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Reading Guide VI
Periods 6 (1865-1898) & Period 7 (1890-1945) (-)
With the Civil War a recent memory, the United States concentrates on the rapid industrialization of the Country. The West, South, and North all experience a new era that includes the growth of urbanization, massive immigration, and the consolidation of "big business" power.
Chapter 23. Politics and Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896
Chapter24. Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900
Chapter25. America Moves to the City, 1865-1900
Chapter26. The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896
With the Civil War a recent memory, the United States concentrates on the rapid industrialization of the Country. The West, South, and North all experience a new era that includes the growth of urbanization, massive immigration, and the consolidation of "big business" power.
Chapter 23. Politics and Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896
Chapter24. Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900
Chapter25. America Moves to the City, 1865-1900
Chapter26. The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896
Themes:
Geography and the Environment (GEO)
Work, Exchange, and Technology (WXT)
American and National Identity (NAT)
Politics and Power (POL)
America in the World (WOR)
Migration and Settlement (MIG)
Culture and Society (CUL)
Geography and the Environment (GEO)
Work, Exchange, and Technology (WXT)
American and National Identity (NAT)
Politics and Power (POL)
America in the World (WOR)
Migration and Settlement (MIG)
Culture and Society (CUL)
Actively Learn: Politics of the Gilded Age
Why are the presidents of the era, 1877-1901, so forgettable?
Rating the Gilded Age Presidents
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We will rate the presidents of this era based on the issues of the day that went, for the most part, ignored. Find out how they stack up against the rest of our presidents below.
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Who are the Richest People in the World?
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Who Were The Wealthiest Americans of the Industrial Age?
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Factors of Industrialization
A number of factors contributed to the rapid Industrialization of the United States, transforming the country into a machine civilization. Here we will look up the factors listed and organize them into 3 or 4 groups according to their similarities (your opinion). Then, describe how each of your groupings is similar. These groupings will be used to respond to a prompt later.
Exam Skills: SAQ (Short Answer Question)-Industrialization
From the Cengage Learning Teacher's Resource Guide, 2016
"Expanding Varying Viewpoints"-"The Industrialization: Boom or Blight?" (pp. 537) Click the document below.
From the Cengage Learning Teacher's Resource Guide, 2016
"Expanding Varying Viewpoints"-"The Industrialization: Boom or Blight?" (pp. 537) Click the document below.
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Lecture:
Urbanization |
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Doing The DBQ (1979)
How committed was America, politically, to adhere to a philosophy of Laissez-Faire? Click the document below to determine, using the documents provided, your answer.
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Late 19th and Early 20th Century Immigration
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The Late 19th and early 2oth centuries saw the largest number of Immigrants enter the United States in its history. What did this massive migration look like? Click the animated map link below to find out. Also, we will take a look at the timeline patterns of US Immigration to determine causes and consequences. Lastly, we take an interactive journey through Ellis Island.
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Actively Learn: A Rush of Immigrants
Learn about immigration in this era. Click below.
Learn about immigration in this era. Click below.
Living on "Gold Maintain"
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Most of the immigration story tends to focus on the East Coast, where Europe's immigrants came through the "Golden Door," to the United States, Ellis Island, and past the Statue of Liberty. Another story, this on the West Coast, tells of Asians facing a much more difficult and dangerous route to "Gold Mountain." Click below to learn of Fong See's amazing success story.
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Chinese immigrant Fong See.
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How dangerous is the American workplace today? Click below to find out!
Industrialization and African-Americans
Faced with being left behind in an industrializing America, African-Americans debated how best to work toward prosperity and equal rights. Use the links below to learn about the philosophies of two famous Americans.
Faced with being left behind in an industrializing America, African-Americans debated how best to work toward prosperity and equal rights. Use the links below to learn about the philosophies of two famous Americans.
Exam Skills: SAQ (Short Answer Question)-Populists
From the Cengage Learning Teacher's Resource Guide, 2016
From the Cengage Learning Teacher's Resource Guide, 2016
"Expanding Varying Viewpoints"-"The Populists: Radicals or Reactionaries?" (pp. 509-510) Click the documents below.
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Exam Skills: SAQ (Short Answer Question)-The West
From the Cengage Learning Teacher's Resource Guide, 2016
"Expanding Varying Viewpoints"-"The Industrialization: Was the West Really 'Won'?" (pp. 604) Click the document below.
