Context
Context for the American Revolution (1775-1783) a.k.a. causes of the Am.Rev
What is:
Taxation without representation, The Enlightenment, Proclamation Line of 1763, Sons/Daughters of Liberty, Thomas Paine's "Common Sense", Committees of Correspondence, Olive Branch Petition, Boston Massacre, Intolerable Acts, 1st and 2nd Continental Congress, etc.
Interpret the following prompt:
Evaluate the relative importance of different causes for the expanding role of the United States in the world in the period from 1865 to 1910.
What the question is asking:
Why did the US expand their role in the world from 1865-1910?
Provide 3 pieces of evidence for causes of the Civil War...
Debate over slavery, Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin", westward expansion, Compromise of 1850, Sumner-Brooks Affair, etc.
Source: Meridel Lesueur, New Masses , January 1932.
It’s one of the great mysteries of the city where women go when they are out of work and hungry. There are not many women in the bread line. There are no flop houses for women as there are for men, where a bed can be had for a quarter or less. You don’t see women lying on the floor of the mission in the free flops. They obviously don’t sleep . . . under newspapers in the park. There is no law I suppose against their being in these places but the fact is they rarely are.
Meaning:
Women unemployed, small assistance is available for them, women are invisible during the great depression, lack of attention
What is Mr. Genett's first name?
Preston. If you didn't get this one that's sad
Context for Reconstruction...
The Civil War, sectional list issues over slavery, the 13th amendment, the emancipation proclamation, etc.
Interpret the following prompt:
Explain the causes of the rise of a women’s rights movement in the period 1940–1975.
What the question is asking:
What are some factors that sparked the Second Wave of Feminism between 1940-1975?
Provide 3 pieces of outside evidence for the Roaring Twenties...
silent films, the radio, rebirth of the KKK, anti-immigration quotas, jazz age, increasing popularity of sports for entertainment, etc...
Source: Canassatego, Chief of the Onondaga Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy, speech to representatives of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, 1742.
We know our Lands are now become more valuable. The white People think we do not know their Value’ but we are sensible that the Land is everlasting, and the few Goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone… We are not well used with respect to the lands still unsold by us. Your People daily settle on these Lands, and spoil our Hunting. We must insist on your Removing them, as you know they have no Right to settle.
Meaning:
White settlers moving into Indian lands. White settlers have no right to move on their land, land treaties are not fair, westward expansion.
Who built the first time machine?
Mr. Kopitzke obviously!
Context for The New Deal and its policies...
Roaring 20s, the radio, Red Scare, silent movies, speculation, buying on margin, Stock Market Crash, Great Depression, Hoover's hands-off approach to the crash, etc.
Interpret the following prompt:
Evaluate the extent to which scientific or technological innovation changed the United States economy in the period from 1950 to 2000.
What the question is asking:
How did new science & tech innovations change the US economy from 1950 to 2000?
Provide 2 or more pieces of evidence for the New Deal...
Relief, recovery, reform, Hoover and the causes of the new deal/great depression bank, business, the stock market, alphabet agencies, agricultural distress, unemployment, Social Security, the FDIC, etc.
Source: Statutes at Large of Virginia, 1786.
Be enacted by the general Assembly, that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever… but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion.
Meaning:
No person shall be forced into religion, freedom to practice religion, and religious diversity
Where did Mr. Genett go to college?
UW-Stevens Point
Context for the United States entering WWI...
unrestricted German submarine warfare, the Zimmerman Note, Germany disobeying the Sussex Pledge, etc.
Interpret the following prompt:
Explain the reasons why a new conservatism rose to prominence in the United States between 1960 and 1989.
What the question is asking:
What factors sparked the rise of new conservatism between 1960 and 1989?
Provide 2 or more pieces of outside evidence for Jacksonian Democracy...
Indian Removal Act (1830), Second Great Awakening, Whig Party, Henry Clay, Tariff of 1828 (Tariff of Abominations), Universal Manhood Suffrage, Jackson's Veto of the Bank, etc.
Source: Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, a novel, 1900.
[Department stores] were along the line of the most effective retail organization, with hundreds of stores coordinated into one and laid out upon the most imposing and economic basis. They were handsome, bustling, successful affairs, with a host of clerks and a swarm of patrons. Carrie passed along the busy aisles, much affected by the remarkable displays of trinkets, dress goods, stationery, and jewelry. Each separate counter was a showplace of dazzling interest and attraction. She could not help feeling the claim of each trinket and valuable upon her personally.
Meaning:
Urban glamour drew rural people to the city, improved urban transportation, advertising between wants and needs, increased availability of goods to society
What time period did you look at nasty meat products and ate pretzels?
Gilded Age
Context for American Imperialism...
Gold Rush, Louisiana Purchase, westward expansion, etc.
To what extent did political parties contribute to the development of national unity in the United States between 1790 and 1840?
(to get this point, one team member has to get up and say the thesis as a speech; providing three short examples to add to their argument)
Mr. Genett will judge the thesis.
evidence can include:
Washington's Farewell Address, Louisiana Purchase, The Era of Good Feelings, Missouri Compromise, Jacksonian/Jeffersonian Democracy, Whig Party, Free Soil Party,etc.
Provide 2 or more pieces of outside evidence for American Imperialism...
open door policy, Roosevelt Corollary, Panama Canal, purchase of Alaska, gaining Hawaii, Platt Amendment, etc.
Source: Letter to Nelson Rockefeller, Republican governor of New York, February 6, 1971.
This letter is written to you by a law abiding citizen who feels she is discriminated against in favor of dope addicts and welfare cheats. I am a widow who lives alone, works every day, pays taxes and lives by the rules. I get very little from my taxes when I can no longer walk on the streets and when I am afraid in my own home. . . . Sorry this letter is not typed. My typewriter was stolen.
Meaning:
Urban danger, women/people are scared to leave homes because of crime/danger, crime rates rise in the 1960s, audience would be government officials
What score will you get on the national exam?
5!!!!!!!