Schedule (subject to change, but always with notice) UNIT I: 1877-1914 -date- -topic- -Readings Due- -Quizzes/Tests- W 1/20 Introduction - - F 1/22 Big Questions in US - - History/Civil War M 1/25 Was Reconstruction a Success? [OS]: Chapter 16 W 1/27 Was Reconstruction a Success? [PP]: “This is a White Man’s Reading Quiz 1 Government,” “The First Vote,” (on blackboard – and “Worse than Slavery” BEFORE class) F 1/29 Was Reconstruction a Success? - - M 2/1 Just how “Wild” was the Wild [OS]: Chapter 17 - West? (1 – How the west grew) W 2/3 Just how “Wild” was the Wild [PP]: newspaper editorial and Reading Quiz 2 West? (2 – Who won – and who congressional testimony on the (on blackboard – lost – the west?) Sand Creek Massacre BEFORE class) F 2/5 Just how “Wild” was the Wild - - West? (3 – why the frontier closed) M 2/8 How did the U.S. become a world [OS]: Chapter 22 - power? (1 – Capitalism) W 2/10 How did the U.S. become a world [PP]: poems: “The White Man’s Reading Quiz 3 (on power? (2 – The Spanish Burden” & “The Real White Man’s blackboard – American War) Burden” BEFORE class) F 2/12 How did the U.S. become a world - - power? (3 – Empire) M 2/15 Review Session 1 Go over study guide before class W 2/17 Exam 1 Exam 1 in Class UNIT II: 1914-1960 -topic- - Readings Due - Quizzes/Tests F The U.S. in World War I [OS]: Chapter 23 - 2/19 M Were the 1920s forward looking or [OS]: Chapter 24 - 2/22 backward looking? (1 – isolation politics) W Were the 1920s forward looking or [PP]: prohibition political cartoons Reading Quiz 4 2/24 backward looking? (2 – prohibition) (on blackboard – BEFORE class) F Were the 1920s forward looking or - - 2/26 backward looking? (3 – consumer culture)
Schedule (subject to change, but always with notice) UNIT I: 1877-1914 -date- -topic- -Readings Due- -Quizzes/Tests- W 1/20 Introduction - - F 1/22 Big Questions in US History/Civil War - - M 1/25 Was Reconstruction a Success? [OS]: Chapter 16 W 1/27 Was Reconstruction a Success? [PP]: “This is a White Man’s Government,” “The First Vote,” and “Worse than Slavery” Reading Quiz 1 (on blackboard – BEFORE class) F 1/29 Was Reconstruction a Success? - - M 2/1 Just how “Wild” was the Wild West? (1 – How the west grew) [OS]: Chapter 17 - W 2/3 Just how “Wild” was the Wild West? (2 – Who won – and who lost – the west?) [PP]: newspaper editorial and congressional testimony on the Sand Creek Massacre Reading Quiz 2 (on blackboard – BEFORE class) F 2/5 Just how “Wild” was the Wild West? (3 – why the frontier closed) - - M 2/8 How did the U.S. become a world power? (1 – Capitalism) [OS]: Chapter 22 - W 2/10 How did the U.S. become a world power? (2 – The Spanish American War) [PP]: poems: “The White Man’s Burden” & “The Real White Man’s Burden” Reading Quiz 3 (on blackboard – BEFORE class) F 2/12 How did the U.S. become a world power? (3 – Empire) - - M 2/15 Review Session 1 Go over study guide before class W 2/17 Exam 1 Exam 1 in Class UNIT II: 1914-1960 -topic- - Readings Due - Quizzes/Tests F 2/19 The U.S. in World War I [OS]: Chapter 23 - M 2/22 Were the 1920s forward looking or backward looking? (1 – isolation politics) [OS]: Chapter 24 - W 2/24 Were the 1920s forward looking or backward looking? (2 – prohibition) [PP]: prohibition political cartoons Reading Quiz 4 (on blackboard – BEFORE class) F 2/26 Were the 1920s forward looking or backward looking? (3 – consumer culture) - -
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