A Little "Holiday" History

Here is a link to the "Christmas truce" during WWI.  Its an interesting story.

WWI Holiday Truce

And here's another interesting story about the origin of NORAD's "Santa Tracker".
(I checked this and verified the reliability of the story)

Santa Tracker

Effects of WWI and Roaring '20s

Following WWI, the US went through many changes.

  There were many issues that arose and increased in the aftermath of WWI.  Racial unrest, labor strikes, radicalism, and anti-immigration movements increased and forced government response.  Use of the National Guard to break of strikes and riots, deportation of immigrants and radicals were some of the methods used. 

Be sure to be able to describe the effects of the following:
Great Migration
Red Scare
Palmer Raids
Riots of 1919
Steel Strike
Prohibition (18th Amendment)
Washington Conference
Kellogg-Briand Pact

Election of 1920 - Return to Normalcy
New Industries:
Automobile
Radio
Airlines
Consumer Credit
Mass advertising

Nativism and Immigration:
Sacco-Vanzetti
National Origins Act (Quota System)
Mexican Immigration

Clash of Cultures:
New Woman - "Flapper"
Fundamentalism
Scopes "Monkey Trial"
Prohibition - Video

Pop Culture:
Art and Literature
Movies and Radio shows
Sports
Inventions Video

Harlem Renaissance:
Writers
Music
Theater
 Video - Harlem Renaissance

African American Politics:
NAACP
Black Nationalism
Marcus Garvey
 

 

Causes of WWI

December 5 and 8...
What caused WWI?   Today's lesson will explain how, within a matter of days, the major countries of the world found themselves involved in a long, deadly conflict.  It will also describe the events that forced America out of its plan for neutrality and into the war in Europe.

US History – WWI 

Use textbook….pages 184 – 188

Create a Cinquain poem for each of the causes of WWI.

Imperialism, Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism

Poem – To create a cinquain poem, you name a topic and describe it by completing the each line in the following format.

Summarize basic elements

 

NAME

TWO ADJECTIVES

THREE VERBS

SIMILE (like a….or as a …..)

SYNONYM (means the same as the “NAME”)

 

Example:

Susan B. Anthony was an advocate for women’s suffrage and tried to vote in the 19^th century.

Susan B. Anthony

Progressive, Intelligent

Enlightening, Crusading, Pioneering

As Visionary as our Founding Fathers

Suffragist!!!!

 

 

Create an annotated timeline of the following events to show how the USA became involved in WWI.
1.  Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
2.  Declarations of War in Europe
3.  Sinking of Lusitania
4.  Zimmermann Telegram
5.  Germany resumes Submarine warfare
6.  Wilson asks for a Declaration of War

 

Annotations should explain how each event was a step toward war.

 

Conclusion:  Why was America determined to remain neutral?  What events changed Wilson's stance on the war?  Rewrite the quote on page 188 using your own words. Explain how the quote "justifies" American involvement.

 

 

 

Part II:
Cartoon Analysis

 

 

1.      What objects or people do you see in the cartoon?

2.      List three words or phrases the identifies people, objects, or places within the cartoon.

3.      Which of the objects are symbols?  (list three)

4.      What do you think each symbol means?

 

5.      Which words or phrases appear to be the most important?  Why do you think so?

 

6.      Describe the action taking place in the cartoon.  How are the words or symbols involved?

 

7.      Explain the message of the cartoon.

Imperialism

December 1 - 4:

Imperialism:  The new dilemma for America...Was America destined to build an empire?

Take notes from the following power point:

 

 

Progressive Presidents

Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, and Woodrow Wilson were all considered to be "Progressive Presidents" in some manner.  Using information in the textbook (pages 160 - 179), create a foldable to describe how each of these men influenced the Progressive era.

Title:  Progressive Presidents
Topic #1:  Theodore Roosevelt
Topic #2:  William H. Taft
Topic #3:  Woodrow Wilson

Assignment.  Due by Friday November 21.

