Wednesday, February 25, 2009

HW 2/27 Ch. 29 Sec. 3

Read Chapter 29 Section 3 in your textbook and answer the following questions. Answers should be in blue or black ink or typed and printed.

Due: Monday 3/2

1. Identify the following terms
a. unrestricted submarine warfare
b. total war
c. rationing
d. propaganda
e. armistice

2. What factors helped prompt the U.S. to join the war for the Allies?

3. How did total war lead to rationing?

4. What role did women play in the war?

5. In what ways was World War I truly a global conflict?

BONUS: Can a government ever rightly justify censorship of war news? Why or why not?

HW 2/25 Ch. 29 Sec 2

Read Chapter 29 Section 2 in yout textbook and answer the following questions. Answers should be in blue or black ink or typed and printed.

Due: Friday 2/27

1. Identify the following terms
a. Central Powers (list the countries too)
b. Allies (list the countries too)
c. Western Front
d. Schlieffen Plan
e. Trench Warfare

2. Why did Germany declare war on France?

3. How did Russia's lack of industrialization affect its war efforts?

4. What were the characteristics of trench warfare?

5. How was the war on the Eastern Front different from the war on the Western front? How was it the same?

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

HW 2/24 Ch. 29 Sec. 1

Read Chapter 29 Section 1 in your textbook and answer the following questions. Answers should be in blue or black ink or typed and printed.

Due: Period 7 Wed. 2/25; Period 8 Thurs. 2/26

1. Identify the following terms:
a. militarism
b. Triple Alliance
c. Triple Entente

2. How do imperialism and militarism work together to promote war?

3. Who were the memebers of the Triple Alliance? The members of the Triple Entente?How could a conflict between the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente draw all of Europe into the conflict?

3. What single event set in motion the start of World War I?

4. What were the reasons for hostility between Austria-Hungary and Serbia?

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Study Guide: Industrial Revolution

Exam Topic: The Industrial Revolution

Date: 2/24 Single Period

Review Class on Monday 2/23

Materials to Study:

Notes from Tuesday 2/3 through Friday 2/13
Packet on the Industrial Revolution
-Agrarian Revolution and Other Causes
-Changes in Technology and Demography
-Effects of Society: Women, Children, and the Rise of the Middle Class
-Economic Thought
-The "Evils" of Industry
-Reforms: Labor, Law, Education, and Class Struggle
DBQ Packet on the "New Imperialism"
Textbook
-Chapter 25 Sections 1, 2, 3, 4
-Chapter 26 Sections 1 and 4

Terms to Know:

Listed on the first page of the Agrarian Revolution Packet

Castle Learning:

Multiple Choice is the place where you guys need to become stronger. I suggest that you complete both Castle Learning assignments thoroughly, in order to improve in this area.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

HW 2/11 Ch. 26 Sec. 4

Read Chapter 26 Section 4 in your textbook and answer the following questions.

Due: Friday, 2/13
1. Identify the following terms:
a. assembly line
b. Charles Darwin
c. Theory of Evolution
d. radioactivity
e. psychology
f. mass culture

2. What effects did the assembly line have on production costs?

3. What effect did the spread of public education have on culture?

4. How did the germ theory change living conditions in Europe and in the United States?

Monday, February 9, 2009

HW 2/9 Ch. 26 Sec 1

Read Chapter 26, Section 1 in your textbook and answer the following questions. Answers should be on a separate sheet of paper, in blue or black ink or typed and printed.

Due: Tuesday 2/10

1. Identify the following terms:
a. suffrage
b. Queen Victoria
c. Third Republic
d. anti-Semitism

2. What was an effect of the Reform Bill of 1832?

3. Why did the women's suffrage movement seem radical in the Victorian era?

4. How would you characterize the groups that opposed the Third Republic?

5. What was the connection between anti-Semitism and Zionism?

Friday, February 6, 2009

HW 2/6 Ch. 25 Sec. 4

Read Chapter 25, Section 4 in your textbook and answer the following questions. Answers should be in blue or black ink or typed and printed.

Due: Monday 2/9

1. Identify the following terms:
a. laissez faire
b. Adam Smith
c. capitalism
d. socialism
e. Karl Marx
f. communism
g. union
h. strike

2. What were Adam Smith's three natural laws of economics?

3. What kind of society did early socialists want?

4. Who counts as a "Proletariat?" How are the proletariat and the bourgeoisie interdependent?

5. How did the growth of unions help workers?

6. What do lower wages for women suggest about their place in industrial society?

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

HW 2/4 Ch.25 Sec. 3

Read Chapter 25 Section 3 in your textbook and answer the following questions. Answers should be in blue or black ink or typed and printed.

Due: Friday 2/6

1. Identify the following terms:
a. stock
b. corporation

2. Why did Lucy Larcom think that mill work benefitted women?

3. How did German industry create political unity

4. Why did imperialism grow out of industrialization?

5. How did the industrial revolution shift the world balance of power?