Read Zinn 398-406
Indentify:
John Lewis
1. Discuss Louis Adamic's account of an early sit-down strike.
2. Discuss the expansion of sitdown strikes in 1936.
3. What does Zinn think about the Wagner Act? Provide evidence.
4. Discuss Zinn's feelings about the National Labor Relations Board.
5. Discuss the argument made by Cloward and Piven in the book Poor People's Movements.
6. How did WWII impact the Labor Movement?
7. How did the New Deal impact African Americans?
Friday, January 28, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Poly Gov't Midterm review pt 1 (REVISED)
Remember, it's not enough to just memorize the meanings of these terms. You will be presented with questions that require you to apply your knowledge and understanding.
Essay topics
a) The Constitutional Framers' understanding and feelings about democracy and equality
b) The Structure and nature of the Supreme Court
c) Political disagreements between Federalists and Republicans
“power of the purse”
Federalism
Federalist/anti-federalist
Electoral College
Constitutional Convention of 1787
separation of powers
John Locke
Declaration of Independence
checks and balances
House of Representatives
Senate
Articles of Confederation
Bill of Rights
Whiskey Rebellion
Shays’ Rebellion
New Jersey Plan
Virginia Plan
Connecticut Compromise
George Washington
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
Executive, legislative, judicial branches (major powers of each)
Framers of the Constitution
States rights/state sovereignty
Earl Warren/Major Justices
14th amendment
Bill of Rights
due process
equal protection
civil liberties
judicial review
XYZ Affair
Whiskey Rebellion
Alien and Sedition Acts
Election of 1796
Election of 1800
Hamilton's Financial Plan
Jay's Treaty
Barron v Baltimore
Earls v Bd of Ed
Dred Scott Decision
Writ of Certiorari
Checks and Balances
Ben Franklin
monarchy b)
theocracy
aristocracy
republic
democracy
dictatorship
state
sovereignty
economy
government
Inventing a Nation
-Major Characters
-Major Events
Supremes' Greatest Hits (Introduction)
A Kind of Revolution (Howard Zinn)
Essay topics
a) The Constitutional Framers' understanding and feelings about democracy and equality
b) The Structure and nature of the Supreme Court
c) Political disagreements between Federalists and Republicans
“power of the purse”
Federalism
Federalist/anti-federalist
Electoral College
Constitutional Convention of 1787
separation of powers
John Locke
Declaration of Independence
checks and balances
House of Representatives
Senate
Articles of Confederation
Bill of Rights
Whiskey Rebellion
Shays’ Rebellion
New Jersey Plan
Virginia Plan
Connecticut Compromise
George Washington
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
Executive, legislative, judicial branches (major powers of each)
Framers of the Constitution
States rights/state sovereignty
Earl Warren/Major Justices
14th amendment
Bill of Rights
due process
equal protection
civil liberties
judicial review
XYZ Affair
Whiskey Rebellion
Alien and Sedition Acts
Election of 1796
Election of 1800
Hamilton's Financial Plan
Jay's Treaty
Barron v Baltimore
Earls v Bd of Ed
Dred Scott Decision
Writ of Certiorari
Checks and Balances
Ben Franklin
monarchy b)
theocracy
aristocracy
republic
democracy
dictatorship
state
sovereignty
economy
government
Inventing a Nation
-Major Characters
-Major Events
Supremes' Greatest Hits (Introduction)
A Kind of Revolution (Howard Zinn)
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Democratizing 20th Century - Midterm Review
Women’s Suffrage Movement
Alice Paul
Seneca Falls
Carrie Chapman Catt
NAWSA, NWP
16, 17, 18, 19th amendments
Federal/State gov’t
Progressive era
Settlement houses, Jane Adams
Unions, AFL, IWW
Samuel Gompers
Eugene Debs
Socialism
Strikes
Taylorism
Schenk v. U. S.
Conscription act
Ema Goldman
Helen Keller
WWI, Allies, Central Powers, basic geography of War
Woodrow Wilson, 14pts , Treaty of Versailles
Spanish American War
Industrialization
Manchester
Adam Smith
Lowell, MA
Chicago
Immigration
1920s, economy of
Margaret Sanger/Birth Control Movement
Anthony Comstock
Griswold v. Connecticut
Roe v. Wade
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
14th amendment
New Deal
Franklin Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Dust Bowl
Great Depression
Motherhood, types of
WWI Bonus Army
Sacco and Vanzetti
Palmer Raids
Red Scare’
Bolshevik Revolution
J. D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford
W. E. B. DuBois
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mellon Plan
Triangle Shirtwaist Strike
Seattle General Strike
Gov't, Economic Systems
New Deal
Readings:
Zinn-Socialist Challenge, War is the Health, Self Help in Hard Times
Battle for Suffrage, Birth Control Packet, Who Built America
WWI Link
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/maps/map_images/Europe1914.gif
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/peopleevents/pande09.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/portrait/wp_suffrage.html
Alice Paul
Seneca Falls
Carrie Chapman Catt
NAWSA, NWP
16, 17, 18, 19th amendments
Federal/State gov’t
Progressive era
Settlement houses, Jane Adams
Unions, AFL, IWW
Samuel Gompers
Eugene Debs
Socialism
Strikes
Taylorism
Schenk v. U. S.