From the Cengage Learning Teacher's Resource Guide, 2016
"Expanding Varying Viewpoints"-"The Industrialization: Was the West Really 'Won'?" (pp. 604) Click the document below.
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Actively Learn: The Dawes Act
How did humanitarians hope to assimilate Native-Americans into American society? Click below.
How did humanitarians hope to assimilate Native-Americans into American society? Click below.
A Walk in Two Worlds: Zitkála-Šá
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Helen Hunt Jackson's book, A Century of Dishonor, helped encourage a desire to improve the condition of Native-Americans. The resulting goal of assimilation of Native-Americans into American society had mixed results. Read the story of Red Bird (Zitkala-Sa) to determine if assimilation helped or hurt her and her people. Click below.
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1900 House
Could your family live without electricity, electronics, privacy, and all the trappings of their modern life? Watch the episodes from the BBC's "1900 House" to see what happens to a modern family living as if it were 1900.
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The Problems of Urbanization
Exam Skills: SAQ (Short Answer Question)-Women & African-Americans
From the Cengage Learning Teacher's Resource Guide, 2016
"Expanding Varying Viewpoints"-Cultural and Intellectual Movements. Click the document below.
From the Cengage Learning Teacher's Resource Guide, 2016
"Expanding Varying Viewpoints"-Cultural and Intellectual Movements. Click the document below.
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Reading Guide VII
Periods 6 (1865-1898) and 7 (1890-1945) (-)
In this next phase of American history, "economic and political forces spark a spectacular burst of imperialistic expansion for the United States that culminates in the Spanish-American War-a war that began over freeing Cuba and ended with the highly controversial acquisition of the Philippines." The United Stets achieves major world power status, but must confront new responsibilities.
Chapter 27. Empire and Expansion
Chapter 28. Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt
Chapter 29. Wilsonian Progressivism at home and Abroad
Chapter 30. The War To End War
Themes:
Geography and the Environment (GEO)
Work, Exchange, and Technology (WXT)
American and National Identity (NAT)
Politics and Power (POL)
America in the World (WOR)
Migration and Settlement (MIG)
Culture and Society (CUL)
In this next phase of American history, "economic and political forces spark a spectacular burst of imperialistic expansion for the United States that culminates in the Spanish-American War-a war that began over freeing Cuba and ended with the highly controversial acquisition of the Philippines." The United Stets achieves major world power status, but must confront new responsibilities.
Chapter 27. Empire and Expansion
Chapter 28. Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt
Chapter 29. Wilsonian Progressivism at home and Abroad
Chapter 30. The War To End War
Themes:
Geography and the Environment (GEO)
Work, Exchange, and Technology (WXT)
American and National Identity (NAT)
Politics and Power (POL)
America in the World (WOR)
Migration and Settlement (MIG)
Culture and Society (CUL)
Exam Skills: SAQ (Short Answer Question)-Why did America become a world power? (p 633)
From the Cengage Learning Teacher's Resource Guide, 2016
Click the document below.
From the Cengage Learning Teacher's Resource Guide, 2016
Click the document below.
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Actively Learn: The Spanish American War
The United States became a full-fledged Empire because of the consequences of of the Spanish-American war of 1898. What caused the war, and what were its results?
Jingoism
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As Urbanization stimulated the growth of news publications, competition drove this growing media to go extremes to sell copy. The resulting sensationalism had many
names--"Yellow Journalism," Jingoism, and the tabloids for example. Many cite this type of news for helping to create an aggressive American mood toward Spain. But was this a cause of the war with Spain? Click below to find out. |
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The American Empire at the turn of the last century (c. 1900)
The Central Intelligence Agency has one of the most comprehensive sites covering the World's countries and their territorial possessions. CIA staff refer to this site for basic information. We will use the site to uncover the current status of the once vast American Empire. Click below to begin your research.
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The Jungle
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In 1906 Theodore Roosevelt used Upton Sinclair's The Jungle to move the House of Representatives to pass legislation to regulate food processing in America. Sinclair's novel about the Rudkus family was meant to draw attention to the plight of poor immigrants. Instead, Americans were most interested in the horrid conditions descibing the meat-packing plant where the Jurgis Rudkus worked. Here, we will read a few excerpts from the book to help us understand the conditions needing to be addressed by Progressive legislation.
