4/4/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Coming of the Great Depression")
2)  Video: "1929-36: Stormy Weather"
--Take 1 page of notes

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 699; 701-707 ("Hard Times")
Focus your reading on:  Examples of how the Depression affected people who lived through it


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Presidential Reconstruction") and ("Radical Reconstruction")
2)  Go over Test 3 Prep Sheet:
a)  Did Andrew Jackson use the power of his office wisely and/or justly in dealing with the following issues?

• The role of the Second Bank of the United States
• The tariff and nullification crisis
• The status of Native Americans

b)  In what ways were the following men and events both significant and controversial in the last sixteen months of the Civil War?

• The use of African-American troops
• Ulysses S. Grant
• The Shenandoah Campaign
• William Tecumseh Sherman

3)  Go over yesterday's video notes
4)  Reading/questions/graded discussion:  "The Subjugation of the Native Americans in the West"
a)  Reading: "I Will Fight No More Forever"
b)  4 questions:  Work Day

4)  Homework: Textbook, pages 442-445; 448-450 ("The Undoing of Reconstruction")
Focus your reading on:  a) Sharecropping  b) Election of 1876/Rutherford B. Hayes