Progressive President Foldable

Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft., Woodrow Wilson

Must include the following (be sure to connect with the correct President)

1.  Years in office

2.  Acts of progressivism from the list below.  Be sure to include an explanation:

·      16^th Amendment

·      Adamson Act               

·      Anti-Defamation League

·      Ballinger v. Pinchot

·      Bureau of Mines 

·      Children’s Bureau       

·      Clayton Anti-Trust Act

·      Coal strike and arbitration

·      Conservation

·      Department of Commerce and Labor

·      Election of 1912  

·      Federal Reserve System            

·      Federal Trade Commission

·      Hepburn Act

·      Keating Owen Child Labor Act

·      Meat Inspection Act   

·      Northern Securities

·      Payne Aldrich Tariff    

·      Pure Food and Drug Act 

·      Square Deal 

·      Trustbuster  

·      Underwood Tariff

·         United States Forest Service     

Progressivism

November 7 and 10.
Progressivism was NOT a tightly organized political movement.  Instead, it was collection of different ideas, activities and reforms that could be partially attributed to laissez-faire economics.

Progressives came from BOTH political parties.  Most were urban, educated, white, middle-class Americans.  They believed that the government need to be reformed.  AFTER the government was "fixed", it should take a more active role in solving societies problems.  They had a strong faith in science and technology and believed that by using scientific principles, solutions for the problems could be found.

Muckrakers - journalists who uncovers and reveals corruption and abuses in society.
Examples:  Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens

Issues addressed by Progressives:

Political Machines

Government Efficiency

Democratic reforms

Women's sufferage

Child Labor

Health and Safety Codes

Prohibition

Regulation of big business

Socialism

How were these issues addressed by the Progressives?



Assignment:
Acrostic Poem
Create an Acrostic poem using the terms...Industrialism, Urbanization,  Immigration, Unionization, or Progressivism.  You must one of the terms...Print the topic VERTICALLY, letter by letter, along the left margin of your paper.  Each letter then becomes the starting point for a word, phrase, or sentence that describes the topic.

EXAMPLE:

Students of various backgrounds

Come together for the purpose of learning.

Halls and rooms bustle with eager young people who

Overwhelmingly impress their teachers with intelligence.

Out in the back, is an athletic arena where talented athletes

Lead their teams in competition.


November  12 and 13.

Lesson taken from
http://sheg.stanford.edu



Assignment:
Answer the question:  What were the attitudes of Progressive social reformers toward immigrants?

Team A: Progressive social reformers were generous and helpful.
Team B: Progressive social reformers were condescending and
judgmental.
PROCEDURE
30 minutes:   With your teammate, read the documents. Find three pieces of
evidence which support your side.
10 minutes:   Team A presents. BOTH PARTNERS MUST PRESENT!!!
Team B writes down Team A’s arguments and then repeats them
back to Team A.
10 minutes:   Team B presents. BOTH PARTNERS MUST PRESENT!!!
Team A down arguments of Team B and then repeats them back to
Team B.
10 minutes: Everyone CAN ABANDON their positions. Groups of 4 attempt to
develop a consensus.

Documents for Progressive discussion

 Read the documents.  Collect evidence that supports your side.  Share with opposing side.  Write a consensus.  EACH person must write the consensus (it can be the same). 

Populism Lesson

This lesson is from http://sheg.standford.edu

Assignment for November 7, 10

Populism and the Election of 1896

Why did the Populist Party attract millions of supporters?

Read the following documents and answer the questions.

Document A: Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890 (Modified)

The mightiest movement the world has known in two thousand years.

. . is sending out the happiest message to oppressed humanity that

the world has heard since John the Baptist came preaching in the

wilderness that the world’s Redeemer was coming to relieve the

world’s misery.

To this sterile and remote region, infested by savage beasts and still

more savage men, the women of the New England States, the

women of the cultured East, came with husbands, sons and brothers

to help them build up a home [in the West] . . . .We endured

hardships, and dangers; hours of loneliness, fear and sorrow. . . We

toiled in the cabin and in the field; we helped our loved ones to make

the prairie blossom. . .

