Monday 2-19-18I can explain how World War I and its aftermath intensified ongoing debates about the nation’s role in the world and how best to achieve national security and pursue American interests.

I can explain how participation in a series of global conflicts propelled the United States into a position of international power while renewing domestic debates over the nation’s proper role in the world.

Agenda Homework1. Review/Overview AP 31, pt. 12. Backstory Podcast Investigation3. Two Minute Drill (see website)4. Essay Writing: the Introduction

1. Read! Think! Ask Questions!Work on:2. Backstory Presentation (due Monday 2-26)3. Two Minute Drill (due Wednesday 2-21)

Prompt 110

1. Describe the context for each of the following sources.2. Explain one continuity and one change represented by the following sources:

A.

B.

C.

APUSH Reading Notes – Chapter 31:American Life in the “Roaring Twenties”

I. The United States in the 1920s: Shunned diplomatic commitments Denounced “radical” foreign ideas Condemned “un-American” lifestyles Shut immigration gates

II. Economic Boom: New technologies, New consumer products, New forms of leisure

III. Anxiety

Seeing Red -- “Red Scare”Billy Sunday -- A. Mitchell Palmer -- Buford (“Soviet Ark”)Free speech – denial of seats in the state legislatures (Victor L. Berger)Management and Labor (closed v. open shops)Sacco and Vanzetti (“judicial lynching” – “class struggle”)

Hooded Hoodlums of the KKK KKK – targeted Blacks, Catholics, Jews, pacifists, Communists, Modernists, etc. (Know-Nothings)

Stemming the Foreign Flood Emergency Quota Act, 1921 (quota=3% of nationality living in US by 1910) Immigration Act, 1924 (quota=2% of nationality living in US by 1890, No Japanese)The Prohibition Experiment (the “noble experiment”)Prohibition (18th Amendment – Volstead Act)Jazz Age – speakeasies – rumrunners – blind tigersProhibition = Gangsters (Al Capone)

Scopes Trial/Education in the 1920s John Dewey = Progressive (like Horace Mann, Noah Webster - Second Great Awakening) [Freedmen’s Bureau] Rockefeller Foundation – hookworm (Captains of Industry – Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister)Fundamentalists v. Modernists [Debate over Darwinism, Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll v. Billy Sunday]Scopes Trial

Mass Consumption Economy Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon – Automobile – Bruce BartonAutomobileHenry Ford – Model TFrederick W. Taylor – “Taylorism” = production efficiency

Gasoline AgeCars impact on other industries (rubber, glass, fabrics, road building, garages, etc.) (Economics called externalities)Markets (expanded) – social changes (churches, schools, young people)Airplane [Airplanes impact on the world (ESP)]1903 – Wright Brothers – World War I – passenger lines/airmail contracts (gov. subsidy)1927 – Charles a Lindbergh

The Radio Revolution 1890s – Marconi, wireless telegraphy1920 – KDKA, Pittsburgh, broadcast Harding’s victory

Hollywood’s Filmland Fantasies 1903 = The Great Train Robbery / 1915 = The Birth of a Nation / 1927 = The Jazz Singer

The Dynamic Decade (Changes in American lifestyles and values)1920 Census, America = urban, not rural“woman’s work” = low-paying clerical and household-type workMargaret Sanger/birth control – flappers – Sigmund FreudFundamentalists v. Modernists debate

Jazz Harlem Renaissance – Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues (Claude McKay, Zora Neal Hurston)Marcus Garvey, United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Black Star Line Steamship Co. [American Colonization Society] – [Nation of Islam] – [Washington – Du Bois]

Cultural Liberation Shift from Protestant New Englanders to ethnic and regional writersSpokesman of the Modern = H.L. Mencken, American MercuryF. Scott Fitzgerald – Ernest Hemingway – Sinclair Lewis – William FaulknerEzra Pound – T.S. Eliot – Robert FrostFrank Lloyd Wright – Empire State Building

Wall Street’s Big Bull MarketSignals of the coming crash: failing banks, land speculation, stock market speculation (“on the margin”)Federal Government’s response? Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon, tax cutsNational Debt: 1914 = $1.2 billion – 1921 = $24 billion (Melon’s policies reduced debt to about $16 bil)

Podcast Report

1. Review the lists of podcasts from Backstory. Start with the OLDEST episodes (2010) and work your way forward.

2. Pick THREE episodes you are interested in listening to, digging deeper into and reporting back to the class on. The episodes need to inform your understanding of US History and help prepare you for the APUSH exam.

3. Write a paragraph for each episode in which you are interested, explaining your interest. Include reasons how you think the episode will help you prepare for the APUSH exam.

Podcast Report – Part 2

1. Listen to your assigned podcast.

2. Take notes on your podcast.

Base your notes on the distinct sections of the podcast Note the names of people interviewing and being interviewed What are the main points? Evidence? What are the connections with APUSH? (Be specific, look at the Curriculum Guide!)

Podcast Report – Part 3

Product: A scripted 10-15 minute presentation on your Backstory podcast

1. Create a presentation that addresses each of the show’s segments.

Your PowerPoint/Slides should include a slide per segment. Each slide is limited to no more than 2 images and 10 words, When possible, your presentation should explicitly include information from the

“Resources” section. You must have a script for your presentation.

