Just a reminder that you will have your second quiz on "The Impening Crisis" (chapter 13)Wednesday, March 26th.
Also, we will finish the Civil War next week and will then begin our last Brinkley unit, "The Conquest of the Far West". After the far west, we will complete a small unit on geography. We will then finish the year with current events, specifically the USA presidential elections.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Sunday, March 9, 2008
College Information
Mr. Cape will be joining one of our hour classes this week. He will be talking about university/college admission.
Be sure to bring any of your questions to class.
Be sure to bring any of your questions to class.
"The Impending Crisis" Homework
The readings and questions below need to be completed by the week of March 17th. You will getthe exact due dates in class.
FYI - You will have another "pop quiz" based on the assigned readings below.
“The Impending Crisis”
chapter 13 (Brinkley)
Pages 344 - 350
1. What was the concept of Manifest Destiny? How and why was such a slogan used to justify the expansion urge of the American people in the 1840s?
2. How did Texas become available for annexation? What prevented its immediate annexation?
3. What was the history of American interest in Oregon?
4. What were the characteristics of western migrants? What problems did they face? How were these overcome?
Pages 350 - 367
1. What were the goals of President Polk? How did he solve the Oregon question?
2. What tensions emerged in the Southwest that threatened to lead the United States into war with Mexico?
3. How did the American interest in California develop?
4. What was the Compromise of 1850? How was it passed?
5. How did the Compromise of 1850 differ from the Missouri Compromise?
6. How did the issue of a transcontinental railroad help to reopen the sectional controversy? Explain.
7. What were the “immediate, sweeping, and ominous consequences” of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
8. What were the origins of the Dred Scott case? What issues were involved, and what decision was handed down by the Court? How did the reaction to this case add to sectional tension?
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Books of Possible Interest
A few of you have asked me about some possible history/cultural studies books to read outside of class. Below you will find a list of some various books.
Books by David McCullough:
John Adams
1776
Books by Ronald Takaki:
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
Race at the End of History
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
A Pro-Slavery Crusade
Violence in the Black Imagination
Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America
Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb
Debating Diversity: Clashing Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America
A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity with Voices
Books by Howard Zinn:
A People's History of the United States: 1492 – Present
Postwar America: 1945 – 1971
Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal
Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century
SNCC: The New Abolitionists
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
Other Books:
A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present by Ward Churchill
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Books by David McCullough:
John Adams
1776
Books by Ronald Takaki:
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
Race at the End of History
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
A Pro-Slavery Crusade
Violence in the Black Imagination
Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America
Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb
Debating Diversity: Clashing Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America
A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity with Voices
Books by Howard Zinn:
A People's History of the United States: 1492 – Present
Postwar America: 1945 – 1971
Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal
Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century
SNCC: The New Abolitionists
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
Other Books:
A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present by Ward Churchill
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Two Voice Poem
I hope everyone is well rested and ready to begin our final trimester of the 2007 - 2008 school year.
Just a reminder that your Two Voice Poem is due on Wednesday, March 19. Be sure to include two different perspectives. For example, you could write about an Enslaved African American Woman and a Factory Worker or a Cherokee Woman and a Government Employee. You could be as creative as you like as long as you include accurate details explaining both perspectives.
Also, we will continue with the Civil War when we return from break. Then, we will begin Westward Expansion. You will have one more DBQ before the year ends.
Just a reminder that your Two Voice Poem is due on Wednesday, March 19. Be sure to include two different perspectives. For example, you could write about an Enslaved African American Woman and a Factory Worker or a Cherokee Woman and a Government Employee. You could be as creative as you like as long as you include accurate details explaining both perspectives.
Also, we will continue with the Civil War when we return from break. Then, we will begin Westward Expansion. You will have one more DBQ before the year ends.