Monday, February 29, 2016
Democratzing Twentieth Century America - Homework - Due - Thursday, March 3
**Please make sure you scroll down so you don't miss the homework due 3/1 and 3/2
Read Franklin pgs 506-521
a) Discuss the gains blacks made via the Supreme Court.
b) Identify: "To Secure These Rights"
c) How did Harry Truman impact the status of blacks?
d) Provide 3 examples of evolution of black voting rights after WWII
e) Discuss NAAWP, White Citizens' Councils and interposition. How did these all impact African Americans?
f) In what ways did whites use violence to resist?
g) What is "white flight"? What caused it and how did impact housing trends?
h) Discuss three gains blacks made regarding employment post WWII.
i) Identify: Fair Housing Act
j) Primary Source Analysis: James Baldwin Reflects on the Ghetto
k) Discuss the degree to which blacks participated in business and commerce.
Read Franklin pgs 506-521
a) Discuss the gains blacks made via the Supreme Court.
b) Identify: "To Secure These Rights"
c) How did Harry Truman impact the status of blacks?
d) Provide 3 examples of evolution of black voting rights after WWII
e) Discuss NAAWP, White Citizens' Councils and interposition. How did these all impact African Americans?
f) In what ways did whites use violence to resist?
g) What is "white flight"? What caused it and how did impact housing trends?
h) Discuss three gains blacks made regarding employment post WWII.
i) Identify: Fair Housing Act
j) Primary Source Analysis: James Baldwin Reflects on the Ghetto
k) Discuss the degree to which blacks participated in business and commerce.
Politics and Government - Homewprk - Due - Tuesday, March 1
A) Read and annotate the Vernonia opion. Take notes and summarize/synthesize the central ideas in your notebook.
B) Answer the following questions:
1. If Vernonia had insisted that all students submit to drug tests, would the Court have upheld the policy? 2. How relevant to the Court's analysis in Vernonia is the age of the students tested? Could a university insist upon drug testing athletes? An elementary school? 3. How much evidence of drug use among students is necessary to establish a policy like Vernonia's?
B) Answer the following questions:
1. If Vernonia had insisted that all students submit to drug tests, would the Court have upheld the policy? 2. How relevant to the Court's analysis in Vernonia is the age of the students tested? Could a university insist upon drug testing athletes? An elementary school? 3. How much evidence of drug use among students is necessary to establish a policy like Vernonia's?
Democratizing Twentieth Century - Homework - Due - Tuesday, March 1
Due Tues, March 1
1) Read Zinn chap 17: "Or Does it Explode?", pgs 443-455
2) Identify the each of the following terms. Consider the significance of each, provide quotations to support when necessary (if you say it's not necessary you're getting a zero), and consider how the term might fit into an argument in your essay.
a) southern blacks and the communist party
b) Angelo Herndon
c) Harry Truman and blacks
e) Truman's Committee on Civil Rights
f) use of Federal Courts
g) Martin Luther King
h) Greensboro, NC
i) CORE/Freedom Rides
j) John Kennedy and blacks
k)
Historical Synthesis: Discuss Zinn's use of poems and other primary
sources the illustrate the psychological condition of African Americans.2) Identify the each of the following terms. Consider the significance of each, provide quotations to support when necessary (if you say it's not necessary you're getting a zero), and consider how the term might fit into an argument in your essay.
a) southern blacks and the communist party
b) Angelo Herndon
c) Harry Truman and blacks
e) Truman's Committee on Civil Rights
f) use of Federal Courts
g) Martin Luther King
h) Greensboro, NC
i) CORE/Freedom Rides
j) John Kennedy and blacks
Due Wed, March 2
Read Zinn 455-462
Questions:
1) Discuss and interpret Malcolm X's characterization of the March on Washington. Provide at least one quote for evidence.
2) Select any three quotes that connect to a Civil Rights Movement cause: WWII, Cold War, Advancements in Technology, Supreme Court, Youth/Education
Copy the quote into your notebook and analyze.
3) Identify the following terms.
l) SNCC
m) Lyndon Johnson and blacks
n) Arthur Sschlesinger: A Thousand Days
o) unemployment, poverty rates whites/blacks
p) Lyndon Johnson
q) Watts, Los Angeles
r) black migration to the North
Due Thurs, March 3
Read Franklin pgs 506-521
a) Discuss the gains blacks made via the Supreme Court.
b) Identify: "To Secure These Rights"
c) How did Harry Truman impact the status of blacks?
d) Provide 3 examples of evolution of black voting rights after WWII
e) Discuss NAAWP, White Citizens' Councils and interposition. How did these all impact African Americans?
f) In what ways did whites use violence to resist?
g) What is "white flight"? What caused it and how did impact housing trends?
h) Discuss three gains blacks made regarding employment post WWII.
i) Identify: Fair Housing Act
j) Primary Source Analysis: James Baldwin Reflects on the Ghetto
k) Discuss the degree to which blacks participated in business and commerce.
a) Discuss the gains blacks made via the Supreme Court.
b) Identify: "To Secure These Rights"
c) How did Harry Truman impact the status of blacks?
d) Provide 3 examples of evolution of black voting rights after WWII
e) Discuss NAAWP, White Citizens' Councils and interposition. How did these all impact African Americans?
f) In what ways did whites use violence to resist?
g) What is "white flight"? What caused it and how did impact housing trends?
h) Discuss three gains blacks made regarding employment post WWII.
i) Identify: Fair Housing Act
j) Primary Source Analysis: James Baldwin Reflects on the Ghetto
k) Discuss the degree to which blacks participated in business and commerce.
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Democratizing Twentieth Century Homework - Due - Friday, Feb 26
Read Franklin 492 - 504, take notes, and answer the following questions:
1 - Discuss the impact the war had in blacks at home.
2 - Identify: FEPC
3 - How did attitudes about race impact preparations for an attack on the homefron?
4 - Discuss the problems that arose as a result of changing demographics in cities, i.e. Detroit.
5 - Why were some blacks resentful of Joe Lewis?
6 - Identify: OWI
7 - How did the OWI attempt to appease blacks?
8 - How did blacks demonstrate interest in world affairs?
9 - Discuss blacks' feelings about the San Fransisco Conference.
10 - Select, summarize, and analyze three quotes about the San Fransisco Conference.
11 - Identify: UNESCO
12 - How might one argue that the formation of the U.N. had an impact on the Civil Rights Movement?
13 - Discuss the significance of independence movements in Africa.
1 - Discuss the impact the war had in blacks at home.
2 - Identify: FEPC
3 - How did attitudes about race impact preparations for an attack on the homefron?
4 - Discuss the problems that arose as a result of changing demographics in cities, i.e. Detroit.
5 - Why were some blacks resentful of Joe Lewis?
6 - Identify: OWI
7 - How did the OWI attempt to appease blacks?
8 - How did blacks demonstrate interest in world affairs?
9 - Discuss blacks' feelings about the San Fransisco Conference.
10 - Select, summarize, and analyze three quotes about the San Fransisco Conference.
11 - Identify: UNESCO
12 - How might one argue that the formation of the U.N. had an impact on the Civil Rights Movement?
13 - Discuss the significance of independence movements in Africa.
C) The right to bear arms is essential in a free and democratic society.
D) The death penalty is a necessary component of our justice system.
E) Eminent domain should be invoked to encourage private development of economically disadvantaged communities.
F) Government should improve educational opportunities for disadvantaged students by facilitating access to parochial schools.
Public schools should be allowed to implement mandatory drug testing for all students.
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