US History
This is a survey course that provides students with an investigation of important political, economic, and social developments in American history from the pre-colonial time period to the present day. Students will be engaged in activities that call upon their skills as historians (i.e. recognizing cause and effect relationships, various forms of research, expository and persuasive writing, reading of primary and secondary sources, comparing and contrasting important ideas and events).
Essay analysis
Andrea Sherwood Mr. Grunder APUSH 30 April 2012 Essay Analysis: Culture Time period: 1875 and 1925 Key words: Analyze, primary causes, population shift, rural to an urban, environment Organizational Chart: Ernest Hemmingway Scott Fitzgerald Farwell to arms, depicts dissatisfaction of the war Great Gatsby-the corruption of the American Dream. The Sun also Rises in this case, it describes a young boy alienated from society because of his involvement in World War I Also isolation is a theme in Great Gatsby The rolling hills of Africa, Hemingway compares American culture to that of another All around dissatisfaction, wealthy or poor Generalizations: a) The works of Ernest Hemmingway show dissatisfaction with American Society.
Ap US history Essay annalysis
Andrea Sherwood Mr. Grunder APUSH 30 April 2012 Essay Analysis: Politics and Citizenship Time period: Between 1960?s and 1970?s Key words: Describe, account, changes as symbolized, address, power of presidency, role of media Organizational Chart: Kennedy?s Camelot Johnsons Great Society Nixon?s Watergate Diverted nuclear war with Soviet during Cuban missile crisis. Medicare Watergate inccident Area Redevelopment act Economic Opportunity Act: provided vocation training Funding cutbacks crippled the programs created in the previous presidency?s Signed Nuclear test Ban treaty War on Poverty ?Nixon Recessions? Education bill not passed Elementary and Secondary Education Act New frontier not passed Generalizations:
1920s
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FDR
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 32nd President (1933-1945)? Born on January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, New York Died April 12, 1945 in Warm springs, Georgia Political party=Democratic Used thepopular song ?Happy Days Are Here Again? as his campaign theme for election against Herbert Hoover in 1932 Attended Groton School (an Episcopal boarding school in Massachusetts) and learned that children of upper class (like himself) had a duty to society Graduated Harvard College in 1903 with a Bachelors of Art degree and an LL.D in corporate law Became 44thgovernor of New York Married his fifth cousin, once removed, Eleanor Roosevelt and had six children (Anna Eleanor, James, Franklin Jr I., Elliott, Franklin Jr. II, and John Aspinwall)
APUSH
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Colonial Times Vocabulary
Town meetings A purely democratic form of government common in the colonies, and the most prevalent form of local government in New England. In general, the town?s voting population would meet once a year to elect officers, levy taxes, and pass laws. John Peter Zenger trial Zenger published articles critical of British governor William Cosby. He was taken to trial, but found not guilty. The trial set a precedent for freedom of the press in the colonies. Glorious Revolution, 1688
imperialism
Kelechi Okoroma 03/27/2012 Mrs. Clark 2nd block/ B-Day Imperialism
Salem Witch Trials
Constitution
Mina Afayee March 21, 2012 APUSH DBQ: Constitution The States and the Federal Government
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