Bill of Rights - Politics...Republic 1789-1800

pg 212-216

1. Discuss the political makeup of the 1st Congress.

2. What issues were of primary importance to the Congress?

3. Discuss the contribution of Madison to the 1st Congress.

4. List the liberties and rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.

5. Discuss the presidency of George Washington. What challenges did he face. Describe his policies.

6. Discuss Hamilton's views on the role of national government, business and the national debt.

Bill of Rights Brilliant Solution Chap 2

School of the Future
Humanities, J. Copeland
Bill of Rights 1789-present

A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution
Chapter 2

Directions: Answer each question thoroughly. Include for each a quote(s) that helped you determine the answer.

1. Why does Berkin suggest that Philadelphia at first seemed like a “city of muffled curses?”
2. Why would George Washington’s participation in the convention be significant?
3. Why was Washington hesitant to participate?
4. What was the Society of the Cincinnati? Why might it be seen as anti-republican?
5. Why did the Convention commence later than expected?
6. How did Madison take advantage of the time he spent waiting?
7. Discuss Franklin’s feelings about the Articles of Confederation and the Confederation Congress.
8. Discuss Morris’s feelings about the Articles of Confederation and the Confederation Congress.
9. How were some delegates skeptical of Alexander Hamilton?
10. Which state declined to attend the Convention?
11. Who was elected the Convention’s presiding officer?
12. What was the inherent message in the states’ charges? Why might these charges have disturbed those who supported forging a strong national government?
13. Discuss the position taken by the state of Delaware. Do you think this position would impede or facilitate a smooth convention?

Vocabulary: demure, kindred, bellicose, hypochondriac, amend, buttress, loath, camaraderie, dereliction, quorum, venerable, septuagenarian, parlay, aphorism, avuncular, agile, foster, benevolent, meticulous, loquacious

Democratizing 20th Century Zinn Reading

Read Zinn up to page 159 and identify the following terms

Charles Drew
African American workers
Women and WWII
Executive Order 1066
relationship between government and big business
reaction of organized labor
conscientious objector
Negro soldiers
Smith Act
British/American Bombing Campaign
Manhattan Project
Harry Truman

VOCABULARY DUE 9-22-08

recalcitrant
cognizant
appease
reluctance
nuance
extraneous
commensurate
communal
congregate
fallacious
debilitate
abate
regimentation
specificity
furlough
besmirch

TURN TO THE RIGHT REVIEW SHEET

I might post a few more things this evening. Remember, you can have one page of notes (front and back), but you may not share with anyone during the exam.
Good Luck!
Format: 1 easy (choice of 3), identifications, multiple choice

Essay Choices: discuss the birth and evolution of modern conservatism, discuss the core beliefs of conservatism, discuss the New Christian Right

Be prepared to discuss the following terms. They will be taken from all class readings, notes and documentaries.

voter identification
racial makeup of southern white electorate
Great White Switch
George Wallace
Newt Gingrich
Republican Revolution 1994
SALT, SALT II
Freeze Movement
Reykjavik Summit
Geneva Summit
elections of 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988
Greneda
Panama
Nicaragua
Beiruit
Iran-Contra Affair
Mike Deaver
Don Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Afghanistan
Mikhail Gorbachev
New Christian Right
Bi-Partisan Consensus

Reagan: Foreign policy of, and military spending, Reaganomics, children of, as actor, as corporate spokesman, as governor of California, relationship w/Religious Right, legacy of



Berlin Wall
Haight-Ashbury District, San Francisco

Popularizer
Military industrial complex
Containment
Dog whistle politics
Draft/impact on baby boomers
Hippie counter culture
Baby Boomer
Neo Conservative
Beatnicks
philosophers, popularizers, philanthropists, and politicians
detente
Keynesnian Economics
Free store
Employment benefits
Welfare state
Progressivism
Supply-side economics
Inflation
Fair Deal
New Deal
GI Bill
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Strategic Defense Initiative
Sandra Day O’Connor
William F. Buckley
Gerald Ford
Joseph McCarthy/HUAAC
Jimmy Carter
Russell Kirk-Conservative Mind
Moa Zedong
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Dinesh d’Souza
John Foster Dulles
Dwight Eisenhower
John Kennedy
Moa Zedong
Jimmy Carter
Joseph McCarthy/HUAAC
Goldwater on Civil Rights, gays and abortion
Goldwater at Republican National Convention
Norman Leary Nixon, differences w/movement conservatives
Walter Reuther
Harry Truman
Lyndon Johnson
Franklin Roosevelt
The Diggers
Daisy Add
“A Time for Choosing”
Vietnam War
1981 Economic Recovery Tax Act
Watergate Scandal
Iranian hostage crisis
The Death of Money
LSD
The Only Foreign Tour in the United States
6 Conservative principle
ICBMs

