Politics and Government - Midterm Review

American Revolution
constitutional system; proportional/majoritarian
democratic stability 
first past the post/proportional voting
proportional representation/equal representation
runoff elections/double ballot
consensus governments; examples of 
Duverger's Law
divided government 
Presidential system/parliamentary system 
partisan politics
Alexis De Tocqueville
philosopher king
bicameral/unicameral
federal/unitary
virtual representation
Southern veto 
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
“power of the purse”
Federalism
Federalist/Anti-Federalist/Republican
Electoral College/election of the president
Presidential election of 1876, presidential election of 2000
Constitutional Convention of 1787
Freedom House 
swing state
separation of powers
Federalist Papers 
John Locke
Thomas Paine
Declaration of Independence
checks and balances
House of Representatives; gerrymandering

Senate
Articles of Confederation
Bill of Rights
Whiskey Rebellion
Shays’ Rebellion
New Jersey Plan
Virginia Plan
Connecticut Compromise

George Washington
James Madison
James Wilson
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
Andrew Jackson
Pseudo-democratization of the presidency
British constitution 
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
privileges and immunities 
civil liberties
judicial review
Alien and Sedition Acts
Hamilton's Financial Plan

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
police power
Writ of Certiorari
Checks and Balances
Ben Franklin
sovereignty
Missouri Compromise
Slavery in the Constitution 
Reconstruction Amendments
overlapping jurisdiction
double jeopardy
change of venue
due process
incorporation

 **This is a guide, not a verbatim list of everything that will be on the midterm. You need to study.  Please check the blog again if there are multiple snow days.
**Bring at least one number 2 pencil to the exam. You may have one 8.5x11 page on notes for the exam. FRONT ONLY, NO SHARING. If you re caught with a photocopy of another student's notes, both of you will receive a zero.

Democratizing Twentieth Century America - Midterm Review

Progressive Era; amendments, legislation, policies of government, economics, culture
WWI
Monroe Doctrine
Panama Canal
Spanish American War
imperialism
Women’s Suffrage Movement
Emma Goldman
Letta Hollingsworth
Helen Keller
Alice Paul
Calvin Coolidge
Warren Harding
Herbert Hoover
Taft-Hartley Act
Margaret Sanger/Birth Control Movement
Reproductive Rights Legal Cases
Anthony Comstock
New Deal
Franklin Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Dust Bowl
Great Depression
Grapes of Wrath
Motherhood, types of
WWI Bonus Army
Sacco and Vanzetti
Palmer Raids
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 - impact of, programs created by, role of women in
Wagner Act
NIRA 
types of government and economic systems
muckraker
Silent Sentinel
Marxist
scab labor
collective bargaining
Taylorism

**This is a guide, not a verbatim list of everything that will be on the midterm. You need to study.  Please check the blog again if there are multiple snow days.
**Bring at least one number 2 pencil to the exam. You may have one 8.5x11 page on notes for the exam. FRONT ONLY, NO SHARING. If you re caught with a photocopy of another student's notes, both of you will receive a zero.

Readings: Zinn-Socialist Challenge, War is the Health, Self Help in Hard Times
Battle for Suffrage, Who Built America packets, Goldman and Hollingsworth essays. class notes on lectures, other links and readings such as Ford memoir.
Films: Roger and Me, CCC, Triangle Fire 

Democratizing Twentieth Century America - Homework - Due Mon, Jan 26

1 - Read - Taft-Hartley Act 1947

2 - Read - Labor Democratizes America (last two sections), annotate, and take notes

Politics and Government - Homework - Due Wed, Jan 13

Juniors - Finish Reading McCoulloch v Maryland - Take notes, summarize, do annotations

Seniors - Finish reading Dred Scott case. Summarize, do annotations. We will work on opinion analysis tomorrow.

Democratizing Twentieth Century America - Homeowrk - Due Wed, Jan 13

Read Zinn 389 - 393 (Read through the Bellush excerpt on the top of 393)

In addition to your notes:
1 - Primary source analysis of The Grapes of Wrath excerpt
2 - Analysis of Brother Can You Spare A Dime?
3 - Identify and discuss: WWI Bonus Army
4 - Discuss the NRA (National Recovery Act) **Discuss connections to EQ

Democratizing Twentieth Century - Homework Due - Wed, Jan 7

Read Zinn 382 - 387

1 - Identify: Marcus Garvey

2 - Discuss Zinn's critique of the characterization of the 1920s as a "Jazz Age" or "Roaring."
What evidence does he provide to challenge such characterizations?

3 - Analyze and interpret the F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis excerpts.

4 - Identify: Fiorello La Guardia

5 - What was the Mellon Plan? Why was it supported by some and criticized by others?

6 - Discuss the labor struggles during the 1920s. What connections can you make between Zinn's discussion/analysis of the said struggles and the Labor Movement/Why Then? web in your notebook?

**Some of you still owe me a WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE ESSAY. I said that Friday was the last possible day to submit. I realize you have exhibitions due on Monday. While this is not my problem, I can allow you to have until next Wednesday. All papers will be reduced by 10 points. 

Politics and Government - Homework - Due Tues, Jan 6

Read and create a primary source analysis for Article III of the Constitution.
If I did not receive a hard copy of your essay it is going in Skedula as a zero. 

Democratizing Twentieth Century - Homework - Due Tues, Jan 6

1 - Finish reading "My Life, My Work"
     annotate text
     construct a primary source analysis

2 - If you never submitted a hard copy of your Women's Suffrage Movement essay, please do so
      by Friday or I will be forced to enter a zero. The essay is 1/5 of your semester grade.