Yet, after all our years of toil and deprivation, dangers and hardships,

our homes are being taken from us by an infamous [wicked] system

of mortgage foreclosure. It takes from us at the rate of five hundred a

month the homes that represent the best years of our life, our toil, our

hopes, our happiness. How did it happen? The government, siding

with Wall Street, broke its contracts with the people. . . . As Senator

Plumb [of Kansas] tells us, “Our debts were increased, while the

means to pay them [cash] was decreased.”

No more millionaires, and no more paupers; no more gold kings,

silver kings and oil kings, and no more little waifs of humanity starving

for a crust of bread. We shall have the golden age of which Isaiah

sang and the prophets have so long foretold; when the farmers shall

be prosperous and happy, dwelling under their own vine and fig tree;

when the laborer shall have that for which he toils. . . .When we shall

have not a government of the people by capitalists, but a government

of the people, by the people.

Source: Mary Elizabeth Lease became politically involved as a speaker for the

rights of workers and farmers. She had a powerful voice and charismatic

speaking style. In this speech, Lease gave a speech to the Women’s Christian

Temperance Union in 1890, a women’s movement against alcohol.

 Guided Questions

1.  Sourcing: Who wrote this? When?

2.  Contextualization: What was going on for farmers at the time? Lease is

a woman who is speaking to a group of women. What does this say

about women’s involvement in politics in the 1890s?

3. Close reading:

Read first paragraph:  How is this supposed to make

the audience feel? Why might she use religious references?

Read second and third paragraphs: How was this supposed

to make the audience feel? Who are the good guys? Who are the bad

guys? What emotions does she appeal to?

Read final paragraph: How was this supposed to make the audience feel?

 

Document B: William Jennings Bryan, 1896 (Modified)

The merchant at the corner store is as much a businessman as the

merchant of New York. The farmer who goes forth in the morning and toils

all day...is as much a businessman as the man who [works on Wall Street].

We come to speak for this broader class of businessmen....It is for these

that we speak. We are fighting in the defense of our homes and our

families. We have petitioned, and our petitions have been scorned. We

have entreated, and our entreaties have been disregarded. We have

begged, and they have mocked us.

We beg no longer; we entreat no more; we petition no more. We defy

them!

You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold

standard. I tell you that the great cities rest upon these broad and fertile

prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will

spring up again as if by magic. But destroy our farms and the grass will

grow in the streets of every city in this country.

Having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests and

all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard

by saying to them: you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this

crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Source: The speech above was delivered by William Jennings Bryan at the

Democratic National Convention in July 1896. It is considered one of the most

famous speeches in American history. The passage is an excerpt.

Guided Questions

 

1. Sourcing: Where is Bryan speaking? What is his purpose?

2. Context: Based on the speech, how do you think farmers and workers were

feeling about business and industry? Find a quote to support your answer.

3. Close reading: What is the main point of his speech?

4. Close reading: What makes the speech so powerful? Pick the line that you

think is most powerful and explain your choice.

5. Corroboration: What are two similarities between this speech and the speech

by Mary Elizabeth Lease.

Conclusion

 

1. Why were the speakers like Lease and Bryan popular in the 1890s?

2. What images and rhetorical devices did they use to excite their

audiences?

3.  How did their audiences feel when they listened to these

speeches?

4.  Do these themes resonate today? Which parts of these speeches

could we expect to hear from today’s politicians? Which parts seem

outdated?

Segregation in the Late 1800's

Sharecropping usually left farmers in chronic debt.
They gave their landlords a portion of their crops as rent and
paid for goods, housing, equipment and other expenses from
the money made from the crop.  They usually ended up
owing more than they made...
 

 

Many African Americans fled the South for farms in the Midwest, like Kansas.  When the Populist Party formed, many African American farmers joined the organization.  This created a dilemma for the Democratic Party of the South who feared poor white farmers would do the same.  They resorted to using racism.  In addition, election officials began to use a variety of methods disenfranchise African American voters.

