Another Tiny Test (1/2 30 and 31) and a Free DBQ . . . yes, it rhymes with "Woohoo!"

Your Multiple Choice Test (Tuesday 2/28/12):

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

Your DBQ (Wednesday 2/29/12):

• will be related to the successes and failures of the USA's attempted ratification of Treaty of Versailles (see below...click image to enlarge)

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?



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

When: Wednesday (2/22/12)
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: ~35-40 multiple choice questions + amazing bonus questions

Ponder the following for success on this test (CLICK ON IMAGE TO SEE A LARGER VERSION):


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 or whom is that scary woman about to chop with that axe?  Why?

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?

Good Luck!

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 . . . that means summarize it.
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 . . . ask your Physics teacher!), 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 your 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 Tuesday 2/22/12.
• Make sure your choice is unique . . . you know the drill . . . go to Option #2 if someone has already chosen your Option #1!

Good Luck . . . .

It's a Cute Teddy Bear with a Big Stick . . . Ch. 27-28 Test Time!

Reminder:  Your Imperialism HW (using the Google definitions packet) is due Thursday!

Your Ch. 27-28 Multiple Choice test and Binder Check will be on Friday 2/10/12 and your DBQ will be Monday 2/13/12.

The MC test will be ~35-40 questions plus 3 challenging regular bonus questions.

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

Things to ponder (click on images to see a larger version):

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!



Imperialism and the USA

Who wants 10 easy points . . . take this IMPERIALISM SURVEY NOW!  Complete by 2/9/12 at 11:59pm!

Finally . . . It's Test Time Again! (Ch. 23-26)

MC portion Tuesday 1/31, Non-MC Portion Wednesday 2/1

Test Hints and Tips:
1) There will be approximately 55-60 multiple choice questions and 6-8 total bonus and "special" bonus questions . . . read the directions carefully! 
2) Look at the documents in the Non-MC Portion Hints section below . . . you may see some of these on the multiple choice portion, as well.
3) Analyze the cartoons below (click on them to see a larger version):
A. In the cartoon below, who is the gentleman?  What is the cartoon implying about him?  How did he get his power?

B. In the cartoon below, the caption says: THE TRUST GIANT'S POINT OF VIEW "What a funny little government" . . . what is this cartoon implying about the government and its relationship to the trusts?

C. Who are Cyrus Field and Jay Gould?  What are they holding in front them, and what do these things have to do with the point the cartoonist is trying to make?

D. What is happening to Uncle Sam in the cartoon below?  Is this cartoon pro- or anti-immigration?

E. What is Lady Liberty doing in the cartoon below?  Why?  Who are the people in the background, and what do they have to do with the two people in the foreground?  Is this cartoon pro- or anti-immigration?

Non-MC Portion Hints, Tips, and Documents  (topic = Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois . . . know them both . . . know them well!):
Contrast this document and author . . .
“To those of the white race who look to the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange tongue and habits for the prosperity of the South, were I permitted I would repeat what I say to my own race,“Cast down your bucket where you are.” Cast it down among the eight millions of Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you have tested in days when to have proved treacherous meant the ruin of your firesides. Cast down your bucket among these people who have, without strikes and labour wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, built your railroads and cities, and brought forth treasures from the bowels of the earth, and helped make possible this magnificent representation of the progress of the South. Casting down your bucket among my people, helping and encouraging them as you are doing on these grounds, and to education of head, hand, and heart, you will find that they will buy your surplus land, make blossom the waste places in your fields, and run your factories. While doing this, you can be sure in the future, as in the past, that you and your families will be surrounded by the most patient, faithful, law-abiding, and unresentful people that the world has seen. As we have proved our loyalty to you in the past, in nursing your children, watching by the sick-bed of your mothers and fathers, and often following them with tear-dimmed eyes to their graves, so in the future, in our humble way, we shall stand by you with a devotion that no foreigner can approach, ready to lay down our lives, if need be, in defense of yours, interlacing our industrial, commercial, civil, and religious life with yours in a way that shall make the interests of both races one. In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress....


The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing. No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized. It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of these privileges. The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera-house.”

Booker T. Washington “Atlanta Compromise Address” (September 18, 1895)


. . . with this document and author . . . 

“They do not expect that the free right to vote, to enjoy civic rights, and to be educated, will come in a moment; they do not expect to see the bias and prejudices of years disappear at the blast of a trumpet; but they are absolutely certain that the way for a people to gain their reasonable rights is not by voluntarily throwing them away and insisting that they do not want them; that the way for a people to gain respect is not by continually belittling and ridiculing themselves; that, on the contrary, Negroes must insist continually, in season and out of season, that voting is necessary to modern manhood, that color discrimination is barbarism, and that black boys need education as well as white boys.”

Source:  W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903)

Check out the graphs below . . . how do these statistics relate to the philosophies and methods of Washington and Du Bois?

Your Favorite Western Character 1865-1890

1) Choose your favorite character of "The West" (someone who actually lived and became famous in that region of the USA in the timeframe 1865-1890). . . your choice must be unique . . . try your second favorite if number one is already chosen.
2) Describe, in your own words, for what he/she is famous.
3) Explain why that person is your favorite.
4) Connect your choice from "The West" to someone actually living and famous from nowadays (this comparison person must also be unique) . . . explain how/why you see your two choices as similar.
5) This is a 10 point assignment, due by 2/1/12 at 11:59pm, as a comment to this post (first name, last initial, class period).
Good Luck!