Extra Credit reminder

You may do one of the following two options for up to 10 extra points on a test:

If you attended the ASF trip, you may write up a 2 page summary of the trip. However, you must relate it to the historical context of the English Renaissance.

If you visit any historic site (this includes museums, battlefields, historic homes), you may write up a 2 page summary of your trip. You must also give historical context of the historic site you visit. In other words, you must relate it to the time period of US history and give background information of major issues, movements, and how your historic site fits into the period and represents an important part in US events/trends/history.

This extra credit is an open ended assignment that may be turned in any time before the end of the semester.

2112 Possible Discussion Questions

1. Describe American imperialism and attitudes toward Latin America and East Asia/Pacific areas.

2. Analyze the changing role of journalism. Include both positive and negative influences on society based on overall nonexistent standards of reliability as well as investigative journalism. Give specific examples to support your answer.

3. Who were the progressives? Describe this mixed lot of people, the mixed bag of causes/reform efforts, and overall successes and failures of the Progressive movement.

4. Explain the roles of Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson in the Progressive movement.

5. How did nationalism, imperialism, and militarism lead to WWI in Europe? How did the U.S. become involved?

6. Explain WWI "over here" in the U.S. Include African Americans, women, war propaganda, war heroes, nationalism, the draft, and other events unrelated to the war directly.

7. What was the legacy of WWI, Wilson's Fourteen Points Plan, and the final version of the Treaty of Versailles?

8. Describe how Harding's "Return to Normalcy," Cultural Fundamentalism, and the fear of communism drive the 1920s. What larger themes are reflected by such trends; relate such trends to the contradictory ideas of American Exceptionalism in principle and practice.

9. Analyze how everyday life was changing for most Americans in the 1920s and compare this to everyday life in the 1930s. Consider economic systems and cycles (including production/consumption).

10. How and why did the stock market crash? Describe subsequent events including Hoover's mishandling of the depression and FDR's New Deal. Did the New Deal lift the American people out of economic depression?

11. Compare and contrast FDR with other European leaders. Should American history view him as a hero or a threat contained by checks and balances?

2111 Possible Discussion Questions

1. Discuss the major issues and solutions of the Constitution Convention. What contradictions issues of power remain apparent in the 1790s and early 1800s?

2. Compare and contrast Jeffersonian America and Jacksonian America. (Include ideological characteristics, federal v. state power, changes in the shape and direction of the nation, and the realities of life for Americans and Native Americans.)

3. What were the causes and the stakes of the War of 1812? What was the war's significance to American history and the course of the nation?

4. How did the Supreme Court from 1800-1830 help shape the direction of American domestic policy and political powers?

5. How did the Industrial Revolution change consumption, production, and social class in America 1790-1850?

6. Describe changes in demographics in the U.S. in the early 1800s. What were the characteristics of the frontier, eastern port cities, and reactions to these changes? What do these changes and reactionary developments reflect about the notion of American principles versus reality/practices?

7. Explain the plight of Native Americans from 1800-1840.

8. Describe reform and religious movements and developments from 1820-1850. In what ways were issues involved in reform and religion related? Also describe splinters movements and leaders involved.

9. Analyze urban life and urbanization. What was the relationship between urbanization and the Industrial Revolution? What changes were made during this period?

10. How and why did Manifest Destiny lead to Civil War? What major territories are acquired from 1800-1850 and what compromises/movements postpone the inevitable conflict?

1122 Possible Discussion Questions

1. Was the French Revolution successful in respect to a realizing the goals of a social revolution with a redistribution of wealth and universal suffrage?

2. How did the Industrial Revolution change notions of production, consumption, and technology?

3. How did the Industrial Revolution affect labor, class, and gender?

4. How did the Industrial Revolution affect urbanization and social trends in cities as well as non-Industrial countries?

5. Describe the period known as the "Concert of Europe." Include emerging ideas of nationalism, imperialism, liberalism, and militarism.

6. Analyze issues of power and dominance between industrialized Western nations and views of the "Other" during imperialism. What was the evolving definition of the "West" due to imperialism and world trade?

7. What was the relationship between Africa, India, China and the West during the 19th century?

8. Explain the continued "laboratory of revolution" in France during the 19th century after 1815. Why did events/movement occur differently in France than in England?