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Learning Center Excerpts:
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Upton Sinclair
Questions. How does Upton Sinclair describe the following:
1) Graft & Corruption? 2) Political Machine? 3) Scams on Immigrants? 4) The Meat-Packing Industry? 5) Child Labor? 6) Layoffs? | ||||||
A Child on Strike
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"Carmela Teoli was an Italian immigrant girl and textile mill worker. Her testimony before Congress in 1912 called national attention to unsafe working conditions in the mills, her own tragic accident, and helped bring a successful end to the 'Bread and Roses' strike." Watch the video to learn her story. (McDougal-Littell)
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Why Is There No Socialism in the United States?
Werner Sombart, and many other Socialists, had expected the best glaring example of the Era's "Late" industrial capitalism--the United States--to be ripe for working-class revolution. He investigated why it had not in a 1904 journey that echoes the curiosity of Alexis de Tocqueville's the previous century. Like Tocqueville, his observations are a unique insight into our economic, political, and social fabric.
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I am still working on some excerpts.
Article by Patrick Acard, University of Kansas. Click on the document below.
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The Progressive Era Chart
Here will chart the American middle class answer, to the extreme answers being provided at the time, to solving the problem of industrialization.
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The chart below will help us create organizational themes to quantify Progressivism in all its forms, helping us to construct an essay on the topic. Use the file below to create your chart.
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Exam Skills: "Varying Viewpoints: Who Were the Progressives?" (p. 661)
From the Cengage Learning Teacher's Resource Guide, 2016
Click the document below.
From the Cengage Learning Teacher's Resource Guide, 2016
Click the document below.
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Doing The DBQ (2003/2019)
Progressivism has been the subject of many College Board essay questions. Linked here are two DBQs that cover the subject.
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Gusher!
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On the 10th day of the first month of the 20th Century oil exploded from the ground near Beaumont Texas. This event would help lead to oil being the plentiful, cheap, and the primary fuel of our society for the next 150 years. Pattillo Higgins, the architect of this seminal event has an amazing story. Click below to find out more.
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INFLUENZA 1918
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What killed more Americans than all the wars fought in the 20th century, and nearly brought our country to the breaking point? An H1N1 Influenza A Virus. Watch this video from American Experience to learn more. How has the COVID experience been different?
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The 94th Aero Squadron
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Want kind of men climb into an aircraft, without parachutes to take to the skies in a kill or be killed duel to the death? Watch the video below to learn about America's "Ace of Aces," Eddie Rickenbacker. Learn about this man and America's most famous squadron of the Great War. (From The Americans Text Materials, McDougal-Littell)
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Our Colored Heroes
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The Case:
Host Tukufu Zuberi switched roles for this story and brought a question of his own to History Detectives. Tukufu collects posters featuring African Americans in combat. One in particular intrigues him. Titled Our Colored Heroes, the poster tells an incredible World War I story. A raiding party of more than 20 Germans attacked two African American doughboys on sentry duty. The poster quotes General Pershing who praises the two colored sentries who ‘continued fighting after receiving wounds and despite the use of grenades by a superior force.’ Did all of this actually happen? And why was this poster made? Tukufu, along with fellow History Detectives host Elyse Luray track down the truth, and call on the insight of U.S. Senator Charles Schumer to answer Tukufu’s question. |
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Actively Learn: The Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations
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What did President Woodrow Wilson hope to achieve by being the first sitting president to visit Europe, attending the Paris Peace Conference? Why did the U.S. Senate refuse to ratify the Conference's Versailles Treaty? Find out all this and more by clicking below and completing the Actively Learn assignment.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes was shaped by the single most important event of his life--The Civil War. He spent 30 years on the Supreme Court shaping American understanding of the Constitution. Read the document below to learn his views on the Great War and civil rights.
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Reading Guide VIII
Period 7 (1890-1945)
In this next phase of American history, America is on the move--technologically, as the internal combustion engine revolutionizes travel, and geographically, as Americans continue to move to cities for opportunity. All this as the United States faces the great challenges of depression and war.
Chapter 30. American Life in the "Roaring Twenties," 1920-1929.
Chapter 31. The Politics of Boom and Bust, 1920-1932.
Chapter 32. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933-1939.