Democratizing 20th Century - Midterm Review Sheet

REMEMBER, YOU MAY USE ONE SHEET OF NOTES.
CHECK LATER THIS WEEKEND TO SEE IF ANY ADDITIONAL TERMS HAVE BEEN POSTED

U. S. v One Package
Griswold v Connecticut
Roe v Wade
Schenck v. U. S.

Concepts:
Scramble for Africa
Red Scare
Fascism
Communism
Socialism
Progressivism
Industrial Capitalism
Immigration; types of; policy toward
Class Consciousness; Class solidarity
strike
Events:
Industrial Revolution
WWI
Great Depression
Bolshevik Revolution
Seattle Strike
Women’s Suffrage Movement
Birth Control Movement

Economics:
Economy of the 1920s
Law of Supply and Demand
Labor Union/collective bargaining
Progressivism
People:
Alice Paul
Woodrow Wilson
Upton Sinclair
Jane Addams
Mary Harris
William McKinley
Mother Mary Jones
Ida Tarbell
Kate Richards O’Hare
J. P. Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
Eugene Debbs
Samuel Gompers
Carrie Chapman Catt
Emma Goldman
Helen Keller
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Charles Schenk,
Oliver Wendel Holmes,
Sacco and Vanzetti,

Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points


Espionage Act
Oliver Wendel Holmes
American Protective League
Green Corn Rebellion Palmer Raids
Gregory Pincus
b) Franz Ferdinand
c) James Wadsworth
d) William Jennings Bryan
e) W. E. B. Dubois
f) J. Edgar Hoover
g) John Rock
h) Anthony Comstock
i) William Foster

NAWSA
2. AFL
3. WP
4. IWW
5. WCTU
1. muckraker
2. Silent Sentinel
3. Marxist
4. scab labor
5. collective bargaining
6. imperialism
7. Taylorism
8. Reformist Motherhood
9. Political Motherhood
10. Republican Mothers
11. Socialist Woman
1. mainstream reason cited for U.S. entry into WWI
2. unrestricted submarine warfare
3. Monroe Doctrine
4. Panama Canal
5. Spanish American War
6. The Jungle
19th amendment

Turn to the Right - Final Paper

School of the Future
History, J. Copeland

Turn to the Right: The Rise of Reagan and Movement and Conservatism

Final Response Essay

DUE NO LATER THAN MONDAY JUNE 9th

Write an essay (min 4 pages double spaced) that answers the following question:

Discuss Ronald Reagan’s conservative philosophy. Was he more of a social/cultural conservative, a nationalist/pro-military conservative, a libertarian conservative or a fiscal/corporate conservative?

Criteria:
Your essay should be absolutely no less than 4 pages (5 would be more appropriate). It should include the following:

a) a clear and contentious thesis, supported by logical arguments
b) logical arguments supported by evidence (both paraphrased and directly quoted)
c) evidence from Reagan’s Realignment of White Southerners (Black and Black)
d) evidence from Reagan Years (Chaffe)
e) evidence from Lee Edwards lecture
f) evidence from Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus (Zinn)
g) evidence from The Presidents: Reagan (PBS)
h) evidence from one outside source

Mechanics:

Your essay should also:

a) be thoroughly checked for spelling and grammar errors
• Read the paper aloud to yourself or a friend at least once before submitting
b) include transitional phrases to link paragraphs and different ideas
c) include an introduction that engages the reader and contextualizes the discussion
d) include a conclusion that summarizes your central argument
e) illustrate the significance of the topic
f) not make me want to shoot myself