9. How did the United States fit into and struggle with European themes of industrialization, expansion, and liberalism?

10. Describe the artistic and intellecutal period known as Romanticism.

11. How and why did WWI begin?

2112 Unit 2 IDs

2112 Unit 2 IDs

1. Imperialist and Anti-Imperialist arguments
2. Seward’s Ice Box
3. Spanish American War
4. Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
5. Cuba and the Platt Amendment
6. Yellow Journalism
7. Hawaii, Queen Lily, Sanford B. Dole, and annexation
8. Philippine Insurrection
9. Policies and event in China
10. Acquisition of the canal zone, and building of the Panama Canal
11. Big Stick Diplomacy
12. Mass entertainment, sports, and new issues of health and hygiene
13. Participants of Progressive America and causes of the reform movement
14. Government involvement, public awareness, media attention of exploitative practices and unacceptable conditions
15. Muckrakers (Riis, Sinclair, Tarbell, etc.)
16. The Jungle
17. Bob La Follette
18. Labor Unions and the Wobblies
19. Eugene Debs for president
20. Women’s causes and the Suffragette movement
21. Teddy the Trustbuster? Presidency of Teddy Roosevelt
22. William H. Taft’s presidency
23. Election of 1912- Bull Moose, Republican, Democrats (Wilson wins)
24. Legacy of Progressivism (which officially ends around the time of WWI)
25. Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism
26. Alliances and Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
27. Schlieffen Plan, Otto Von Bismarck
28. U.S. isolationism and events that pull us into WWI
29. Technology and industrialization in warfare
30. Trench warfare and stalemate on the West
31. Bolshevik Revolution
32. Mexican Revolution
33. WWI Propaganda and Selective Service Act (incorporate themes of loyalty, patriotism, etc.)
34. U.S. War Heroes
35. African Americans and Women during wartime and after wartime
36. Prohibition and the 18th Amendment
37. Wilson’s “New Freedom” suspended with fear of communism
38. Fourteen Points v. Treaty of Versailles
39. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”, Cultural Fundamentalism, Religious Fundamentalism
40. Politics of Prosperity,
41. Effects of new forms of communication, entertainment, transportation on American culture and economy
42. Henry Ford and his contributions
43. Ideology of Consumption, Consumerism, Materialism
44. New industries due to industrial revolution and mass production
45. Red Scare, Sacco and Vanzetti, and Palmer Raids
46. New Klan
47. Scopes Monkey Trial
48. Great Migration
49. NAACP, UNIA, W.E.B. Dubois, Marcus Garvey, Booker T. Washington
50. Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance
51. Harding, Coolidge (Silent Cal), and Hoover policies toward big business and government regulation and intervention
52. Buying on Margin, Speculation
53. Stock Market Crash
54. Hoovervilles, Bonus Army castastrophe, Dust Bowl, “Forgotten” Man
55. Vicious cycle of lowered production, consumption, labor
56. International Depression
57. First 100 Days (include organizations set up during this time, e.g. CCC, WPA, etc) and FDR’s New Deal
58. Fireside Chats
59. AAA, S.Ct., Court Packing, Checks and Balances
60. Movies and music
61. NRA and nationalism (and perverted/distorted meanings of nationalism)
62. Anti-New Deal, Father Coughlin, Huey Long
63. Legacy of the New Deal and End of the Great Depression
64. Rise to Power- Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, FDR, Franco, Tojo
65. Defiance of Versailles, Anti-Semitism, Invasion of Poland, Blitzkreig
66. New Alliances
67. Pearl Harbor

The "ISMS"- Imperialism, Nationalism, Colonialism, Orientalism

For more on Orientalist representations go to:
http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/arthistory/ah369/westernrepresent.htm

or

http://www.orientalist-art.org.uk/

Go to the Victorian web at: http://www.victorianweb.org/

Consider these questions after reading the Victorian Web source and analyzing the political cartoon:

1. How is the Chinaman portrayed? What is the relationship between the European and Chinaman? Analyze how this reflects the power (master/slave paradigm) of imperialism?

2. How did Britain incorporate India into the British Empire?

3. What was the rebellion about in 1857-8? How were factors of religion, customs, power involved?

4. How did the British affect the Caste System in ways that maintained Indian pre-colonial culture. How was pre-colonial culture lost regarding the Caste?

