Link to notes
All Posts (75055)
Sort by
Monday -
- Go Over Presentations
Tuesday -
- Go Over Presentations
Wednesday -
- Present
Thursday -
- Go Over Test Review
Friday -
2/5- started presentations
FDR's Brain Trust- the name for his advisors such as Harry Hopkins, Frances Perkins(Sec. of Labor and first female in the cabinet), and Louis Lowe.
Farmers-
- REA(Rural Electrification Administration)
- Gave light, running water,
MONDAY-
Bonus Expeditionary Force- soldiers (WWI) get a bonus but later but they want it early. Go to DC. Marching and waiting to see what happens. Court said wait. Fight broke out. Brought soldiers in. 2 people killed. MacArthur, Eisenhower, & Patton
Monday - Bonus Expeditionary Force - Dough Boys - Wanted early bonus. Congress decides to wait till 1945. Many were mad.
FDR'S Brain Trust - Nicknamed advisors (Smart people)
- Frances Perkins - Sec. of Labor and first female in the cabinet
Fireside
Presentations
Monday- Today I took the map test and got 100%! We also went over country projects. This was a very short day.
Tuesday- Today we just did extra work as the other people took the test.
Wednesday- Today we talked about how the dow jones has been going d
Monday- We had a class quiz. Then Europe Presenations.
Tuesday- European Map Test.
Wednesday- Presenting Europian Presentations. Talked about Dow Jones how it drmatically dropped.
Thursday- The last two presenations went. We talked about the Govermen
All week- Notes
Monday-
Norman Conquest 1066
- Normans defeat Harold and the Anglo-Saxons in the Battle of Hastings
- William unified the country of England
- English Kings tried to Achieve two goals
- They wanted to hold and add to their French lands
- They wanted to strenghten t
2/5/18
We took the class quiz on the remaining countries and capitols that we have just learned. We discussed peoples opinion of Trump and about the investigation against him. Most people just dont know what is fake news and who they should trust anym
Monday: Map quiz. Talked about Trump and the investigation. Than presentation.
Tuesday: Map Test and Central America, Caribbean, Mexico.
Wednesday:Talked about weekly blogs and some news breifly.. than moved on to presentations.
Thursday: Presentations,
Monday- Causes and Vicious Cycle of Great Depression
-Hoovervilles
-Hopping trains, Dust Bowl, Okies (to California)
-Herbert Hoover- He tried, but philosophies of high tariffs and small government didn't work. Hoover passed Federal Farm Board, Norris-L
- New Deal Programs
- Rural Electrification Act
- Rural Americans not having access to electricity
- May 20th, 1936
- Provided electricity close to the Midwest
- Gave Americans a 'fair chance'
- After FDR died 90% had electricity
- Senators from several states teamed up
- Sti
Monday-
The new eal
Relief, Reform and Recovery
SOil conservation and Domestic Allotment Act
Key Terms
Buying on credit
Republican Philosophy-Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
Laissez-faire-rugged individualism, trickle down theory
Stock
Stock market
Dow Jones Indus
Tuesday-
“Pink Collared” Jobs-1920’s-70’s
Gave women a taste of the work world.
Low paying service occupations
Made less money than men did doing the same jobs
EX
- Secretaries
- Teachers
- Telephone operators
- Nurses
The Flapper
Short hair
Short dresses
Shapeless dre
Friday-
Science was a struggle between the modern scientific people and the Christian fundamentalists
Fundamentalists believed everything could be explained by the Bible.
They Disagreed with the theory of evolution
The Scopes Monkey Trial
In 1925, Tennes
Monday-
What did the US do to ensure that communism didn't take over the US?
The Palmer raids
-The Palmer raids were a series of raids conducted by the department of Justice to capture and arrest suspected radicals and deport them from the US
-The raids
