Chapters 30, 31, 32 & 33

Something a little different this week...in the interest of time (I'm trying to get these done and posted before leaving for a week back downstates), you're going to do your SOAPSTones and reading responses in an email to Mr. Tolliver.  The reading responses are listed right along with the documents. If you guys prefer this method, please let me know...it's actually way easier for me than making new forms on Google Docs for each document.  Thanks, and have a good week! - Mr. P, 4/13

Document 1: A letter from a US Army soldier in France to his sister at home.

Response Question: Knowing what you do about the brutality of trench warfare in World War I, what do you think accounts for this particular soldier's high morale and upbeat tone in his letter home?

Document 2: Article from the New York Times, 2/17/1922: "Mothers Complain that Modern Girls "Vamp" Their Sons at Petting Parties"

Response Question: Coming out of the "Victorian American" era, the "Flapper" movement challenged many of the mores associated with womanhood in early the early 20th century U.S.  Can you draw any parallels to current trends or movements?  Or were the mothers of these young men right to feel that they were being victimized by the horrors of "cheek dancing?"

Document 3: 1929 newsreel from the stock market crash, with interview of B. C. Forbes.

Response Question: Knowing what you do about the stock market and in particular the Crash of 1929, what do you think Mr. Forbes' motive was in taking such an optimistic tone and urging people to buy stock, if able?

Document 4: Text of FDR's "Fireside Chat" radio address from 5/7/1933, outlining his plan for the "New Deal." 

Reading Response: Do you think Roosevelt's use of the example of the Cotton Industry makes an effective case for government intervention and regulation of industry?  How would a capitalist such as Andrew Carnegie have argued against FDR's point?

Chapters 28 and 29

Document 1: An excerpt from Upton Sinclair's classic muckraking novel, The Jungle.

Link to Response Form

Document 2: Text of a campaign speech given by Teddy Roosevelt immediately after being shot by a would-be assassin in Milwaukee, WI.

Link to Response Form

Document 3:  U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's formal reply to a letter from the Mexican government objecting to the U.S. Army pursuing Pancho Villa deep across the international border.

Link to Response Form

Chapters 25, 26, and 27

Document 1: Pamphlet entitled "Scientific Temperance in the First Six School Grades"

Link to Response Form

Document 2: An account by Big Eagle of the start of the "Dakota War" in Minnesota in 1862.

Link to Response Form

Read more about the Dakota conflict, including first-hand accounts of the trials, executions, and a photo of Lincoln's execution order at this website.

Document 3:  Song "Damn, Damn, Damn the Filipinos"

Link to Response Form

(Hint for those who aren't military history buffs or weapons collectors: This is a "Krag")

Chapter 24 - Industry Comes of Age

Document #1:  Organizer Oscar Ameringer describes the effect of the Haymarket bombing on the Knights of Labor

"The bad news from Chicago"

Link to Response Form

Document #2: The recollections of a glove worker who went on to help lead a successful strike in a Chicago factory in 1898

"Working her fingers to the bone"

Link to Response Form

Chapter 23 - Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age

Document #1: Political Cartoons by Thomas Nast about Tammany Hall, and specifically "Boss" Tweed.

     Cartoon #1

     Cartoon #2

     Cartoon #3

     Link to Response Form

Document #2: Account of July 6th "incident" at Homestead, PA by a Reporter for Illustrated American, as published in the July 16, 1892 edition.

     Link to Document #2

     Link to Response Form #2









Document #3:  Speech by Susan B. Anthony after being convicted of voting in the 1872 Presidential Election.

     Link to Document #3

     Link to Response Form

Welcome!

This website will function as a home for links, digital handouts, and a forum for discussion of the primary sources we are using to explore United States history and prepare for the AP exam this spring.

Watch this space for further construction and updates.

-Mr. P