Conscription act
Ema Goldman
Helen Keller
WWI, Allies, Central Powers, basic geography of War
Woodrow Wilson, 14pts , Treaty of Versailles
Spanish American War
Industrialization
Manchester
Adam Smith
Lowell, MA
Chicago
Immigration
1920s, economy of
Margaret Sanger/Birth Control Movement
Anthony Comstock
Griswold v. Connecticut
Roe v. Wade
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
14th amendment
New Deal
Franklin Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Dust Bowl
Great Depression
Motherhood, types of
WWI Bonus Army
Sacco and Vanzetti
Palmer Raids
Red Scare’
Bolshevik Revolution
J. D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford
W. E. B. DuBois
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mellon Plan
Triangle Shirtwaist Strike
Seattle General Strike
Gov't, Economic Systems
New Deal
Readings:
Zinn-Socialist Challenge, War is the Health, Self Help in Hard Times
Battle for Suffrage, Birth Control Packet, Who Built America
WWI Link
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/maps/map_images/Europe1914.gif
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/peopleevents/pande09.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/portrait/wp_suffrage.html
Politics and Government Homework Questions
Answer the following questions; based on the introduction.
1. What is a writ certiorari? How often does the Court grant these writs?
2. What happens after the writ is granted?
3. Why did Eisenhower refer to his appointment of Warren as a mistake?
4. Discuss the statement: "The Supreme Court has no army." What does this mean? Do you think the Supreme Court should have an army? Why, why not?
1. What is a writ certiorari? How often does the Court grant these writs?
2. What happens after the writ is granted?
3. Why did Eisenhower refer to his appointment of Warren as a mistake?
4. Discuss the statement: "The Supreme Court has no army." What does this mean? Do you think the Supreme Court should have an army? Why, why not?
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Supremes' Greatest Hits Vocabulary Chapters 1-4
Redress:
- The act of correcting an error or a fault.
Grievance:
- Grudge: Resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
Diminish:
- Decrease in size, extent, or range
Immunity:
- Exemption from obligation, service, duty, or liability.
Compromise:
- To make a deal where someone gives up part of, or all of its demand.
Colossal:
- So great in size or force or extent as to bring forth awe.
Comprise:
- To consist of; be composed of
Consent:
- Accept: give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
Harrow:
- Agonizing: extremely painful
Reaffirm:
- To affirm again; to strengthen or support
Litigant:
- A party suing or being sued in a lawsuit
Colloquial:
- Characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
Concur:
- Agree: be in accord; be in agreement
Dissent:
- Dissent is a sentiment of non-agreement or opposition to an idea
Contentious:
- To dispute or disagree.
Garner:
- To earn something by one's efforts or actions
Pithy:
- Concise and full of meaning
Desegregation:
- The act of eliminating segregation
Contemplate:
- To look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought
Infallible:
- Incapable of failure or error
Prerogative:
- A right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group.
Preeminence:
- The most important; greatest
Reverberate:
- Have a long or continuing effect
Jockeyed:
- To manipulate cleverly or trickily
Entrench:
-Fix firmly or securely
Commission:
- A special group delegated to consider some matter
- Granting authority to undertake certain functions
Incensed:
- Angered at something unjust or wrong
Negate:
- To be in contradiction with; show to be false
Superlative:
- An exaggerated expression
Repugnant:
- Offensive to the mind
Kowtow:
- Bend the knees and bow in a servile manner
Consummate:
-Revealing supreme mastery or skill
Tour de force:
- A masterly or brilliant feat
Subservient:
- To serve under another person
Resonate:
- Be received or understood
Paramount:
- Having superior power and influence
Apathetic:
- Showing little or no emotion
Arbitrarily:
- In a random manner
Gerrymander:
- Divide unfairly and to one's advantage
Invoke:
- Summon into action or bring into existence
Feasible:
- Capable of being done
Pantheon:
- A monument commemorating a nation's dead heroes
Smoldering:
- Showing scarcely suppressed anger
Spectacle:
- Something or someone seen
Confiscate:
- Seizure by the government
Situated:
- Located in a specific place
Invalidate:
- Take away the legal force of or render ineffective
Emancipate:
- Give equal rights to
Fractionalize:
- To separate into parts
CHAPTER 2
Provision:
- The activity of supplying or providing something
Mandate:
- A document giving an official instruction
Nondenominational:
- Not restricted to a particular religious denomination
Inconsequential:
- Lacking worth or importance
Inconsistent:
- Displaying a lack of consistency
Inhibit:
- To put down by force or authority
Implicate:
- Bring into intimate and incriminating connection
Subsequent:
- Following in time or order
Endorse:
- Give support or one's approval
Staunch- fundamentalist:
- Strict adherer to a set of basic principles.