Chapter 33. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War, 1933-1941.
Chapter 34. America in World War II, 1941-1945.
Themes:
Geography and the Environment (GEO)
Work, Exchange, and Technology (WXT)
American and National Identity (NAT)
Politics and Power (POL)
America in the World (WOR)
Migration and Settlement (MIG)
Culture and Society (CUL)
In this next phase of American history, America is on the move--technologically, as the internal combustion engine revolutionizes travel, and geographically, as Americans continue to move to cities for opportunity. All this as the United States faces the great challenges of depression and war.
Chapter 30. American Life in the "Roaring Twenties," 1920-1929.
Chapter 31. The Politics of Boom and Bust, 1920-1932.
Chapter 32. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933-1939.
Chapter 33. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War, 1933-1941.
Chapter 34. America in World War II, 1941-1945.
Themes:
Geography and the Environment (GEO)
Work, Exchange, and Technology (WXT)
American and National Identity (NAT)
Politics and Power (POL)
America in the World (WOR)
Migration and Settlement (MIG)
Culture and Society (CUL)
Actively Learn: Domestic and International Politics of the 1920s.
Consider the following question: how were politics in the 1920s shaped by The Great War?
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Lecture: The Era of
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When the Negro was en Vogue
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Langston Hughes was probably the most famous artist to be associated with the Harlem Renaissance. In his autobiography, The Big Sea, he is also the period's most important critic. What did urbanization mean for African-Americans? Click below to discover his criticism.
Excerpt below from The Big Sea: An Autobiography
Discussion Questions:
1) How would you describe Harlem of the 1920s based on your reading of this excerpt? 2) Why do you think white America suddenly became fascinated by Harlem? 3) What is ironic about the situation described in this excerpt? Dust Tracks on a Road
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Influencial members of the Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes, Charles S. Johnson, E. Franklin Frazier, Rudolph Fisher and Hubert Delany overlooking St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem in the 1920s.
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Slang of the 1920s
Click below to learn some of the new words that emerged from a new and urbanizing America.
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Charles Lindbergh's Journey
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"In the United States, the 1920s were characterized by powerful tensions that pitted the entrenched forces of tradition against the dynamic energy of modernity. This film seeks to understand that conflict through the story of celebrated aviator Charles Lindbergh. Belonging in spirit to a rapidly disappearing small-town America yet a strong believer in progress, 'Lucky Lindy' captured the imagination of the country as he helped to move the world into a new era." (ABC News)
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The Stock Market
Hoover Struggles with the Great Depression
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Discover what President Herbert Hoover did to fight the Great Depression. Click the document below to complete the worksheet.
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A Song For His People: Pedro J. González
The Life of Pedro J. Gonzalez Mural, San Diego Bay Bridge & Chicano Park.
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The Great Depression had a dramatic effect on people who already were experiencing economic and social hardships. One group, Mexican immigrants were especially targeted by authorities, being seen as endangering the prosperity of U. S. citizens. A singer, radio host, and outspoken opponent of discrimination, "Dom Pedro" became a symbol for, and a voice of, his people--people without a voice. Click the link below to learn more.
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Lecture: The
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The New Deal
The Great Depression was brought on by a perfect storm of conditions. Environmental disaster, economic instability, and political malaise brought the nation misery on a biblical scale. Franklin Roosevelt promised Americans a New Deal to approach the crisis with unprecedented government action, as if the Nation was at war. Ironically, it would be real war that truly ended the Great Depression, not government action and spending. What did the New Deal accomplish? Check out the chart below.
The Works Progress Administration in San Diego
Actively Learn: Equal Rights and the New Deal.
The New Deal did not affect all groups equally. As "bread winners," male employment took precedence, while region racial customs, politics, and racism kept African-Americans and minorities from benefitting more significantly from New Deal programs. The Roosevelt's efforts to include and listen to all groups in the New Deal was instrumental in capturing the political loyalty of minority voters for the Democrat Party--a loyalty that continues to this day.
