Chapter 14: The Great Depression Begins (1929-1933)
Section 1: The Nation’s Sick Economy

1. Summarize Gordon Parks feelings on the early days of the Great Depression.
2. Give specific examples to show how the superficial prosperity of the late 1920s hid troubling weaknesses in the country.
3. Identify reasons why agriculture suffered more throughout the 1920s than any other part of the country.
4. How were Americans able to live beyond their means in the 1920s?
5. How was the distribution of income so unequal in the United States during the 1920s?  How was this bad for the economy?
6. What is the economic significance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
7. What is “speculation”? What does it mean to “buy on margin”?  How did these practices contribute to creating the Great Depression?
8. What happened on “Black Tuesday”?
9. Why did so many banks fail so quickly during the early 1930s?
10. How many people were unemployed in 1929? 1933?
11. What happened to ordinary workers during the Great Depression?
12. List the major causes of the Great Depression.

Follow the link below to get an online version of chapter 14

https://icomets.org/ush-textbook/ch14.pdf

Chapter 19: Drifting Towards Disunion 1854-1861 (One pagers are due Monday 12/19)

Terms to Know: Uncle Tom’s Cabin The Impending Crisis of the South New England Emigrant Aid Company Bleeding Kansas Dred Scott v. Stanford panic of 1857 Tariff of 1857 Lincoln-Douglas Debates Freeport question Freeport Doctrine Harpers Ferry Constitutional Union Party Confederate States of America Crittenden Amendments

People to Know: Harriet Beecher Stowe Charles Sumner Preston Brooks Dred Scott Roger Taney Stephen Douglas Abraham Lincoln John Brown John Breckinridge John Jordan Crittenden

Questions:

1. How did the political developments of the period work to fragment the Democratic Party and benefit the Republicans?

2. Could the Crittenden Compromise or some other proposal have prevented or at least postponed the Civil War? Why was compromise successful in 1820 and 1850, but not in 1860?

Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle (one pagers are due Monday 12/19)

Key terms: Popular sovereignty Free Soil Party California Gold Rush Underground railroad Seventh of March Speech Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Law Ostend Manifesto Treaty of Kanagawa Gadsden Purchase Kansas-Nebraska Act

People to Know: Lewis Cass Zachary Taylor Harriet Tubman Milliard Fillmore Franklin Pierce Caleb Cushing Matthew C. Perry

Questions:

1. How did the Compromise of 1850 attempt to deal with the most difficult issues concerning slavery? Was the Compromise a success? By what standard?

2. What were the causes and consequences of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

It will be helpful to key in on the bold terms from the following list and the ideas at the bottom of the page.

Period 4 Terms to Know Louisiana Purchase Lewis and Clark Expedition Impressment James Madison War Hawks Tecumseh and the Prophet Treaty of Ghent The Hartford Convention Henry Clay and the American System Second Bank of  the United States Tariff of 1816 The Monroe Doctrine The Missouri Compromise John Marshall and the Marshall Court Marbury v. Madison  and judicial review McCulloch v. Maryland Gibbons v. Ogden Lowell Factory System

Cotton Gin Interchangeable Parts Doctrine of Separate Spheres Southern Social Hierarchy Market Economy Second Great Awakening Charles G. Finney Unitarianism Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and Mormonism Transcendentalists Dorthea Dix American Temperance Union Horace Mann The  Seneca Falls Convention American Colonization Society William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, and The American Anti-Slavery Society Fredrick Douglas

It would also be helpful to know the ideas surrounding the following:

• Jefferson’s government (events & beliefs)
• Know Nothing Party (importance & beliefs)
• Slavery (trends, rebellions, need for, what slave society looked like)
• Indian Removal Act
• Immigration trends in Period 4
• Andrew Jackson government (events and beliefs)
• Nullification

There is an open practice test for Period 4 on my ilearn site. You will find it with the Period 4 materials.

With the snow day the Period 4 Exam will be moved to Wednesday December 14th.

The quiz will be over the following terms:

Chapter 12

• Nativism-
• Isolationism-
• Communism-
• Anarchist-
• Socco and Vanzetti-
• Quota System-
• Urban Sprawl-
• Installment Plan-

Chapter 13

• Prohibition-
• Speakeasy-
• Bootlegger-
• Fundamentalism-
• Clarence Darrow-
• Scopes Trial-
• Flapper-
• Double Standard-
• Charles A. Lindbergh-
• Scott Fitzgerald-
• Ernest Hemingway-

Some Period 4 review materials are on my ilearn site. There are some key questions, terms and a Period 4 review PowerPoint presentation.

Attached is the Period 4 DBQ that we will be using in class today.

period-4-dbq  (PDF)

period-4-dbq  (Word)

Chapter 17 Terms:

Webster-Ashburton Treaty Wilmot Proviso Horace Greely John Slidell Ostend Manifesto

Matthew Perry John Frémont Manifest Destiny Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty 54’40 or Fight

Chapter 17 Questions:

1. What led to the rise of the spirit of ” Manifest Destiny” in the 1840’s and how did the spirit show itself in the American expansionism of the decade?
2. How was the “Manifest Destiny” of the 1840’s- particularly the expansion into Texas and Mexico- related to the sectional conflict over slavery?