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"With Malice towards none" || * The politics and economics of REconstruction AFTER SCHOOL: group exam review ||  || Test format includes both multiple-choice and essay questions to be complete in class Chapters 20-22 || Essay Five: "Give one reason to explain why you agree or one reason to explain why you disagree with each of the following statements relating to the United States economy: a. The small businessman must inevitably dissappear. b. The Sherman and Clayton Antitrust laws have proved effective. c. Since the consumer benefits from competition between corporations, he does not need the protection of the government d. Corporation executives today are showing concern for the overall welfare of America Society." || Quiz 24 || a. //All Men and Women are Created Equal,// by Constance Rynder (The Seneca Falls Convention) b. //Seneca Falls Declaration of Women's Rights// c. In class biographies of Sarah Hale, Julia Ward Howe, Leonora Marie Kearney, Susan B. Anthony, Mary Elizabeth Lease, Jeanette Rankin and Carrie Cott. Video Selections Lady Gaga on Women's rights //Iron jawed angels// Pair share and class presentations ||  || Self Start: half of the class will read Frederick Jackson Turner's //The Significance of the Frontier in American History.// The other half will read William Jennings Bryan's //Cross of Gold s//peech. a. The third-party movment in the West and South in the late 19th century took the form of agraian revolt. b. The conversion of American agriculture to a commercial basis has made the farmer a speicalist c. Unlike the manufacturer, the farmer has no control over this market or prices. d. Instead of benefiting from the technological revolution in agriculture since World War II, the farmer has been a victim. AFTER SCHOOL REVIEW for exam seven ||  || (TR on the World Stage) || Self Start: //What is a Progessive//, by Theodore Roosevelt
 * Day || Topic || Material/ Reading/Homework/Assignments || Assessment ||
 * 41 || The Ordeal of Reconstruction
 * Experiences of Freedom
 * The rise of the Bourbon South
 * The fate of reconstruction
 * Impeachment politics and balance of power || Quiz 22 ||
 * 42 || The ordeal of Reconstruction || Self- Start: Civil War amendments and their lasting power
 * Southern Reaction to Reconstruction
 * Rise of the KKK
 * America's First Movie - //Birth of a nation// ||  ||
 * 43 ||  || In class DBQ: //The Gettysburg Address//
 * 44 ||  ||   || Exam 6
 * 45 || Political Paralysis of the Guilded Age || * The rise of big buisiness
 * the role of big business in politics
 * class and ethnic conflict
 * the rise of JIm Crow
 * Populism Pupulists and Progressives
 * Civil srevice reform || Quiz 23 ||
 * 46 || Political Paralysis of the Guilded Age || * Class conflicts and ethnic clashes~then and today ||  ||
 * 47 || Industry Comes of Age || Self Start: selected readings from //The Jungle,// by Upton Sinclair
 * Era of the Rober Barons
 * The lives of the working classes and the growth of unionism
 * Government and the politics of regulation
 * The United States in the world economy
 * America Industrial Revolution
 * 48 || Industry Comes of Age || * Rise of labor unions and their affect on American government and politics in 2012 ||  ||
 * 49 || America Moves to the City || * Urbanization
 * New waves of immigration
 * Renewed instances of nativism
 * Cultural life in urban America
 * the "New Woman"
 * African American push for expanded civil rights
 * Problems of American urbanization ||  ||
 * 50 || America's class struggles: the history of the role of Women in America || Self Start: read and be prepared to share the essntial understandings of one of the following readings
 * 51 || The Great West of the Agricultural Revolution || Essay Five due!
 * The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution
 * The close of the Frontier and its impact
 * Industrialiazation of agriculture and political dissent among farmers || Quiz 26 ||
 * 52 || Empire and Expansion: history of the Native Americans ||  ||   ||
 * 53 || Empire and Expansion || * Empire and Expansion
 * America Expansion overseas
 * a new age of imperialism
 * Spanish-American War
 * The Open Door
 * America on the world stage || Quiz 27 ||
 * 54 || Spanish America War and and the role of press, yellow journalism today || Self Sart: selected examples of yellow journalism from the past and the present
 * Sinking of the Maine
 * WMDs ||  ||
 * 55 ||  || In class group essay and presentations. Each team will prepare on portion of the following essay and present it to the entires class. "Use historical to support or to refute each of the following statements:
 * 56 ||  ||   || EXAM 7 The exam will include multiple choice questions to be completed in class Chapters 23-27 ||
 * 57 || Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt


 * Progessivism and the Republican Roosevelt
 * Progressive reform and the trusts
 * demographics of urbanization and the resulting political impact
 * Dollar Diplomacy
 * Environmantal issues || Quiz 28 ||
 * 58 || Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad || Self Start: selected writings of Theodore Roosevelt

[|The Negro and the new freedom] [|The Lion and the Fox] || Quiz 29 ||
 * The New Freedom vs New Nationalism
 * Progressive economic reform
 * Diplomacy of neutrality
 * Recent Scholarship: Wilsonianism, Idealism, Pragmatism
 * Wilsoniamism v Roosevelt Progressivism
 * 59 || The War to End War || Self Start: Political cartoons of the First World War
 * Cause and Effect that started the War
 * War in Europe
 * War on the home front
 * Propaganda and civil liberties
 * The politics behind the making of the Treaty of Versailles (Rejection by the US Senate)
 * Wilson and the Progressive Era ||  ||
 * 60 || American Life in the Roaring Twenties || * American life in the Roaring Twenties
 * The Red Scare & immigration issues
 * The mass consumption economy (conspicuous Consupmtion)
 * The Jazz age and Harlem Renaissiance
 * Traditionalism v Modernism || Quiz 31 ||