1)Science & Urban Life

Read: pp. 482-491

Answer: p. 487: Questions 1 & 4.
P. 491: Question 4.

2)Birth of Mass Culture

Read: pp. 498-505

3)The Roots of The Progressive Movement(DOUBLE HW)

Read: pp. 512-522
Answer: p. 518: Questions 1 & 4.
P. 522: Questions 1, 3, & 5.

4)Theodore Roosevelt & The “Muckrakers” Further The Progressive Movement

Read: pp. 523-534
Answer: p. 531: Questions 1, 3, & 5.
P. 533: “Thinking Critically” # 1.

5)Progressivism & The Wilson Administration

Read: pp. 538-543
Answer: p. 543: Questions 1 & 3.
Why did women get the vote?

6)Neo-Imperialism
Read: pp. 548-551
Answer: p. 551: Questions 1, 3, & 5.

7)The Spanish American War

Read: pp. 552-564
Answer: p. 557: Questions 1 & 4.
p. 564: Questions 1 & 4.

8) The Panama Canal

Read: pp. 565-572
Answer: p. 571: Questions 1 & 3.

9)U.S. Entrance into W.W. I

Read: pp. 578-586.
What three events were the immediate causes of U.S. entrance into WWI? (Explain how
these events helped propel the U.S. into the war.)

10)WWI on the Home Front (DOUBLE HW)

Read: pp. 587-603
Answer: p. 601: Questions 1, 2, 3, & 5.
“Cite” the key phrases in the Schenck V. U.S. (1919) Decision. Do you agree with this
decision? Why/why not?
Do you think that the current Supreme Court would decide the same way today? Be sure to
explain your answer.

11)The defeat of the Versailles Treaty

Read: pp. 605-609
Answer: p. 609: Questions 1, 3, & 4.
12)The Red Scare & the “Return to Normalcy”
Read: pp. 618-635
Answer: p. 624: Questions 1, 3, & 5.
ID: “Teapot Dome” Scandal
What economic policies did the Harding and Coolidge Administrations have in common?
To what extent were these policies successful? Prove/explain.

13)1920's Culture
Read: pp. 640-657.
Answer: p. 645: Questions 1, 2, & 5.
P.649: Questions 1 & 4.
Did women’s fashions change because they’d gotten the vote, or did women get the vote
because their fashions had changed? (Deep, huh?) Be sure to defend your answer.

14)Harlem Renaissance
Read: pp. 658-666
Answer: p. 666: Questions 7 & 8.

15)Causes of the Great Depression

Read: pp. 670-677.
Answer: p. 677: Questions 1- 4.

16)The Depression under Hoover(DOUBLE HW)

Read: pp. 678-689
Answer: p. 683: Questions 1-5.
P. 689: Questions: 1, 3, & 4.
17)F.D.R. & The New Deal & The “2nd New Deal”(DOUBLE HW)
Read: pp. 694-707
Answer: p. 700: Questions 1- 5.
P. 707: Question 1 & 3.
18)All Americans are affected by the Depression
Read: pp. 710-720 (DOUBLE HW)
Answer: p. 715: Questions 1-4.
P. 720: Question 1 & “Analyze The Issue” Question “D.”
19)Was The New Deal A Success or a Failure?
Read: pp. 721-727.
Answer: p. 725: Questions 1-3.

20)Inter-War Fascism
Read: pp. 734-755.
Answer: p. 740: “Skill Builder” 1-3.
Prepare a timeline of fascist aggression from 1931-1941.
ID: Neutrality Acts (1935-1939) Were these acts the appropriate reaction to the acts of
aggression identified in your timeline?

21)The Attack on Pearl Harbor propels the U.S. into WWII.

Read: pp. 756-763.
Answer: p. 763: Questions 1, 4, & 5.

22)Mobilizing for WWII

Read: pp. 768-774
Answer: p. 774: Questions 1 & 4.

23)Major Battles of WWII

Read: pp. 775-795.
Answer: p. 783: Question 1
P. 791: “Thinking Critically” 1 & 2.
24)WWII on the Home Front
Read: pp. 796-803
Answer: p. 801: Questions 1, 3, & 4.
Identify the key phrases from the Korematsu decision. Do you agree with this decision?
Explain your answer. Do you think the U.S. Supreme Court would uphold or reverse a
similar case, today? Why/why not?

