Weekly ORQ

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Weekly ORQ

• Practice Makes Perfect

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Reconstruction 5.2.1

• Identify the two plans for Reconstruction and the
  government body responsible for each. List at
  least two of the specific elements of each plan.
  Identify which was plan was adopted and provide
  two issues that arose from this plan.

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Answer to Reconstruction ORQ

• The two plans for reconstructing the country
  following the civil war were proposed by
  President Andrew Johnson and by the Radical
  Republicans in Congress. Johnson being a
  southerner proposed a plan that allowed southern
  states to write their own constitutions and to
  rejoin the United States without giving African
  Americans the right to vote.

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Continued

• The Radical Republicans proposed a plan that
  would allow southern states back in if they
  granted all men in the United States the right to
  vote for all males and for the adoption of
  amendments to the constitution to provide
  equality for blacks socially, economically, and
  politically.

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• In the end Congresses plan was adopted because
  they were able to use their power to override the
  vetoes of Andrew Johnson. Their plan was not
  perfect and led to major problems for the South
  and even the people they were trying to protect
  African Americans.
• Many issues arose from the Congressional plan
  that was adopted such as the emergence of the KKK
  which used terror to keep blacks from using their
  new rights.

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• Despite Congress using money to try to create a
  fair system for the blacks in the south a system
  of sharecropping emerged in which poor blacks did
  not own land but farmed it and gave a large
  portion of their crops to the landowners. This
  system kept the blacks in the south poor and far
  from equality.

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Mechanization 5.2.2

• Identify one way in which each of the following
  impacted the lives of Americans
• Big Business
• Factories
• Mechanized farming
• The labor movement
• Provide one example of a person, invention, or
  group that was involved in each and their impact
  on America.

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Answers to Mechanization ORQ

• Big Business- made small businesses go out
  business, made business more impersonal, led the
  economy to be more industrial and less
  agricultural, created less competition which hurt
  the consumer
• Factories- gave people industrial jobs in cities
  rather than the country, dangerous working
  conditions, repetitive tasks, gives Americans
  cheap goods

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Answers to Mechanization ORQ

• Mechanized Farming- made farming more efficient,
  allowed the cultivation of more land, led to
  increased production, allowed diversification of
  crops
• Labor Movement- started the road to better
  conditions, shorter hours, and higher wages

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Answers to Mechanization ORQ

• Big Business- Rockefeller created a nationwide
  oil monopoly and gave money to charity upon his
  death, Carnegie pioneered horizontal and vertical
  integration as a way to monopolize an industry
• Factories- Henry Ford and other industrialists
  used new techniques like the assembly line and
  Bessemer process to make goods cheaper and faster
  

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Answers to Mechanization ORQ

• Mechanized farming- the populists engaged in
  mechanized farming on great plains, their use of
  machines led to overproduction, which led to
  economic problems and the development of the
  populist party to provide them a voice in
  government
• Labor Movement- unions like the AFL were by men
  like Debs who helped to provide a voice for the
  workers and gain rights like hours, wages, and
  conditions

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Immigration 5.2.3

• Identify three groups that came to America during
  the late 1800s. Identify the impact these
  immigrants had on the cities of the United States
  and the idea of what an American is.

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Progressive Movement 5.2.4

• Identify one social, political, and economic
  problem that America faced in the Progressive
  era. Provide a solution the Progressives
  implemented for each problem and determine
  whether or not it was effective.

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World War I 5.2.4

• Identify one social, political, and economic
  change that occurred in the United States during
  WWI. Determine whether or not these changes were
  beneficial to the United States war effort.

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World War I 5.2.4

• Define Imperialism, Isolationism, and
  Nationalism. Provide an example of the United
  States using each of these in foreign policy
  during the Progressive Era and WWI.

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The 20s 5.2.4

• Identify one social, political, and economic
  change that occurred following WWI. Define
  economic prosperity, consumerism, and womens
  suffrage and determine their impact on each of
  the changes you identified above.

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Great Depression 5.2.5

• Define stock market crash and depression.
  Identify three ways in which the United States
  government provided a chance for relief,
  recovery, and reform during the Great Depression.
  Determine whether or not the government being
  involved in business through reform actually
  helped end the Great Depression.

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New Deal 5.2.5

• Identify three policies that were enacted in the
  New Deal proposed by Roosevelt. Determine whether
  or not the increased involvement of the national
  government helped to solve the issues of the
  Great Depression.

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World War II 5.2.6

• Identify three ways the United States used on the
  domestic side to help assist in the war effort.
  Determine one social, political, and economic
  change that these efforts caused in the United
  States.

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World War II 5.2.6

• Identify two reasons why the United States was
  able to help win the war in Europe and Japan. How
  do you think these advantages helped to
  contribute to the United States emerging as a
  world power?

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Post World War II 5.2.6

• Identify three ways that demonstrate the United
  States experienced economic growth following
  World War II. Determine whether or not this
  economic growth impacted all Americans, if the
  answer is no identify at least one specific
  group.

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Post World War II 5.2.7

• Identify two ways in which African Americans were
  discriminated against in the post WWII era.
  Explain how the decision in Brown v. the Board
  opened the way for the Civil Rights movement.
  Determine which methods were most useful for
  Civil Rights activist and explain how the Civil
  Rights act extended equality to minorities in the
  US.

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Post World War II 5.2.7

• Identify three political issues or events
  associated with the post World War II era in the
  United States that led to protests and conflict
  in the United States. Explain how each of these
  events or issues changed Americans views of our
  country.

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Efforts/World Peace 5.2.7

• Identify the two world peace organizations the
  United States is associated with since the end of
  World War I. Provide a reasons for the failure of
  the first international peacekeeping organization
  and for the longevity of the second. Determine
  whether or not the efforts of the post WWII
  organization have been effective in keeping
  peace. Give a specific example.

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Efforts/World Peace 5.2.7

• Identify and define three of the ideas that the
  United States used to prosecute the Cold War.
  Provide one example of how each of these ideas
  were put into place and determine what the impact
  was on the United States at the time. In your
  opinion which of these was the most effective?

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Totalitarian Government 5.3.4

• Identify the four causes of modern warfare and
  provide one example of how the United States
  engaged in each in the 20th century.

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Cold War/New Nations 5.3.5

• Identify two reasons for the rise of the United
  States and two reasons for the rise of the Soviet
  Union after World War II. Determine two reasons
  the US and USSR disagreed over post war policy.

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Cold War/New Nations 5.3.5

• Identify three nations that have emerged since
  the end of World War II and explain how they were
  formed. Provide one way in which each of these
  nations has impacted the United States either
  socially, politically, or economically.

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Challenges in the 20th Century 5.3.6

• Identify three of the challenges the United
  States has faced in the second half of the 20th
  century. Provide one specific example of how the
  United States responded to these challenges and
  determine whether or not it was effective.