Today is Monday, the first day back after our Thanksgiving break. Tomorrow is already the first day of December! Today Mr. Bruns started off by talking about our semester blog. The blog will be worth 10% of our grade. The test is worth 100 points. Pictures are not required. The topics of the blog are on the US History message board under the heading "Essentials for US History. Here they are:1. Students will understand the impact the Industrial Revolution had on the United States.2. Students will understand the impact immigration and urbanization had on the United States.3. Students will understand the impact of the Progressive Era on the United States.4. Students will understand the impact imperialism had on the United States and world.5. Students will understand the causes for US involvement in World War I and the effects it had on the United States.6. Students will understand the political, social and economic changes that occurred in the 1920’s in the United States.7. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Great Depression.Tomorrow and Wednesday we will be taking our oral tests over chapter 9 and 10. During this time we will begin our new projects of chapters 12, 13, and 14. We may have class time on Thursday to work on them. The last several days of the semester will be dedicated to presenting. For the project, we will be assigned to six different topics. We will need to research these topics and make a powerpoint or slideshow about said topic. The project is worth 100 points. The rubric is basically the same as any other project that we have ever done in this class. About the only changes to it are to be creative, innovative, and to engage the audience in the presentation. We must have at least three sources per groups. Erin and I are a group. Here are the project topics.1920’s:Political Changes:Chapter 12, Section 1 – nativism, isolationism, communism – red scare, anarchists, limiting immigration, KKK, quota system, labor unrest – strikes, John L. Lewis, decline of labor movementChapter 12, Section 2 – Kellog-Briand Pact, Dawes Plan, Teapot Dome Scandal - graftChapter 12, Section 4 – African American migration North, NAACP – James Weldon Johnson, Anti-lynching law – fails, Marcus Garvey - UNIAEconomic Changes:Give numerous examples of how the economy boomed throughout the 1920’sChapter 12, Section 2 – Fordney-McCumber TariffChapter 12, Section 3 – the automobile, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, road construction & related construction of infrastructure, airplanes, modern advertising, superficial prosperity, production increases – surplus of goods, installment plans – easy creditChapter 13, Section 3 – tax increases support educationSocial Changes:Chapter 12, Section 3 – automobile – impact on rural families, vacationing, independence, urban sprawl, dating; airplanes, standard of livingChapter 13, Section 1 – urbanization, prohibition, speakeasies, bootleggers, organized crime, Al Capone, rift between traditional & modern values, fundamentalism, evolution vs creationists, Scopes TrialChapter 13, Section 2 – flappers, Zelda Fitzgerald, women’s independence, double standard, new work opportunities for women, time-saving appliances, birth control methods, workplace discrimination, greater equality in marriage, childhood changes, adolescent rebelliousness, Youth in the Roaring 20’s pg. 444-445Chapter 13, Section 3 – radio, boxing, school enrollment up, more newspapers & magazines, radio entertainment, popular entertainment & sports, Lindberg’s flight, the arts, literatureChapter 13, Section 4 – Harlem Renaissance, writers, performers, musicians, Literature in the Jazz Age pg. 458-459Great Depression-1929-March 1933Causes:Chapter 14, Section 1 – struggling industries, housing starts fall, farming surplus, prices drop, farm foreclosures, price-supports fail, less consumer $, living on credit, uneven distribution of income, low standard of living for many, speculation, buying on margin, lack of regulation of the stock market, 1929 Oct 24th & Oct 29th (Black Tuesday), bank runs, bank closings, loss of savings, business bankruptcies, unemployment up, European depression, Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, tariff & war debt policies, farm crisis, easy credit, unequal distribution of income, falling demand for consumer goodsEffects:Chapter 14, Section 2 – job loss, homelessness, hunger, shantytowns, soup kitchens, bread lines, African Americans – 50% unemployment, Latinos – deportation, farm foreclosures, tenant farming, Dust Bowl, Okies – migration west, family stress, men abandoning families, hoboes, lack of direct relief, resentment towards working women, malnourished children, child welfare programs cut, school closings, child labor, “Hoover tourists”, increase in suicide & mental illness, putting off dreams & goals, avoiding future povertyResponses:Chapter 14, Section 3 – “chicken in every pot”, Hoover’s focus on optimism, belief economy would fix itself, Hoover’s belief in limited government role & opposition to direct relief, people’s frustration with government response, Hoover Dam, Democrats win, farmers protest, “Hoovervilles”, “Hoover blankets” & “Hoover flags”, Hoover backs cooperatives – Federal Farm Bureau & National Credit Corp., Federal Home Loan Bank Act, Glass-Steagall Banking Act, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, hope that $ would trickle down to the poor, Bonus Army, Patman Bill – denied, gas attack on Bonus Army.Here is the Rubric:Content is accurate and thorough. ____/25Visuals are used appropriately to support the presentation. ____/20Body language: eye contact, posture and body movement. ____/20Voice quality: rate, volume, articulation and enthusiasm . ____/15Technology is incorporated into presentation. ____/10Presentation includes creative and innovative ideas. ____/5Presentation gets audience involved in some way. ____/5TOTAL: ____/100The rest of the class period was devoted to Whitney giving her presentation about US problems with the Mexican government in the early 1900's. Mr. Bruns had done a presentation over the same thing last week so it was review with some knew things. I learned that Poncho Villa killed several dozen Americans, many of whom were killed on US soil. This obviously infuriated Americans and Woodrow Wilson, so we invaded Mexico with 15,000 troops. The Mexican president, Caranza, retaliated by clashing with the American troops with Mexican troops. Both armies backed down because of the looming World War 1. They both knew that it would be useless to fight each other and fight in the War at the same time.
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