Entertainment in the 1930s
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Radio and Movies
Cheap forms of entertainment abounded in the 1930s. At 25 cents for a feature movie, and free shows on Radio, the Depression Era was a golden age for entertainment--Nearly 70% of Americans saw movies on a regular basis, while most American households owned at least one radio. Click the links below to discover this lost world of entertainment art. |
Bob Hope
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Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone With The Wind
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Totalitarianism Timeline, 1920s to 1940s
The Four Freedoms
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, 1941 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS “THE FOUR FREEDOMS," JANUARY 6 1941 (77th Congress)
In an effort to prepare Americans and Congress for increased involvement in the Second World War, President Roosevelt describes the purpose of increased American involvement in the support of friendly countries and people's endangered by Totalitarianism. |
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Cartoons go to War
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It was a testament to the size and scope of the war effort in World War Two that even cartoons played a role in achieving victory. The images and messages in this Bugs Bunny cartoon say as much about the enemy as they do about our Country in 1944.
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How the US helped win World War Two.
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Watch the video at right to see what special attributes allowed the United States to supply her allies and herself with the tools of victory, becoming the "arsenal of democracy." The video is part of History Channel's great series, America: The Story of Us.
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Japanese Internment
On April 1, 1942, San Diego's Japanese immigrant population faced a situation that was anything but an April Fool's joke--they were told they had a week to settle their affairs and report to the Santa Fe depot in downtown San Diego to be sent to an unknown destination. Because they looked like America's Japanese enemy, they were considered potentially dangerous, without any evidence of anti-American activity. Click below to learn their full story.
War Relocation Authority, Poston Arizona Camp. This is where most of San Diego's Japanese population was sent.
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Former Student Grace Kaminaka-Tsuida returned to thank Grossmont High School and the Museum's Baer sisters for her honorary diploma in 2012. Internment prevented her graduation in 1942.
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Love Amidst Holocaust
Perhaps there is nothing more poignant than hope, faith, and love born of tragedy. Certainly, the story of a U.S. soldier (Kurt Klein) and a Jewish girl near death (Gerda Weissman) who meet and, eventually, fall in love, in the midst of one of the darkest periods of history, is as unique as it is inspiring. Click below to learn their story.
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Bella's Famous People of WWII
Click below to find a great list from the TruePeopleSearch engine, thanks to an inquisitive student--thank you, Bella!
Reading Guide IX
Period 8 (1945-1980)
America emerges from World War II as the most powerful nation in human history. With this power comes new world-wide responsibilities, many of which challenge the the Nation in ways never expected, forever altering society, politics, and the economy.
Chapter 35. The Cold War Begins, 1945-1953
Chapter 36. American Zenith, 1952-1963
Chapter 37. The Stormy Sixties, 1963-1973
Chapter 38. Challenges to the Postwar Order, 1973-1980
Themes:
Geography and the Environment (GEO)
Work, Exchange, and Technology (WXT)
American and National Identity (NAT)
Politics and Power (POL)
America in the World (WOR)
Migration and Settlement (MIG)
Culture and Society (CUL)
America emerges from World War II as the most powerful nation in human history. With this power comes new world-wide responsibilities, many of which challenge the the Nation in ways never expected, forever altering society, politics, and the economy.
Chapter 35. The Cold War Begins, 1945-1953
Chapter 36. American Zenith, 1952-1963
Chapter 37. The Stormy Sixties, 1963-1973
Chapter 38. Challenges to the Postwar Order, 1973-1980
Themes:
Geography and the Environment (GEO)
Work, Exchange, and Technology (WXT)
American and National Identity (NAT)
Politics and Power (POL)
America in the World (WOR)
Migration and Settlement (MIG)
Culture and Society (CUL)
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Actively Learn. The Cold War at home: Who is Un-American?
A Second Red Scare overcame the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, as the Soviet Union continued its prewar, self-stated policy to expand Communism worldwide. The fear of this expansion, combined with shocking examples of spying within the United States and the West, convinced many that the threat to America was from within as well as without. The resulting loyalty oaths, investigative committees, blacklisting, and grandstanding fear-mongering led to challenges to the American ideals of freedom of speech and thought.
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Lecture: The American Dream, 1946-1960.
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The post-World War Two years brought anxiety and fear, but they also brought one the most secure and stable eras of prosperity that Americans had ever known. What stopped the Great Depression from returning after World War II? What limitations still prevented all Americans from from achieving the most the Era had to offer? Was this Era the product of the "Greatest Generation," forged by depression and war?