Poll tax
Literacy requirements
Grandfather clause

Discrimination was not just limited to voting. 
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
"separate but equal"

African Americans responded in various ways.
Ida Wells
Mary Church Terrell
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois

Populism

Key terms for Populism:
populism
greenback
currency
inflation v. deflation
cooperative
graduated income tax
unlimited silver coinage

What were some of the problems that farmers faced in the late 1800's?
Supply
prices
Tariffs
mortgages
shipping costs

How did Farmers hope to solve some of the problems?
money supply
The Grange
cooperatives
The Alliance
People's Party (Populists)

 

 

 

Why did the Populist Party fail?

 

Election of 1892

Election of 1896

 

Election of 1896

 

What were some of the successes of the Populist movement?

Regulation of RR

Graduated Income Tax

*note:  These were not put into effect until after the demise of the Populist Party

 

Up Next...The Progressive Movement

Immigration and Urbanization

October 24 and 27
Immigration and Urbanization Read and take notes on pages 113 - 127

Key terms:
immigrant
ethnic
nativism
tenement
political machine
party boss
graft
Social Darwinism
Americanization

Notes on Immigration:

 Why did immigrants come to America?  Look for reasons that immigrants left their "old" country (push) and reasons they wanted to come to America (pull).

Ellis Island
Angel Island
What were the similarities and differences between these two areas?

 Define "nativism" and explain how it grew at this time.
Describe the Chinese Exclusion Act.
How was the immigration experience different for Asians than Europeans?

Examine the map on page 117.
What are some specific pattern that you see about where the immigrants came from and where they settled?
What were the two largest groups of immigrants? 

October 28 and 29

ASSIGNMENT:  Writing assignment...5 paragraph essay using the following documents.  Answer the question: 
‘Why did Americans pass the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act?’




 

 Document A:  Anti-Chinese Play, 1879

If this document were your ONLY piece of evidence, how would you answer

the question: ‘Why did Americans pass the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act?’  

 

Source: The page above comes from a play called “The Chinese Must Go:” A

Farce in Four Acts by Henry Grimm, published in San Francisco, 1879. In just 

 

the first page, you will be able to see many of the common stereotypes of

Chinese immigrants in the 19th century.

 

Document B: Political Cartoon, 1871

 

If this document were your ONLY piece of evidence, how would you answer

the question: ‘Why did Americans pass the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act?’ 


Source: The cartoon was drawn by Thomas Nast for Harper’s Weekly, a 

Northern magazine. In this cartoon, we see Columbia, the feminine symbol of

  
the United States, protecting a Chinese man against a gang of Irish and

German thugs. At the bottom it says "Hands off-Gentlemen! America

means fair play for all men." 

The following link is two more documents to use as comparison.   


https://www.scribd.com/doc/98143286/Chinese-Immigration-and-Exclusion-ORIGINAL-DOCUMENTS


AFTER you have examined and taken notes on all of the documents, begin writing your essay.  Yes, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and neatness count.
You should treat this as a DBQ and use information from all documents.  Be sure to cite the documents as you use them.





 Describe immigrant life in America.
Explain Political Machines.

Industrialization and Growth in America

Industrialization assignments

study island

Moving West: Miners, Farmers, Ranchers and Native Americans.

What happened in the rest of America during the Civil War and Reconstruction era?  What were the hardships of living west of the Mississippi River?  What were the benefits?

 

 

 

Read pages 74 - 87 and take notes using the outlines.  Complete the chapter with the writing assignment on the last slide.

Use study island to review the topics studied so far.



Reconstruction

What was Lincoln's Plan?   How did his plan differ from the Radical Republicans?

Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?

How did Reconstruction finally end?



Thomas Nast and Cartoon analysis.


SAC - Structured Academic Controversy
"Were African Americans free during Reconstruction?"

Reconstruction SAC Original Documents