Usiing specific examples from the movie and your text, describe SEABISCUIT as a metaphor for America in the 30's.
Read the next section of material.
Both Classes are turning in current events either today (D) or tommorrow (A).
We have a depression unit test coming up Friday or Monday depending on our progress.
read chapter 5
i'll be available for anytime you need or want for test prep.
this can include tutorial (i have a meeting tommorrow from 7:20 so be there early, and expect my time to be short
lunch (good for a quick review of essay topics
after school evenings: by appointment. it would have to be 7 or 8, but we can meet at school, or at starbucks if a group of 2 or 3 students prefers
if you want to know what to study, come in for practice tests, avail yourself of my time for test review, and if you want, we can do a weekend cram session.
after the test, we'll have unit tests on chapters 19,20,4, and 5. We'll have time for test corrections. We'll watch a couple government relevant documentaries, with mandatory discussion, and we'll have in class debates based on positions related to the elections: you may have to defend a position that is not 'yours', so stay sharp.
good luck seniors, as you prepare to take tests, and move on with your lives. you're awesome, and have unique characteristic as students and people that will serve you well.
Lineberry 4
1. Civil Liberties
2. Bill of Rights
3. First Amendment
4. Barron V. Baltimore
5. Gitlow v. New York
6. Fourteenth Amendment
7. Incorporation doctrine
8. Establishment Clause
9. Free Exercise Clause
10. Lemon v. Kurtzman
11. Zelman v. Simmons – Harris
12. Engel v. Vitale
13. School District of Abington Township, Pennsylvania v. Shempp
14. Prior restrain
15. Permissible v. Impermissible speech
16. Near v. Minnesota
17. Schenk v. US
18. Private property and free speech
19. Zurcher v. Stanford Daily
20. Roth v. US
21. Miller v. California
22. Libel
23. NYTIMES v. Sullivan
24. Texas v. Johnson
25. Symbolic Speech
26. Commercial speech
27. Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo
28. Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission
29. Freedom of Assembly
30. NAACP v. Alabama
31. Defendents right
32. Probable Cause
33. Unreasonable search and seizure
34. Search Warrant
35. Exclusionary Rule
36. Mapp v. Ohio
37. Fifth Amendment
38. Self-incrimination
39. Miranda v. Arizona
40. Sixth Amendment
41. Gideon v. Wainwright
42. Plea Bargaining
43. Eigth Amendment
44. Cruel and unusual punishment
45. Gregg v. Georgia
46. McCleskey v. Kemp
47. Right to Privacy
48. Roe V. Wade
49. Planned Parenthood v. Casey
pp. 498-503
FDR
New Deal
1932 Election
10 FDR FActs
Gold Standard
Bank Holiday
100 days
1st new deal
Roosevelts Advisers
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Fireside Chats
Securities Act of 1933
SEC
FDIC
1. Foreign Policy
2. Military
3. Economic
4. New countries
5. UN
6. Security Council
7. NATO
8. EU
9. Multi nationals
10. NGO’s
11. Individuals
12. President’s role
13. Secretary state
14. Foggy Bottom
15. Secretary of Defense
16. Joint Chiefs of Staff
17. NSC –
18. Iran Contra
19. CIA
20. Isolationism
21. Containment doctrince (and end to isolationism)
22. Cold war
23. McCarthyism
24. Military industrial complex
25. Pentagon capitalism
26. Arms race
27. Dien Bien Phu
28. Détente
29. Reagan rearmament
30. SDI
31. War on Terror
32. Discuss figure 20.2
33. Interdependency
34. Tariff
35. Nafta
36. Explain figure 20.4
Depression Photo Project
US History
Smith
Due 4/28
Assignement:
A poster displaying 15 (minimum) Photographs of the depression Era.
5 pictures Each…
- 20’s/ How life changed
- Life in the Depression
- New Deal activities/ programs
Connect it to today.
Graded on
- completion
- presentation / artistic component
- title
- on time
30 pts
Due next Monday.
1. What is the paradox of US health policy?
2. Describe US health care relative to other nations?
3. Cost of our health care?
4. How might we cut costs?
5. Define HMO
6. Types of health care Americans get?
7. Amount of uninsured?
8. Origin of US health insurance?
9. Relationship of Age and Insurance?
10. Strength of Manged care?
11. Weaknesses of Managed care?
12. Patient’s Bill of Rights
13. Nature of US Health care (public/private).
14. National Health Insurance
15. Medicare
16. Problems of Medicare?
17. Medicaid
18. What is the priority of US health care?
19. AARP and politics of health?
20. Business?
21. Insurance
22. Stemcells
23. Where does gas money go?
24. EPA
25. NEPA
26. EIS
27. CAA of 1970
28. Water Pollution Control Act (1972)
29. Wilderness protection
30. ESA 1973
31. Superfund
32. Energy sources
33. Oil and politics
34. Kyoto
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CHAPTER 7 Terms
US HISTORY
1. Sacco-Vanzetti
2. KKK
3. William Simmons
4. Emergency Quota Act
5. Newlands Reclamation Act
6. Edith Wharton
7. Margaret Sanger
8. Margaret mead
9. Billy Sunday
10. John Scopes
11. Volstead Act
12. Speakeasy
13. 18th amendment
14. al capone
15. Elliot Ness
16. Flapper
17. Lindbergh
18. Carl Sandburg
19. Eugene O’Neill
20. Hemingway
21. Fitzgerald
22. Babe ruth
23. Red Grange
24. Helen Willis
25. Douglas Fairbanks
26. Great Migration
27. Harlem Renaissance
28. Langston Hughes
29. Jazz
30. Cotton club
31. Blues
32. NAACP
33. Marcus Garvey
CHAPTER 18 terms.