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Nuclear Devistation
The Atomic Bomb and the Cold War
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America's atomic bomb helped win World War Two. As other countries developed their own atomic weapons, and the Cold War began, the testig of ever more powerful nuclear bombs increased at a pace that may seem incredible.
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Elvis!
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The forces that transformed the 1960s into a time of massive social change can all be traced back to the 1950s. The biggest evidence of a changing America was manifest in a young man from Memphis playing a new style of music--Rock and Roll/Bop. The results of this man and his music helped create a widening generation gap, and further integration of society. Click on the right to watch The ABC News Special hosted by the late Peter Jennings, "Innocence in Rebellion."
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The Other America
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Activist and writer Michael Harrington (1928–1989) published The Other America: Poverty in the United States in 1962. Read by President Kennedy and many others, this highly influential book argued that despite America’s apparent postwar prosperity, tens of millions of Americans were stuck in desperate poverty. The Other America spurred many of the domestic policy initiatives undertaken by the federal government in the 1960s, known collectively as “the war on poverty.” Click below to read Harrington's main points.
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Veterans Fight Other Battles
Cesar Chavez, leader of, and advocate for, powerless farm workers.
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It is not an accident that men, having fought the "Great Crusade" against Totalitarianism in World War Two and served their nation in the Cold War, should return to lead the struggle against tyranny against the tyranny they experienced at home, leading the way to a more perfect union.
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Jacky Robinson, integrator of Major League Baseball
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The New Frontier and the Great Society
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Find below documents that will allow you to analyze both the New Frontier and the Great Society.
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America's Civil Rights Movement: A Time For Justice
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"America's Civil Rights Movement depicts the battle for civil rights as told by its foot soldiers. They rode where they weren't supposed to ride, walked where they weren't supposed to walk, and sat where they weren't supposed to sit--They stood their ground until they won their freedom." Click to the right to watch a video from the Southern Poverty Law Center, "A Time for Justice." Below see charts covering African-American organizations of this era (I got this great information from a friend at an AP grading years ago.)
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The Kennedy Assassination
Perhaps no event in the modern era is more engrained on our culture than the last assassination of a President of the United States. Certainly, no event has given life to a more disseminated set of conspiracy theories. Was President Kennedy killed by a single crazed gunman or a vast conspiracy?
The Election of 1964 on Television
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By 1964 Television (T.V) was having a major impact on Presidential Elections, as almost all Americans now had T.V. From the 1952 Eisenhower campaign commercials excliaming "I like Ike" to the first televised debates in the close 1960 Election, which many believe helped John Kennedy beat Richard Nixon, the new media had changed politics. 1964 saw a full commercial campaign battle for a new and numerous T.V. audience. Click below to see the results.
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Actively Learn: Cultural Upheaval of the 1960s.
Two Days in October
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"In October 1967, history turned a corner. In a jungle in Vietnam, a Viet Cong ambush nearly wiped out an American battalion, prompting some in power to question whether the war might be unwinnable. On a campus in Wisconsin, a student protest against the war spiraled out of control, marking the first time that a campus anti-war demonstration had turned violent.
From Robert Kenner, director of the groundbreaking film Food, Inc., Two Days in October tells the emotionally wrenching parallel stories. The film features firsthand accounts from the people whose lives were irrevocably changed by what happened — American and Viet Cong soldiers, relatives of men killed in battle, protesting students, police officers, and university faculty and administrators. Collectively, their words speak to the heartbreak caused by the war and the stark division it wrought on the home front. Two Days in October is based on the book They Marched Into Sunlight, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss." Winner of the 2005 Peabody Award and the 2006 Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Non-Fiction Filmmaking |
Viet Nam: War on T.V.
Some of the most famous videos and photographs of the Vietnam War. Never before had a war been covered in such an thorough way. On television every night, the images of the war helped turn many Americans against America's efforts to save South Vietnam from communism. Warning. These are disturbing images.
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The Women's Rights Movement
1968:
The Year that Shaped a Generation
The Year that Shaped a Generation
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Turbulent, deadly, controversial, and amazing. 1968 was a year of war, protests, riots, assassinations, murder, comebacks, and achievement. There have only been a handful of years in American history that so affected and changed the course of our Nation as did '68. Perhaps the only thing that saved this year at all was Apollo 8, and the emergence of a little light that shined in the darkness-Little Donny Ginn was born!
