1/16/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Reluctant Conquerors...")
2)  Test 6 Prep Information
3)  Finish yesterday's video
--Discuss/hand in notes

4)  Homework: Ray Allen Billington reading in Blue Reader ("The Frontier and the American Character")
Focus your reading on:  Frederick Jackson Turner and his "Frontier Thesis"

TEST PREP QUESTIONS:
1)  In what ways were the following men and events both significant and controversial in the last sixteen months of the Civil War?
a) The use of African-American troops
b) Ulysses S. Grant
c) The Shenandoah Campaign
d) William Tecumseh Sherman

2)  From a modern historical perspective, what were the major achievements and disappointments of Radical Reconstruction? 





Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Nixon Years") and ("An Economy of Diminished Expectations")
2)  Test 6 Prep Information
3)  Watergate Assignment
--Read pages 267-276 in books provided
--Answer questions from sheet provided
--Graded Discussion

4)  Homework: Textbook, pages 887-889; 892-904 ("Reform and Reaction in the 1970s") and ("Politics in the Wake of Watergate")
Focus your reading on:  a) Three Mile Island  b) Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)  c)  Roe vs. Wade  d)  "Modern" political campaigning  e) Gerald Ford's problems as president  f) Jimmy Carter's "outsider" campaign and leadership style  g) Camp David Accords  h) Soviet invasion of Afghanistan  i) Iranian Hostage Crisis 

TEST PREP QUESTIONS:

1)  Some Americans look back on the 1950s with nostalgia and see this period as America at its best, the norm to which the U.S. should return.  In what ways were the years between 1945 and 1960 unusually prosperous?  On the other hand, what realities were hidden by the optimism of those years?
2)  What were the critical events of 1968 that have caused some historians to refer to it as a "year of shocks"?