5. How were the Irish affected by the characteristics ofr "imperium" or empire? Why is their case different?

2111- Am. History I Unit 2 IDs

2111 Unit Two IDs- Spring 2006
1. Articles of Confederation
2. Shay’s Rebellion
3. Constitutional Convention
4. Federalists v. Antifederalists
5. North v. South
6. Big States v. Small States
7. Bill of Rights
8. New government- The Cabinet
9. Alexander Hamilton and the Bank of the U.S.
10. James Madison
11. George Washington as President (and his ideas regarding government)-
12. Federalists
13. Democrat Republicans
14. John Adams’s presidency, Alien and Sedition Acts and KY, VA Resolutions
15. Election of 1800 and the Midnight Justices
16. Marbury v. Madison and Judicial Review
17. Characteristics of Jeffersonian American (ideals versus realities)
18. The building of Washington D.C.
19. Louisiana Purchase (and the Haitian Revolution/Napoleon)
20. Lewis and Clark Expedition
21. War of the Barbary Pirates
22. Impressment (during Adams, Jefferson, and Madison’s presidencies)
23. War hawks
24. Causes and the stakes of the War of 1812
25. Tecumseh
26. Battle of Ft. McHenry and the Star Spangled Banner
27. The Burning of Washington D.C.
28. Battle of New Orleans/Treaty of Ghent
29. Characteristics of Early Frontier Life
30. Squatters and Land Speculators
31. Early Immigrants
32. Henry Clay, The American System, and the National Road (Cumberland)
33. Transportation Revolution (Steamboats and Railroads)
34. New forms of power
35. James Monroe and the Era of Good Feelings
36. Monroe Doctrine
37. Judicial Nationalism (Marshall Court and relevant cases expanding federal power)
38. Strict v. Loose Construction
39. Industrial Revolution Part One (principles and consequences on production, consumption)- the Market Revolution and the Age of Machines




40. Wool to cotton- changes in Textile Production
41. Factory System/Lowell Mills
42. New Inventions (textiles and agriculture)
43. Industry, Politics, and Labor conditions
44. New forms of communication
45. Renewed profitability of slavery
46. Missouri Compromise of 1820
47. Election of 1824- The Corrupt Bargain
48. Presidency of J.Q. Adams
49. Andrew Jackson- symbol of an age
50. Whole Hog for Jackson (1828) and Principles of Jacksonian America
51. Destruction of the Second Bank of the United States
52. Spoils System
53. Sequoya
54. Worchester v. Georgia, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
55. Indian Removal and the Treaty of New Echota, Trail of Tears
56. Nullification Crisis and John C. Calhoun
57. Second American Party System (Democrats and Whigs)
58. Martin Van Buren
59. William Henry Harrison and John Tyler
60. Second Great Awakening
61. Charles Finney
62. Transcendentalists
63. Mormons
64. Utopian Communities
65. Dorothea Dix
66. Temperance Movement
67. Horace Mann
68. Lucretia Mott/Grimke Sisters
69. Seneca Falls Convention
70. Manifest Destiny
71. Empesarios
72. Texas Revolution/Lone Star Republic
73. Sam Houston
74. The Alamo
75. Presidency of James K. Polk and his attitude toward expansion
76. Oregon Territory
77. Bear Flag Republic

Extra Credit- All classes

As we near Spring Break, I wanted to give all of you the opportunity to earn some extra credit this semester. You can do one of the following two options for up to 10 points on your next test. You cannot do both options.

If you are going on the ASF trip, you may write up a 2 page summary of the trip. However, you must relate it to the historical context of the English Renaissance.

If you visit any historic site (this includes museums, battlefields, historic homes), you may write up a 2 page summary of your trip. You must also give historical context of the historic site you visit. In other words, you must relate it to the time period of US history and give background information of major issues, movements, and how your historic site fits into the period and represents an important part in US events/trends/history.

2112- 1920s websites

Here are links to the websites used in class:

Politics of Prosperity

Politics of Frustration

2111 Primary Source Take Home Quiz

Answer the following questions in an essay analyzing the linked primary source. The quiz will be due the last class before spring break and will be worth two quiz grades (4%). The essay should be typed and double spaced.

Discuss changing issues of power, reliability, and transportation brought by the early Industrial Revolution in America (1820-1850s). How does new technology change the direction and shape of America for better and for worse?

The source is linked to the title or can be found at:

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/tomthumb.htm

HIST 1122 Primary Source Take Home Quiz

This quiz is worth two quizzes (4%). It should be typed and double spaced. Answer the following question:

How did industrialization in Europe affect business, life, and morality?

The source can be found at the following link:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1842womenminers.html

You may also click on the linked title or cut and paste it into your browser.