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One Giant Leap
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In the context of the Cold War, American determination and skill produced the most dramatic moments of the 20th Century, ultimately reaching Luna (Our Moon) by 1968. The Apollo missions of NASA, built on the lessons of Gemini, Mercury, did more than highlight American exceptionalism--the landing on the Moon became humanity's great achievement, shared by the Astronauts involved with the world, despite the conflict that gripped the era.
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Actively Learn: The Rise and Fall of Richard Nixon
Watergate
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After the Vietnam experience, the Pentagon Papers' release, and the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination, the Watergate scandal becomes the last nail in the coffin of inherent trust and confidence in the American government. It also destroys a presidency. Watch the video to learn about the break in that changed American history.
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The Century: Live From Tehran (ABC)
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How did one event, in 1979, help to doom a presidency and set the stage for over 40 years of confrontation between the United States and fundamental Islam? Watch the video to find out. Amazing! I miss Peter Jennings.
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Exam Skills: SAQ (Short Answer Question)-Liberalism and Conservatism in the 1970s
See the question below. From The American Pageant Teacher Resource Guide, Cengage Learning, 2016. By Time Greene.
Love Canal; Poisoned Playground
Reading Guide X
Period 9 (1980-Present)
In the long twilight of the Cold War, Americans recover from the economic malaise of the 1970s, see the collapse of the Soviet Union, and face the new international threat of Mideast cultivated terrorism. As new millennium dawns, American society faces challenges to cultural social norms, as a variety of civil rights and social movements achieve greater acceptance and voice.
Chapter 39. The Resurgence of Conservatism, 1980-1992
Chapter 40. America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2000
Chapter 41. The American People Face the New Century, 2001-2014
Themes:
Geography and the Environment (GEO)
Work, Exchange, and Technology (WXT)
American and National Identity (NAT)
Politics and Power (POL)
America in the World (WOR)
Migration and Settlement (MIG)
Culture and Society (CUL)
In the long twilight of the Cold War, Americans recover from the economic malaise of the 1970s, see the collapse of the Soviet Union, and face the new international threat of Mideast cultivated terrorism. As new millennium dawns, American society faces challenges to cultural social norms, as a variety of civil rights and social movements achieve greater acceptance and voice.
Chapter 39. The Resurgence of Conservatism, 1980-1992
Chapter 40. America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2000
Chapter 41. The American People Face the New Century, 2001-2014
Themes:
Geography and the Environment (GEO)
Work, Exchange, and Technology (WXT)
American and National Identity (NAT)
Politics and Power (POL)
America in the World (WOR)
Migration and Settlement (MIG)
Culture and Society (CUL)
The Sagebrush Revolution:
The Reagan Era & Conservatism
The Reagan Era & Conservatism
The Legacy of Ronald Reagan is still being debated, shaped, and determined. What made this man the leading heroic figure of modern conservatism, and, for others, the heartless director of pitiless economic theory and warmongering.
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Actively Learn: The Cold War Ends
The Clinton Era (The 1990s)
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Timeline
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THE BIRTH OF HIP HOP
The Case:
"A hip hop enthusiast from New York City has always heard that 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx is the birthplace of hip hop.
The story goes that on August 11, 1973 DJ Kool Herc, a building resident, was entertaining at his sister’s back-to-school party, and tried something new on the turntable: he extended an instrumental beat (breaking or scratching) to let people dance longer (break dancing) and began MC’ing (rapping) during the extended breakdancing.
This, the contributor believes, marked the birth of hip hop. The music led to an entire cultural movement that’s altered generational thinking – from politics and race to art and language.
History Detectives sets out to examine an inner city environment that helped lay the foundation for a cultural revolution."
"A hip hop enthusiast from New York City has always heard that 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx is the birthplace of hip hop.
The story goes that on August 11, 1973 DJ Kool Herc, a building resident, was entertaining at his sister’s back-to-school party, and tried something new on the turntable: he extended an instrumental beat (breaking or scratching) to let people dance longer (break dancing) and began MC’ing (rapping) during the extended breakdancing.
This, the contributor believes, marked the birth of hip hop. The music led to an entire cultural movement that’s altered generational thinking – from politics and race to art and language.
History Detectives sets out to examine an inner city environment that helped lay the foundation for a cultural revolution."
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COMING SOON