HW Week of 5/29/18

Hello, All:

Here is your HW for the week of 5/29:

Wednesday:
1. Carefully review the following reading.  If you have the review book, it's pages 20-31

2. Using the reading, and the slideshow "Foundations of Government," complete questions 1-24 on the following worksheet

Thursday:
1.  Read "The Constitution Tested" (Chapter 5 in the Review Book)
2.  Carefully view the SLIDESHOW, "The Constitution Tested"
3.  Complete Questions 25-33 of the Review Guide 

Friday:
1.  Review parts 1 and 2 of Thursday's HW
2.  Carefully view the slideshow, "Reconstruction" 
3.  Complete the remaining questions on the study guide.

***THERE WILL BE A MULTIPLE CHOICE REVIEW EXAM ON MONDAY 6/4/18...The questions on the exam will come directly from the review sheet***

***USE THE REGENTS REVIEW RESOURCES TO HELP YOU!***

***THIS FILE WILL ALSO BE VERY HELPFUL, to complete the study guide, and to study for the exam***

HW Tonight 5/23/18

Hello, All.

Here is your HW assignment for 5/23.

1. Watch the video below:

2.  Complete the WORKSHEET you received in class.  If you didn't get a copy, CLICK HERE. 

Exam 5/23/18 WWII

WWII Exam:
15 Matching

Atlantic Charter	Benito Mussolini	Neutrality Acts	Office of Price Administration	Adolf Hitler
Internment	Appeasement	Manhattan Project	Totalitarian	Rationing
Genocide	Lend Lease	Holocaust	Allies	Axis Powers

Multiple Choice (25):
Factors that encouraged an American policy of neutrality during the 1930s

How Congress attempted to avoid the situations that led to United States involvement in World War I during the 1930's

Purpose of the NEUTRALITY ACTS

At start of WWII, national debate focused on whether the United States should continue which foreign policy?

Purpose of: Cash and Carry, Lend-Lease, Destroyers for Bases Deal

IMMEDIATE effect of the Lend-Lease program

WHY US became involved in WWII (not Pearl Harbor)

IMMEDIATE cause of US involvement in WWII Why Japanese people were interned during WWII

Effect of Korematsu vs. United States

Why Congress voted to pay $20,000 to each of the surviving Americans of Japanese descent who were interned during World War II

How World War I and World War II brought about changes for minorities and women

Effect of the experiences of African Americans serving in the military forces during World War II

Why the ROSIE THE RIVETER poster was used

Why RATIONING was used

What the MANHATTAN PROJECT was

How President Truman JUSTIFIED the use of the atomic bomb

Study aides:

Khan Academy

Hip Hughes:  Watch "Korematsu v. US," "Pearl Harbor Explained," "Dropping the A-Bomb," "The Homefront Explained." 

HW Week of 5/14/18

MONDAY: 1. Watch the video below.

2.  Complete the worksheet  you were given at the end of class, today.  PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE A QUIZ ON THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE VIDEO TOMORROW! 

THURSDAY: 
1. Complete page 3 of the packet you received in class, on Tuesday.
2. FOR EXTRA CREDIT:
Finish the video, "America the Story of US: WWII," and answer the questions on the worksheet.

Test FRIDAY - Great Depression/New Deal/1920's

40 Multiple Choice

Here's what you need to know!

• What the contributions of Langston Hughes and Duke Ellington show about the Harlem Renaissance
• Why the 1920's are called the "Roaring 20's"
• Which change in the buying habits of American consumers occurred during the 1920's?
• Which factor contributed most to the repeal of national Prohibition in 1933?
• What National Prohibition, as authorized by the 18th Amendment, stated 
• What The Sherman Antitrust Act, the Social Security Act, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) are examples of
• major long-term result of the New Deal
• What FDR supported after he became President in 1933 
• Why conservatives opposed the New Deal 
• What was the HARLEM RENAISSANCE 
• view of government's role in the United States economy during the 1920's
• The 1925 trial of John Scopes reflects the conflict between?
• major purpose for the creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) 
• Why President Herbert Hoover's refused to provide funds for the unemployed during the Depression 
• difference between the administrations of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Herbert Hoover 
• What the Dust Bowl experiences of the Oklahoma farmers during the Great Depression demonstrated 
• During President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term, what was the greatest obstacle to his New Deal programs?
• Which groups were most helped by the Wagner Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act, passed during the New Deal?
• Langston Hughes, Bessie Smith, and Duke Ellington are most closely associated with...
• How did Franklin D. Roosevelt change the federal government's role in the economy?
• What did the repeal of national Prohibition in 1933 show?
• How did President Franklin D. Roosevelt's respond to the Supreme Court decisions that declared several New Deal laws unconstitutional?
• What was a major result of Prohibition in the United States during the 1920s?
• What was a goal of many Harlem Renaissance writers?
• What the Immigration Act of 1924 and the Sacco-Vanzetti trial were examples of 
• During the New Deal, what was the main purpose of the Agricultural Adjustment Acts? 
• What did The National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) of 1935 gave labor unions the right to do? 
• What conditions in the 1920s helped cause the Great Depression of the 1930s? 
• What was a major goal of the Government in creating the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) 
• Why movies were popular during the Great Depression

Here's some helpful study information: 

Khan Academy

The Great Depression - From the American Yawp 

Hip Hughes - 1920's

Court Packing
Hip Hughes - New Deal 

Crash Course - Depression 

Crash Course - New Deal 

USH Assignments 5/7-5/11/18

Monday Night:
1.  Continue watching the video, "America the Story of Us: Bust."


2. Complete the worksheet you received in class today.

Tuesday Night:
1. Watch 

2.  Complete the attached worksheet.  If you do not get a copy, you will have to print out a copy 

HW Assignments Week of 4/30

CLICK HERE