Irrational:
- Not consistent with or using reason
Forbade:
- Command against
Commerce:
- Transactions having the objective of supplying commodities
Ridicule:
- Language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate
Bigots:
- A prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own
Vigorous:
- Forceful and energetic action or activity
Spur:
-Incite or stimulate
Culminate:
- To reach a final or climactic stage
Unanimous:
- In complete agreement
Litigate:
- Engage in legal proceedings
Permissible:
- That may be permitted especially as according to rule
Extol:
-To praise; to make high
Mandate:
- Command or authorization to act in a particular way
Foregone:
- Well in the past
Intelligent Design:
- Assertion that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection
CHAPTER 3
Penchant:
- A strong liking
Indigent:
- Poor enough to need help from others
Avail:
- Use to one's advantage
Tedious:
- Boring
Elicit:
- Arouse
Incriminating:
- Charging or suggestive of guilt
CHAPTER 4
Contended:
- To strive in opposition
Unanimous:
- In complete agreement
Deliberate:
- Think about carefully
Impenetrable:
- Not admitting of penetration
Criterion:
- A basis for comparison
- The act of correcting an error or a fault.
Grievance:
- Grudge: Resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
Diminish:
- Decrease in size, extent, or range
Immunity:
- Exemption from obligation, service, duty, or liability.
Compromise:
- To make a deal where someone gives up part of, or all of its demand.
Colossal:
- So great in size or force or extent as to bring forth awe.
Comprise:
- To consist of; be composed of
Consent:
- Accept: give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
Harrow:
- Agonizing: extremely painful
Reaffirm:
- To affirm again; to strengthen or support
Litigant:
- A party suing or being sued in a lawsuit
Colloquial:
- Characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
Concur:
- Agree: be in accord; be in agreement
Dissent:
- Dissent is a sentiment of non-agreement or opposition to an idea
Contentious:
- To dispute or disagree.
Garner:
- To earn something by one's efforts or actions
Pithy:
- Concise and full of meaning
Desegregation:
- The act of eliminating segregation
Contemplate:
- To look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought
Infallible:
- Incapable of failure or error
Prerogative:
- A right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group.
Preeminence:
- The most important; greatest
Reverberate:
- Have a long or continuing effect
Jockeyed:
- To manipulate cleverly or trickily
Entrench:
-Fix firmly or securely
Commission:
- A special group delegated to consider some matter
- Granting authority to undertake certain functions
Incensed:
- Angered at something unjust or wrong
Negate:
- To be in contradiction with; show to be false
Superlative:
- An exaggerated expression
Repugnant:
- Offensive to the mind
Kowtow:
- Bend the knees and bow in a servile manner
Consummate:
-Revealing supreme mastery or skill
Tour de force:
- A masterly or brilliant feat
Subservient:
- To serve under another person
Resonate:
- Be received or understood
Paramount:
- Having superior power and influence
Apathetic:
- Showing little or no emotion
Arbitrarily:
- In a random manner
Gerrymander:
- Divide unfairly and to one's advantage
Invoke:
- Summon into action or bring into existence
Feasible:
- Capable of being done
Pantheon:
- A monument commemorating a nation's dead heroes
Smoldering:
- Showing scarcely suppressed anger
Spectacle:
- Something or someone seen
Confiscate:
- Seizure by the government
Situated:
- Located in a specific place
Invalidate:
- Take away the legal force of or render ineffective
Emancipate:
- Give equal rights to
Fractionalize:
- To separate into parts
CHAPTER 2
Provision:
- The activity of supplying or providing something
Mandate:
- A document giving an official instruction
Nondenominational:
- Not restricted to a particular religious denomination
Inconsequential:
- Lacking worth or importance
Inconsistent:
- Displaying a lack of consistency
Inhibit:
- To put down by force or authority
Implicate:
- Bring into intimate and incriminating connection
Subsequent:
- Following in time or order
Endorse:
- Give support or one's approval
Staunch- fundamentalist:
- Strict adherer to a set of basic principles.
Irrational:
- Not consistent with or using reason
Forbade:
- Command against
Commerce:
- Transactions having the objective of supplying commodities
Ridicule:
- Language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate
Bigots:
- A prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own
Vigorous:
- Forceful and energetic action or activity
Spur:
-Incite or stimulate
Culminate:
- To reach a final or climactic stage
Unanimous:
- In complete agreement
Litigate:
- Engage in legal proceedings
Permissible:
- That may be permitted especially as according to rule
Extol:
-To praise; to make high
Mandate:
- Command or authorization to act in a particular way
Foregone:
- Well in the past
Intelligent Design:
- Assertion that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection
CHAPTER 3
Penchant:
- A strong liking
Indigent:
- Poor enough to need help from others
Avail:
- Use to one's advantage
Tedious:
- Boring
Elicit:
- Arouse
Incriminating:
- Charging or suggestive of guilt
CHAPTER 4
Contended:
- To strive in opposition
Unanimous:
- In complete agreement
Deliberate:
- Think about carefully
Impenetrable:
- Not admitting of penetration
Criterion:
- A basis for comparison
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