1. Premise of 2 income trap
2. The working poor
3. Safety net
4. Survey about your wealth and fortune
5. Social welfare programs
6. Money to non poor
7. Entitlement program
8. Means tested programs
9. Conflict over means tested progras
10. ‘deserving poor’
11. purchasing power of US
12. income gap in us
13. explain table 18.1
14. income distribution
15. income
16. wealth
17. who is rich
18. poverty line
19. pov line for family of 3.
20. Who has experienced a year of poverty
21. Barbara Ehrenreich
22. For whom is poverty more ommon
23. How many Homeless
24. Poverty by race (table 18.2)
25. Feminization of poverty
26. What is the superhighway to poverty
27. Progressive tax
28. Proportional tax
29. Regressive tax
30. EITC
31. Transfer payment
32. Soc. Security Act
33. Marten Gilens
34. Media and ‘race coding’
35. PRWORA
36. TANF
37. FDR’s goal for policy
38. Change in Ratio of workers to Recipients
39. Social Security Trust fund.
40. Life span and social security
ch17AP GOV
CH 17 (Part 1)
1. Capitalism
2. Mixed Economy
3. Multinational corporations
4. Walmart Facts related to impact to American and global economy (listed over 3 pages).
5. SEC
6. Minimum wage
7. Labor Union
8. Collective Bargaining
9. Irony of Sam Walton’s autobiography
10. Clinton’s motto
11. Economic conditions and voters’ choice?
12. The Parties views on the economy?
13. 2004 election and economy?
14. Unemployment rate?
15. Discouraged worker?
16. Summarize graph17.1
17. Inflation
18. Consumer Price Index
19. Summarize graph 17.2
20. Laissez-faire
21. Monetary policy
22. Monetarism
23. Federal reserve system
24. Fiscal policy
25. Keynesian economic theory
26. Supply Side Economic
27. Laffer Curve
28. Why is it hard for President’s to control the economy
29. Protectionism
30. WTO
31. L1-B Visa
32. Goals of Business and Public Policy
33. Impact of Corporate corruption
34. Anti trust policy
35. FDA
36. NLRA
Essays: On separate paper, typed or written legibly, create outlines for each of the following. You will turn them all in. They must be neat, bullet point or outline form, in ink.
1. Why is Theodore Roosevelt considered the most progressive president of all time? (give at least 15 points total about his early life, early political life, and presidency)
2. What were the Major Causes of WWI, and clarify specific events that led to the US entering the war? (list and explain causes. Define terms. Give specific examples. Must cover start of war, and US entry into war.)
3. How did daily life change from 1865 to 1900?
(be specific, and detailed. Life in the city, life on the farm, industry, shipping. Changes in ‘a day in the life’ and how did things look, feel, smell different.)
4. Discuss the concept of Big Business in US History, and how it contributed to the growth of the industrial society.
(cover inventions, growth of industry, life in the cities. Growth of cities, etc. See Test 2 Review on the blog).
5. Discuss the Role of RR in increased agriculture, increased ranching, decreased bison, decreased native Americans.
Intro
RR Developments
Innovations
Transcontinental, etc.
See test review 2.
6. Discuss reform as it applied to urban life and work.
See test 2 review.
7. What were the concerns, successes, and limitations of progressivism?
8. How did inventions, production and power transform work, production and labor in the early 20th century?
9. What were the major factors contributing to the urbanization of America in the late 19th/Early 20th century?
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Here is the beginning of my post. 1. The 20’s – A conservative Decade.
2. Nativism
a. Sacco-Vanzetti
b. Anarchists
c. Psudo0Scientific Racism
i. Eugenics
d. KKK
e. Wm. J. Simmons
3. Controlling Immigration
a. Emergency Quota Act
b. National Origins Act
c. Hispanic Immigration act
4. New Morality
5. Women in the 20’s
a. Flapper
b. Successful Women
6. Fundamentalism
a. Response to…
b. Fundamentalist Beliefs
i. Evolution
ii. Creationism
iii. Billy Sunday
iv. Scopes Trial
7. Prohibition
a. 18th Amendment
b. Speakeasy
Here is the beginning of my post.
1. 2 kinds of court cases? Explain.
2. 3 types of participants in Judicial System?
3. Jurisdiction of district courts?
4. How many criminal cases go to trial?
5. How many civil cases go to trial?
6. What is a diversity of citizenship case?
7. How many judicial circuits?
8. What is the difference between a judge and a justice?
9. Role of partisanship in selection of judges?
10. Define the following:
11. Standing to Sue
12. Class action suits
13. Justiciable disputes
14. Amicus curiae brief
15. Original jurisdiction
16. Appellate jurisdiction
17. District courts
18. Court of appeal
19. Supreme court
20. Senatorial Courtesy
21. How many cases submitted to supreme court each year?
22. Explain writ of certiorari?
23. Explain what court cases are likely to be selected by the courts?
24. Define solicitor General?
25. How many cases heard each year?
26. Define Per curiam decision?
27. Define amicus curiae briefs?
28. Define opinion?
29. Who writes the opinion?
30. Dissenting opinion?
31. Concurring opinion?
32. Stare decisis?
33. Precedents?
34. Can the court over rule it’s own decisions. Give example.
35. Define judicial implementation.
36. Define original intent
37. Define the 3 eras of Courts and policies (p. 526)
38. Explain Marbury v. Madison.
39. Define judicial review?
40. Explain the ‘9 old men’
41. What was the role of the warren court?
42. Explain the character of the Burger Court
43. Explain US v. Nixon
44. How do the courts serve as a check on the tyranny of the majority?
45. Explain judicial restraint?
46. Explain judicial activism.
47. What is the doctrine of political questions?
48. What is statutory construction?