2. Presentation

All team members must participate 10-15 minutes (10 minute minimum and 14 maximum) Poise Appearance

3. Generate and Model 5 historical connections based on your episode.

APUSH Period 7: 1890-1945

A. Growth expanded opportunity, while economic instability led to new efforts to reform U.S. society and its economic system.

B. The United States continued its transition from a rural, agricultural economy to an urban, industrial economy led by large companies.

C. In the Progressive Era of the early 20th century, Progressives responded to political corruption, economic instability, and social concerns by calling for greater government action and other political and social measures.

D. During the 1930s, policymakers responded to the mass unemployment and social upheavals of the Great Depression by transforming the U.S. into a limited welfare state, redefining the goals and ideas of modern American liberalism.

E. Innovations in communications and technology contributed to the growth of mass culture, while significant changes occurred in internal and international migration patterns.

F. Popular culture grew in influence in U.S. society, even as debates increased over the effects of culture on public values, morals, and American national identity.

G. Economic pressures, global events, and political developments caused sharp variations in the numbers, sources, and experiences of both international and internal migrants.

H. Participation in a series of global conflicts propelled the United States into a position of international power while renewing domestic debates over the nation’s proper role in the world.

I. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, new U.S. territorial ambitions and acquisitions in the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific accompanied heightened public debates over America’s role in the world.

J. World War I and its aftermath intensified ongoing debates about the nation’s role in the world and how best to achieve national security and pursue American interests.

K. U.S. participation in World War II transformed American society, while the victory of the United States and its allies over the Axis powers vaulted the U.S. into a position of global, political, and military leadership.

Reading Schedule for 2018

2/1/18 – Th American Pageant 654-665 (Chapter 28)2/2/18 – F American Pageant 665-678 (Chapter 28)2/5/18 – M GL Reading Women and the Progressive Movement (12 pages)2/6/18 – T American Pageant 679-688 (Chapter 29)2/7/18 – W American Pageant 688-695 (Chapter 29)2/8/18 - Th GL Reading The Politics of Reform (5 pages)

GL Reading The Square Deal (8 pages)2/9/18 – F APUSH Test #11 (28-29)2/12 – M American Pageant 696-706 (Chapter 30)

Start reading Zinn 14 “War is the Health of the State”2/13 – T American Pageant 707-719 (Chapter 30)2/14 – W Finish Zinn 14 “War is the Health of the State”2/15 – Th GL Reading World War I2/16 – F APUSH Test #12 (30)

2/19/18 – M American Pageant 720-7322/20/18 – T American Pageant 732-7452/21/18 – W Zinn APHOTU 377-387 / American Pageant 746-7502/22/18 – Th Zinn APHOTU 387-397 / American Pageant 751-7552/23/18 – F Zinn APHOTU 397-406 / American Pageant 755-7602/26/18 – M American Pageant 760-7692/27/18 – T Review2/28/18 – W American Pageant 770-7783/1/18 – Th American Pageant 778-7913/2/18 – F APUSH Test #13 (31-32)3/5/18 – M American Pageant 792-7993/6/18 – T Review / Essay Workshop3/7/18 – W Test #14 (33 and parts of 31&32)3/8/18 – 3/9/18 Spring Break3/12/18 – M AP 800 - 820 (chapter 34)3/13/18 – T AP 821 – 8283/14/18 – W AP 828 - 8383/15/18 – Th AP 838 – 8493/16/18 – F Review / Essay Workshop (END of Grading Period)3/19/18 – M Test #15 (34-35)3/20/18 – T AP 850 – 8623/21/18 – W AP 862 – 8723/22/18 – Th AP 872 – 881 (chapter 36)3/23/18 – F AP 882 – 8903/26/18 – M AP 890 – 8973/27/18 – T AP 897 – 908 (chapter 37)

3/28/18 – W Review3/29/18 – Th Test #16 (36-37)3/30/18 – F Holiday4/2/18 – M Teacher Workday4/3/18 – T AP 909 – 9244/4/18 – W AP 924 – 937 (chapter 38)4/5/18 – Th AP 938 – 9524/6/18 – F AP 952 – 965 (chapter 39)4/9/18 – M AP 966-9794/10/18 – T AP 979-988 (chapter 40)4/11/18 – W AP 989-998 (chapter 41) & AMSCO 304/12/18 –Th Review4/13/18 – F APUSH Review4/16/18 – M Test #17 (38-41)4/17/18 – T APUSH Review4/18/18 – W APUSH Review4/19/18 –Th APUSH Review4/20/18 – F APUSH Review4/23/18 – M APUSH Final Exam Part 14/24/18 – T APUSH Final Exam Part 24/25/18 – W APUSH Review4/26/18 –Th APUSH Review4/27/18 – F APUSH Review4/30/18 – M APUSH Review5/1/18 – T APUSH Review5/2/18 – W APUSH Review5/3/18 –Th APUSH Review5/4/18 – F APUSH Review5/7/18 – M APUSH Review

AP Psychology Exam (Afternoon)5/8/18 – T APUSH Review5/9/18 – W APUSH Review5/10/18 –Th APUSH Review

AP Environmental Science (Afternoon)5/11/18 – F AP United States History (Morning)