Saturday, January 28, 2012

Democratizing Twentieth Century HW - Due Wed, Feb 1



1) Define each of the following terms. Include parts of speech.

annexation
expurgated
kiosk
scuttle
Anti-Semitism
euphemism

2) Read the following:

WWII - Key People and Terms

WWII - The Start of the War

3) In notebooks, identify each of the following terms using several sentences.

Winston Churchill
Allied Powers
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hirohito
Adolf Hitler
Nazi Party
Benito Mussolini
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
Harry S Truman
Allied Powers
Axis Powers
Blitzkrieg
D-Day
Fascism
“Final Solution”
Gestapo
Manhattan Project
Munich Agreement
S.S.

4) Look over the following maps and draw each in notebook (due Friday, Feb 3):




5) Read the following article. Write a summary in your notebook. Respond to this question: Should the German government ban the selling of Mein Kampf? Why or why not?

In Germany, attitudes toward ‘Mein Kampf’ slowly changing

Democratizing Twentieth Century Homework - Due Wed, Feb 1

Politics and Government Homework - Due Jan 31, 2012

On Friday we read an excerpt from Zinn about the Seattle strike. We also talked about revolutionary socialism v. moderate socialism.

A) Review your notes.

B) Read this excerpt from the NYS Anarchy Law:

"§ 160. Criminal anarchy defined. Criminal anarchy is the doctrine that organized government should be overthrown by force or violence, or by assassination of the executive head or of any of the executive officials of government, or by any unlawful means. The advocacy of such doctrine either by word of mouth or writing is a felony.

§ 161. Advocacy of criminal anarchy. Any person who:

1. By word of mouth or writing advocates, advises or teaches the duty, necessity or propriety of overthrowing or overturning organized government by force or violence, or by assassination of the executive head or of any of the executive officials of government, or by any unlawful means; or,"

2. Prints, publishes, edits, issues or knowingly circulates, sells, distributes or publicly displays any book, paper, document, or written or printed matter in any
form, containing or advocating, advising or teaching the doctrine that organized government should be overthrown by force, violence or any unlawful means

...Is guilty of a felony and punishable by imprisonment or fine, or both."


C) If you can, print it out and tape into your notebook and annotate.

D) In your notebook analyze and interpret the Anarchy Law. Do you think it violates the U. S. Constitution/Bill of Rights? Why or why not?

E) What new vocabulary did you need to look up when you read the law? Provide a list with definitions.

This will be graded on a 4 pt scale.

F) Prepare a case analysis for Gitlow v NY, 1925:

http://www.oyez.org/cases/1901-1939/1922/1922_19

Friday, January 20, 2012

MY SUPREME COURT BOOK

DID ANYONE TAKE MY RED SUPREME COURT BOOK?

PLEASE BRING IT IN ON MONDAY AND PLEASE EMAIL ME AT COPELAND.JL@GMAIL.COM SO I CAN STOP LOOKING FOR IT.

Friday, January 13, 2012

Politics and Government Homework - Due Tuesday, Jan 17

Read the following. Prepare a case analysis.

Schenck v U.S.

Schenck v U.S.

Democratizing Twentieth Century America - Some terms and concepts for midterm exam

Essay Topics

- Successes and failures of the Labor Movement

- Successes and limitations of the Birth Control Movement

Terms/Concepts

Joseph McCarthy
Edgar R Murrow
Monroe Doctrine
Panama Canal
Spanish American War
imperialism
Women’s Suffrage Movement
Alice Paul
Sherman Antitrust Act
Seneca Falls
Carrie Chapman Catt
NAWSA, NWP
Triangle Shirt Waist Fire
16, 17, 18, 19th amendments
Federal/State gov’t
Progressive era
Settlement houses, Jane Adams
Unions, AFL, IWW, CIO
John Lewis
Hepburn Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
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
Immigration
1920s, economy of
Calvin Coolidge
Warren Harding
Herbert Hoover
Taft-Hartley Act
Margaret Sanger/Birth Control Movement
Anthony Comstock
Griswold v. Connecticut
Roe v. Wade
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
New Deal
Franklin Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Dust Bowl
Great Depression
Grapes of Wrath
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
Flint Sit-Down Strike
Seattle General Strike
Gov't, Economic Systems
New Deal
Women and the New Deal
Social Security Act
CCC
TVA
WPA
Wagner Act
NIRA
Political/Cultural/Economic Spectrum
types of government and economic systems
muckraker
Silent Sentinel
Marxist
scab labor
collective bargaining
Taylorism
AAA



Readings:
Zinn-Socialist Challenge, War is the Health, Self Help in Hard Times
Battle for Suffrage, Birth Control Packet, Who Built America

All links

Democratizing Twentieth Century America Homework - Due Tuesday, Jan 17

Next week we will watch a documentary about McCarthyism. Read each the following links. Take notes; notes will be graded on a 4pt scale. Please write a small reflection at the end in which you consider how the material connects to the question:

If the reform was only partially achieved, what limited its attainment?

Dwight Eisenhower

McCarthyism

McCarthyism

Edgar R Morrow

Milo Radulovich, 81, Dies; Symbol of ’50s Red Scare

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Politics and Government - some terms to review and know for midterm exam

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

intolerable acts
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
“power of the purse”
Federalism
Federalist/Anti-Federalist/Republican
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
Margaret Thatcher
Huey Long
George Washington
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
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
Hamilton's Financial Plan
Jay's Treaty
Marbury v Madison
McCollough v Maryland
Barron v Baltimore
Earls v Bd of Ed
Dred Scott Decision
Slaughterhouse Cases
Schenk v U.S.
Gitlow v NY
Rochin v California
Pierce v Society of Sisters
police power
Writ of Certiorari
Checks and Balances
Ben Franklin
monarchy
theocracy
aristocracy
republic
democracy
dictatorship
state
sovereignty
economy
Political/Cultural/Economic Spectrum
Missouri Compromise
Reconstruction Amendments
overlapping jurisdiction
double jeopardy
change of venue


Texts

Inventing a Nation
-Major Characters
-Major Events
-Vidal's perspective and analysis


Supremes' Greatest Hits (Introduction)

A Kind of Revolution (Howard Zinn)

-Major Characters
-Major Events
-Zinn's perspective and analysis

Democracy and the Constitution

Civil Rights: Justice Under the Law

All blog links and other selected handouts

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Politics and Government Homework - Due Mon, Jan 9

McCulloch v Maryland

Supreme Court History - The First Hundred Years



Read each of the links above. Take notes. Notes will be graded on a 4 pt scale.

Democratizing Twentieth Century Homework - Due Mon, Jan 9

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhartley.htm

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Closed+Shop

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/union+shop


1 - Clink and read the links above.

2 - Take notes.

3 - Use your notes to answer the EQ's regarding the Labor Movement:

What gains were sought but not won?

What limited the Labor Movement in its endeavor to achieve its goals?