25)Origins of the Cold War

Read: pp. 808-814
Answer: p. 814: 1 & 4.

26)Containing Communism in Asia

Read: pp. 815-821.
Answer: p. 821: Questions 1, 3, & 5.

27)The Cold War at Home

Read: pp. 822-827.
Answer: p. 827: Questions: 1, 3, & 4.

28)Brinkmanship
Read: pp. 828-835
Answer: p. 833: Questions 1, 2, & 4.
P. 835: “Thinking Critically” # 1.

29)The 1950's: “The Affluent Society”(DOUBLE HW)

Read: 840-869.
Answer: p. 849: “Skill Builder” Questions 1 & 2 on the “baby boom” chart.
P.855: Question 3.
P. 863: Question 1.
P. 869: Questions 1 & 2.
To what extent did the 1950's represent:
A)a homogenized culture B)The first teen culture
Do you agree with Eisenhower’s enforcement of the Brown V. Bd. Of Ed. Decision, in Little
Rock, Ak. In 1957?

30)The Cuban Missile Crisis

Read: pp. 876-884
Answer: p. 884: Questions 1, 2, & 3.

31)Kennedy’s “New Frontier”

Read: pp. 885-891.

32)The “Great Society”

Read: pp. 892-901.
Answer: p. 899: Questions 1 & 2.
“Cite” the key phrases in the Miranda V Arizona Decision. How much of an impact has this
decision had upon the rights of the accused in the United States?
P. 900: “Drawing Conclusions” # 1.

33)The Civil Rights Movement

Read: pp. 906-915.
Answer: p. 913: Questions 1, 2, 3, & 5.
Identify & “cite” the key phrases in the Brown V Bd. Of Ed. Decision. Do you agree with
Eisenhower’s enforcement of this decision, when the “Little Rock 9" attended Central High?

34)The Civil Rights Movement: from De-segregation to Black Nationalism (DOUBLE HW)
 Read: pp. 916-931.
Answer: p. 922: Questions 1, 3, & 4.
P. 923: Questions 1 & 4.
P. 931: “Thinking Critically” # 1.

35) The Vietnam War

Read: pp. 936-941.
Answer: p. 941: Questions 1, 3, & 5.
36) The Americanization of the Vietnam War
Read: pp. 942-947.
Answer: p. 947: Questions 1 - 5.

37)Fighting the Vietnam War at Home

Read: pp. 948-959.
Answer: p. 953: Questions 1, 4, & 5.
P. 959: Questions 1, 3, & 5.

38) The Legacy of the Vietnam War

Read: pp. 960-969.
Answer: p. 967: Questions 1, 3, & 5.
P. 969: “Thinking Critically” # 1.

39)The Civil Rights Movement: Latinos, Native-Americans, & Women

Read: pp. 974-993.
Answer: p. 979 Question 1.
P. 991: Questions 1 & 5.

40)The Nixon Administration: Detente to Watergate (DOUBLE HW)

Read: pp. 1000-1013.
Answer: p. 1007: Questions 1, 2, 3, & 5.
P. 1013: Question 1.

41)The Ford & Carter Administrations:

Read: pp. 1016- 1031
Answer: p. 1023: Questions: 1, 3, & 5.
P. 1031: Question 1.
Identify & “cite” the key phrases in California v. Bakke (1978)
Do you agree with this decision? Why/why not?
Do you think the current Supreme Court would uphold or reverse Bakke v. California, today?
Why?

42)Conservative Resurgence & the Reagan Administration (DOUBLE)

Read: pp. 1036- 1051.
Answer: p. 1044: Questions 1, 2, & 5.
P. 1052: “Thinking Critically.”

43)The End of the Cold War?

Read: pp. 1051-1061.
Answer: p. 1061: Questions: 1, 3, 4, & 5.

44)The 1990's:
Read: pp. 1066-1074
Answer: pp. 1074: Questions: 1, 3, 4, & 5.
45) “The Changing Face of America: in the Global Economy & the Information Age
Read: pp. 1075-1093.
Answer: p. 1079: Question 1.
P. 1087: Question 1.
P. 1093: Question 1.
46)“Issues for the 21st Century”
Read & Outline pp. 1100-1123.