** EMERGING WORLD POWER Ch 21   Voices #151 "Our Country" Josiah Strong; #152 "the Sinking of the Maine (1898); #153 Aguinaldo's Call for Philippine Independence; #154 An Anti-Imperialist Perspective; #155 "The New Manifest Destiny."     MAP: Download Map of the Pacific; Identify Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Philippines, Cuba, China, Japan  Of interest: Liliuokalani letter    US Congress resolution re: Hawaii Opposing Viewpoints  American Empire: Debate over the Philippines (Albert Beveridge and Joseph Henry Crooker) SKILLS Ch 10 - Foreign Policy topics - dealing with all aspects of prompt; arranging docs into categories.	AMSCO West Helen Hunt Jackson West Readings  Chinese Exclusion Act Big Biz/Labor  The New Philosophy Better pix: get a clearer view of the political cartoons in #141:  "Bosses of the Senate" and  "One Sees His Finish..."     ******** Unwanted Immigrants Populists #146 "The Negro Question in the South."   AMSCO New South *** SKILLS 11
Part Five - The Modern State and Society 1914 - 1920
For Chapter 22 - War and the American State   SKILLS Ch 10 - Foreign Policy topics - dealing with all aspects of prompt; arranging docs into categories. Bring the Document skills section to class with you.  (Group discussion re: the documents.)   Voices # 167 - the First Amendment and Schenk; #169 The Homefront War (1917-1918); #172 the Red Scare ( "The First Red Scare" - there will be another one in the 1950s) Assignment: 1. Charles Schenk, Socialist, lost his case when Oliver Wendell Holmes argued that the law should be based on the conditions of the time. How does Holmes interpret the First Amendment for this case? What new concept is introduced? Should there ever be limits on free speech? 2. In the reporter's account of the jailing of "radicals" in Detroit, to what extent were the authorities implicated in contributing to the propaganda that these men were a danger to the US? 3.  What does the "Save Wheat" poster imply about differences between women's lives in the US and in wartime France? Why do you think the artist chose to depict the "hard times" in France in just this way? (Why women? Why plowing a field?) Please write an informal written response to each of these questions. For Chapter 23 - Modern Times   SKILLS Ch 11 - The Document section reviews the 1920s. Bring to class Voices #171 The New Negro article (1925); #174  The Role of Advertising (1922); #176 Religion and the Scopes Trial (1925) - prosecutor William Jennings Bryan's remarks for the close of the trial  1. What was meant by "the New Negro"?  To what extent was the (more or less) segregated enclave of Harlem a factor in this Renaissance? 2. Is Hoyt correct in his assertion that advertising performs a service to Americans? In what ways might advertising have contributed to the Cultural Divide? To have helped alleviate the Divide (or helped to make a national American culture)? 3.  Why had the Scopes trial become so significant?  Is there an issue of Free Speech when teaching science? Is the teaching of science or math intrinsically different from teaching English or History with regard to freedom of expression?   For Chapter 24 - Redefining Liberalism: The New Deal  1933-1939 Voices #181  FDR First Inaugural Address (1933);  #184 the "Dust Bowl" (1935);   #185 The TVA (1937); #187 Perspectives on the New Deal (Images)  1. In what was does Franklin Roosevelt seek to build the American people's confidence?   2. What does Roosevelt believe are the significant problems facing the nation? How does he propose to resolve them?   3. Compare Roosevelt's plan as outlined here with what you read in the textbook about the ways in which the Roosevelt administration acted to end the Depression. Where did he succeed? Did some of his plan (as stated in the Inaugural) go unrealized? (Explain)   4.  What were the short term affects of the Dust Bowl? The long term effects?   5. What is the relationship of the Dust Bowl to California's history?    6. Why was Odette Keun so enthusiastic about the TVA project? Was the TVA successful?   7. What do her observations reveal about the tensions between government and private enterprise in the New Deal?  8. Analyze the two cartoons.  For Chapter 25 - The World At War  1939-1945 SKILLS Ch 12 - The Great Depression and WWII Voices #188 The Four Freedoms (1941) and #189  Isolation from the European War  #191 Life in a Japanese Internment Camp (1942); #192 Women in the Homefront War Effort (1942); #193 - Images: Homefront (1941-1945);  #194 Truman's Decision to Drop  the Bomb (1945)   1.  What is the significance to Roosevelt's emphasis on "economic justice" at the beginning of the speech?   2. What does he want Americans to do?   3. What is Lindbergh's response?  What did he hope to accomplish?   4. Were the relocation camps necessary? (Consider the  actions of Nativists to Japanese-Americans as you ponder this question.) Why didn't more non-Japanese speak up for the rights of their Japanese neighbors?   5. Why was so much propaganda needed to convince women to join the war effort (by working for the military or in war industries)?   6. How did the decision to use a nuclear weapon change American foreign policy?    7. Putting aside the question of ethics and morality - was using the weapon on civilians necessary? In other words, would a "demonstration" have been sufficient to convince the USSR and/or Japan of American military strength?
Part Six: The Age of Cold War Liberalism 1945 - 1980
For Chapter 26 -  Cold War America  1945 - 1960 Voices For Chapter 27 -  The Age of Affluence  1945 - 1960 Voices For Chapter 28 -  The Liberal Consensus: Burning Out 1960 - 1968 SKILLS Ch 14 Struggling for the American Dream Voices For Chapter 29 -  The 1970s: Toward a Conservative America SKILLS Ch 15 Crisis of Confidence Voices
Part Seven: Entering a New Era: Conservatism, Globalization, Terrorism  1980 - 2006
For Chapter 30  - The Reagan Revolution and the End of the Cold War 1980 - 2001 REVIEW CHAPTERS: Lesson 3 (better copy)