American Identity and American Dream
What are MULTIPLE POINTS OF VIEW?
This was a CAUSE of the Second Industrial Revolution:
GEOGRAPHIC
What is more land for expansion across the country,
DEMOGRAPHIC
What is Large increases in population due to immigration as well as more food and people?
LEGAL/POLITICAL
The US made policies that further fueled development across the country?
During the 1920’s, the clash between science and religious fundamentalism resulted in the:
What is the SCOPES TRIAL?
This is the main DIFFERENCE between an immigrant and a migrant.
WHAT IS:
- Immigrants move somewhere permanently, migrants do not?
This is the Heisman Trophy winner for the 2024 NCAA football season
Who is TRAVIS HUNTER?
This is the common values and shared belief in individual freedom that define America.
What is the AMERICAN IDENTITY?
or: HISTORIOGRAPHY?
This was a POSITIVE effect of the Second Industrial Revolution.
WHAT IS:(Economic) economic growth for the country as a whole? (Not individual workers), Access to consumer goods at lower prices, (Innovation) access to new technologies and transportation, urban development.
FDR used this format when communicating with the American People.
What are FIRESIDE CHATS?
The belief that God wanted the USA to spread their territory from coast to coast.
What is MANIFEST DESTINY?
This song spent the most weeks at #1 on the Billboard "Hot 100" in 2024.
What is "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" by Shaboozey?
This is the ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American.
What is the AMERICAN DREAM?
These were journalists (including Jacob Riis) who often wrote scandalous articles about large corporations to expose corruption against common workers.
What are Muckrakers?
Describe TWO New Deal projects, what they did, and if they were reform/relief/recovery.
Answers will vary?
CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS (CCC)
THE GLASS-STEAGALL ACT and the FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORP. (FDIC)
FEDERAL EMERGENCY RELIEF ADMIN (FERA)
AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT (AAA)
NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY ACT (NIRA or NRA)
PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATION (PWA)
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (SEC)
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION (SSA)
TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY (TVA)
WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION (WPA)
FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT of 1938 (FLSA)
FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION of 1934 (FHA)
RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION ACT (RFCA)
U.S. TRAVEL BUREAU (TB)
CIVIL WORKS ADMINISTRATION (CWA)
NATIONAL YOUTH ADMINISTRATION (NYA)
PUBLIC WORKS OF ART PROJECT (PWAP)
FEDERAL WRITERS PROJECT (FWP)
FEDERAL MUSIC PROJECT (FMP)
FEDERAL THEATER PROGRAM (FTP)
BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION (BPA)
INDIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS BOARD (1935)
TREASURY RELIEF ART PROJECT (TRAP)
The USA government's policy of ASSIMILATION causes these to become popular educational centers for Native Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries.
What are INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOLS?
This MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY recently went through a revolution that replaced Bashar al Asaad, a dictator who had rules for 24 years.
What is SYRIA?
DAILY DOUBLE:
This is an example of something that potentially PREVENT people from achieving the AMERICAN DREAM.
You will receive 400 points for each correct response (up to 4) and MINUS 400 for INCORRECT answers!
Answers will vary: could include
- immigration status, racist laws, parents' income level, parents' education level, many other answers!
This concept, related to purchasing products to help gain "The American Dream," began during the Industrial Revolution (or before) and continues to this day.
What is CONSUMERISM?
DAILY DOUBLE: With your group, write down TWO CAUSES and TWO EFFECTS (with correct SPRITE label) of the Great Depression.
What are:
CAUSES:
(Economic) Stock Market Crash, Buying on credit, buying on margin, overproducts, reduction of consumer spending, (Evironmental) Dust Bowl,
EFFECTS:
(Economic) Widespread unemployment, (social) Hoovervilles - Homelessness, New Deal (FDR), etc
The "GOLDEN SPIKE" ceremony signified the completion of this major US Infrastructure in (Utah in 1869).
What is the TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD?
This body of water provides water for over 40 million people in seven states and part of Mexico.
What is THE COLORADO RIVER?
DAILY DOUBLE: Please turn in a piece of paper with your BID (0, 500, or 1000) and answer in the next 45 seconds!
What is the musician below's PERSPECTIVE on the American Dream?
"It's a big ole country with countless dreams
Happiness ain't out of reach
Hard work pays off the way it should
Yeah, I've seen enough to know that we've got it good
Where the stars and stripes and the eagle fly!
What is a POSITIVE viewpoint of achieving the American Dream?
This is the major faction (group) that advocated for what would later become the 18th Amendment
Who are the PROGRESSIVES?
Also accepted: The Temperance Movement?
The various "Alphabet Programs" of the New Deal typically aimed to "fix" the country in one of these THREE ways. (need all three to get correct)
What are RELIEF, RECOVERY, and REFORM?
The large influx (growth) of immigration to the USA from 1880 to 1910 came from this part of the world (and/or countres)
(Name part of the world or two countries)
What is Southern/Eastern Europe?
Italy/Poland/Russia/Greece/Hungary?
These are the only two AI Platforms that have been cleared for use by Durango 9-R students.
What is SCHOOLAL and GEMINI?