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PAGE 4Use the quote and political cartoons to fill out the “Reasons” box
Use the textbook to address US Imperialism in each other box/country. Make sure to include causes, features of US
imperialism in each country, and effects.
PAGE 9
Use the sentence strips to fill in the timeline for the Great Depression. Write them and their definitions
(if it says to) in your packet
Page 10
New DealUse pages 320-341.
PAGE 11WWII
Use chapter 6 (page 359) to fill out the information
Page 12 Cold War
Pg. 12: Use pages 436-441 in the textbook and the web activity link (https://goo.gl/rNn37C ) to answer the questions.
Page 13 Cold War
Pg. 13: Use pages 436-458 in the textbook to explain and define the significance of each term.
Page 14The 1950’s
At the top of the page list examples of mainstream culture/conformity and their impact using pages 467-472 and your notes.
At the bottom of the page list examples of counterculture/rebellion and their impact using pages 474-476 and your notes.
PAGE 15Civil Rights
Pg. 15: Use pages 497-513 to fill out the Civil Rights Legislation Chart.
PAGE 16Civil Rights
Pg. 16: In this chart explain the beliefs, methods, and impact for each box, then how these groups were similar and how they differed.
● African Americans: 506-507, 510-512
● Women/Feminism: 588-592 (list key leaders)● Chicano/Latino: 594-596 (list key leaders)● Native American: 596-598 (list key leaders)
PAGE 17The 1960’s
Fill in the kites with information that matches the topic. Then, connect the characters at the bottom to each kite that they fly!
Use pages:515 - 527 (JFK and LBJ) 557 - 559 (Anti-War Movement)
584 - 587 (Youth Culture)
PAGE 181970’s
Left column: write the president associated with the term in the middle
Middle column: define the term
Right column: write the year for the term
Use pages 607 - 621 to find the information
PAGE 19The 1980’s
Use pages 638 - 665 to fill out the information on Reagan and Bush.
PAGE 20The 1990’s
PAGE 21TCB
PAGE 221. Match the eras with the correct images -
more than one can be the same era
2. Use the word bank to match the term with the image - each term fits with one image
Page 23
Use your notes and your book to help with the quotes in the packet
PAGE 24 & 25
Use the chromebooks to look up the supreme court cases and fill out the chart
PAGE 26
Use the chromebooks at your table to fill out the Bill of Rights and the rest of your Amendments!
PAGE 27
Use the document at your table to fill in the definitions and the answers to the following
questions
Alexis de Tocqueville, “Democracy in America” Guide
French sociologist and political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) traveled to the United States in 1831 to study its prisons and returned with “Democracy in America” (1835), one of the most influential books of the 19th century. With its trenchant observations on equality and individualism, Tocqueville’s work remains a valuable explanation of America to Europeans and of Americans to themselves.
EQUALITY
“Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”
● Write in the corresponding bubble what your group thinks “equality” means to Alexis de Tocqueville.
INDIVIDUALISM
The central terms of "individualism" and "self-interest" should be defined because they seem open to some variety of meanings. For example, a dictionary defines "individualism" as "the assertion of one's own will and personality; personal independence," but this is not Tocqueville's usage. His sense of individualism is best illustrated by the opening quotation,
“a calm and considered feeling which disposes each citizen to isolate himself from the mass of his fellows and withdraw into the circle of family and friends.”
This is quite different from the self-assertions we might ordinarily expect from an "individualist". Tocqueville's individualism is a regrettable yet unavoidable by-product of equality in society. Individualism may be weakened but not altogether eliminated. A society of equals, in which individuals are expected to support themselves, turns every man's thoughts to himself. This encourages a withdrawal from society at large. In this manner, individualism becomes a more threatening force than simply "doing your own thing". It undermines the very nature of participation in the government.
Write the following answers in the corresponding bubble:
● Why do you think Tocqueville believes individualism stems from equality?
● How could individualism be negative in terms of participation in the government?
POPULISM
Definition: “Support for the concerns of ordinary people”
“Without common ideas, there is no common action, and without common action men still exist, but a social body does not. Thus in order that there be society, and all the more, that this society prosper, it is necessary that all the minds of the citizens always be brought together and held together by some principal ideas”.
Write the following answers in the corresponding bubble:
● How does Tocqueville’s quote mirror the idea of populism?
LIBERTY
● Talk with your group. What does liberty mean to you? Write it down in the corresponding bubble.
“Local assemblies [(gatherings)] of the people [form] the strength of free nations. [National] institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science: they bring it within the people's reach, and teach them how to use and enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.”
● What connection is Tocqueville trying to make between liberty and government? Add your answer to the corresponding bubble.
LAISSEZ-FAIRE
“What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it sleeps, everything must also sleep; and when it dies, everything must also perish?”
Write the following answers in the corresponding bubble:
● What does Laissez-Faire mean?
● How does Tocqueville's quote represent Laissez-Faire?