It's Time for Another Mini-Test (1/2 30 + 31 on the Great War) and a Free DBQ!

Your Multiple Choice Test (Friday 2/25/11):

• approximately 35-40 questions + bonus
• will have some quote and political cartoon analysis (see below)
  

Your DBQ (Monday 2/28/11):

• will be related to the successes and failures of the USA's attempted ratification of Treaty of Versailles (see below)
• know your 6 paragraph essay format!

1) Who is getting married in the cartoon below?  Who is breaking in to stop the ceremony?  Why?

2) What is the "Peace Treaty" in the cartoon below?  What happened to the Peace Treaty in the Operating Room?  Who is the gentleman escorting the Peace Treaty from the Operating Room, and what relationship does he have to the Treaty?

3) Vulture . . . what vulture?  Who is the man in the bed, and what is he afraid of?  Why?  What specific real-life historical figures might the man in the bed represent?

4) Who are the gentlemen in the cartoon below?  Who is the boy, and why is he crying?  What in the world does this have to do with the Great War and/or the Treaty of Versailles?  Tiger . . . what Tiger?

5) What is "Article X" in the quote below?  Is Wilson arguing for or against the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles in this quote?  Why?

When you read Article X, therefore, you will see that it is nothing but the inevitable, logical center of the whole system of the Covenant of the League of Nations, and I stand for it absolutely. If it should ever in any important respect be impaired, I would feel like asking the Secretary of War to get the boys who went across the water to fight, . . . and I would stand up before them and say, Boys, I told you before you went across the seas that this was a war against wars, and I did my best to fulfill the promise, but I am obliged to come to you in mortification and shame and say I have not been able to fulfill the promise. You are betrayed. You have fought for something that you did not get.

Source: Woodrow Wilson, Speech, September 5, 1919.

6) Examine the chart below.  What does it tell you about USA motivations to enter or not enter the Great War?



Your Ch. 29 + 1/2 30 Mini-Test on Progressives . . .

When: This Friday (2/18/11)
Where: D16
Who: All of the important people
How: With a No. 2 pencil, scantron, test booklet, and your brilliance
Why: It will make you a better person
What: ~37 multiple choice questions + another 5-8 bonus questions

Ponder the following in order to impress with your test:

1) What does the author of this quote think about muckrakers?  Why?

To assail the great and admitted evils of our political and industrial life with such crude and sweeping generalizations as to include decent men in the general condemnation means the searing of the public conscience. There results a general attitude either of cynical belief in and indifference to public corruption or else of a distrustful inability to discriminate between the good and the bad. Either attitude is fraught with untold damage to the country as a whole. The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well-nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad. There is nothing more distressing to every good patriot, to every good American, than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter.



Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition.


Source: The Man With the Muck-Rake, Theodore Roosevelt, April 14, 1906

2) Who are the people in the cartoon below?  Why is the man with glasses singing?  How does the other man feel about the song?





3) What is that woman about to chop with that axe?

4) Who are the gentlemen in the cartoon below?  What does each appear to desire?  What is the historical context for this cartoon?



5) What does this cartoon have to do with the Progressive Era?  Is it in support of progressive goals or opposed to progressive goals?

The Progressive Era Reformer You Would Most Like to Meet!

Choose the Progressive Era (~1890-1920) reformer you would most like to meet:

1) Name him or her.
2) Give a short biography of that person (birth, death, etc.) in your own words.
3) Describe what he/she said/did during the progressive era that made him/her a progressive . . . what was he/she fighting to change?
4) Describe where and when you would like to meet him/her (time travel can happen!), explain why you would like to meet him/her, and describe what you would talk about.
5) Evaluate this person's achievements . . . is the world a better place today because of what this person fought for?  If so, how?  If not, why not?

• Comment to this post with your first name, last initial, and class period.
• This is a 10 point assignment, due by 11:59pm on Friday 2/18/11.
• Make sure your choice is unique . . . you know the drill . . . go to Option #2 if someone has already chosen your Option #1!

Good Luck . . . and remember, I'm only assigning you this because I love you . . . Happy Valentine's Day!

It's a Teddy Bear with a Big Stick . . . How Cute! . . . and it's Test Time, Too!



Your Ch. 27-28 Multiple Choice test will be on Wednesday 2/9/11 and your DBQ (and binder check) will be Thursday 2/10/11.

The MC test will be ~36 questions plus 3 challenging regular bonus questions.

You already have a pretty good idea what the DBQ topic will be.

Things to ponder:

1) According to the quote below, why should the USA acquire foreign territories?

It seems to me that God, with infinite wisdom and skill, is training the Anglo-Saxon race for an hour sure to come in the world’s future. . . . The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken. . . . Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history -- the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled. . . . Then this race of unequalled energy, with all the majesty of numbers and the might of wealth behind it -- the representative let us hope, of the largest liberty, the purest Christianity, the highest civilization . . . will spread itself over the earth. If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the result of this competition of races will be the “survival of the fittest”?


Source: Josiah Strong, Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis, New York: American Home Missionary Society, 1885.


2) Who is the gentleman in the cartoon?  What is he carrying?  Where is he carrying it?  Why is he carrying it?

3) In the Supreme Court decision below, what is the Court saying about territory and people acquired by the USA?  How is this similar to, and different from, prior territorial acquisitions by the USA?
We are also of opinion that the power to acquire territory by treaty implies, not only the power to govern such territory, but to prescribe upon what terms the United States will receive its inhabitants, and what their status shall be in what Chief Justice Marshall termed the “American empire.” . . . Indeed, it is doubtful if Congress would ever assent to the annexation of territory upon the condition that its inhabitants, however foreign they may be to our habits, traditions and modes of life, shall become at once citizens of the United States. In all its treaties hitherto the treaty-making power has made special provisions for this subject. . . . In all these cases there is an implied denial of the right of the inhabitants to American citizenship until Congress by further action shall signify its assent thereto. . . .


It is obvious that in the annexation of outlying and distant possessions grave questions will arise from differences of race, habits, laws, and customs of the people, and from differences of soil, climate and production, which may require action on the part of Congress that would be quite unnecessary in the annexation of contiguous territory, inhabited only by people of the same race, or by scattered bodies of native Indians.

Source: Supreme Court Decision. Downes v. Bidwell, (one of the Insular Cases) 1901.

4) Who are these characters?  What are they doing?  What does this cartoon have to do with the USA and imperialism?

5) In the cartoon below, who is riding on whom?  What is the point cartoonist is making about imperialism?

6) Who is the gentleman with the shovel?  What is he doing?  What does this cartoon have to do with imperialism?  How is this related to USA expansionism prior to the late 1800s?

Good Luck!