MR. GRAY'S HISTORY CLASSES



Crash Course American History: Reconstruction and 1876Instructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. Who became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated? 2. To many slaves _____________________ ownership was the key to freedom. 3. What three things did the 14th Amendment establish? 1. 2.3.4. What was the mystery document dealing with? 5. Who won the election of 1868? 6. Cause and Effect: What effect did the economic depression of 1873 have on Reconstruction? 7. To ensure the election of Hayes, Hayes’ people agreed to remove _______________ troops from the South. Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: Crash Course American History: The Industrial EconomyInstructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. List two natural resources that the US had that helped it become an industrial powerhouse. 2. “By 1913 the US produced ______________ of the world’s industrial output.”3. Who wrote the mystery document? 4. What industry did John D. Rockefeller monopolize and control? 5. What was the first national union in the US? 6. Explain Social Darwinism. Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: Crash Course American History: Westward ExpansionInstructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. List 3 groups of people that settled (or already lived in the West. 2. What was the main & life source for the Plains Indians that was hunted to near extinction by white settlers? 3. Who wrote the mystery document? 4. Which group of settlers moved large amounts of cattle to railroads [hint: it starts with a “c”]5. Who said, “California is not a country of farms, but of plantations and estates?”Part C: Summary (4-6 Sentences)Crash Course American History: Growth, Cities and ImmigrationInstructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. Which two states saw a population increase of over 2 million people? 2. Approximately what percentage of Americans lived in cities by 1920? 3. What environmental disaster in Ireland pushed the Irish to immigrate to the US? 4. In what year was the Chinese Exclusion Act passed? 5. Who wrote the mystery document? 6. Complete the quote: “Improved transportation meant that people no longer had to live and ____________________ in the same place.” Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: Crash Course American History: Gilded Age PoliticsInstructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. What was the title of the book that was written by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner? 2. What was the name for an organization that works to win elections so that it can exercise power [hint: the most famous was based out of New York]?3. Who wrote the mystery document? 4. Corruption wasn’t just limited to cities, the presidency of ________________________ also saw corruption. 5. What event prompted the Civil Service Act of 1883? 6. “I was elected as the leader of the People’s Party in 1896-that is, the Populist Party!” Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: Crash Course American History: American ImperialismInstructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. What was one of the primary causes for American imperialism [hint: it starts with an “E”]?2. Who published the book titled “The Influence of Sea Power Upon History?”3. In what year did the US annex (add, attach) Hawaii? 4. Who wrote the mystery document? 5. How many months did the Spanish-American War (1898) last? 6. As a result of the Spanish-American War the US gained the territories of the Philippines, Puerto Rico and __________________________.7. According to John Green, imperialism was all about ______________________________________. Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: Crash Course American History: The Progressive EraInstructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. What is the name for the period when American industrial capitalism came into its own? 2. List one of the ways that the government tried to deal with large corporate trusts. 3. Who wrote the mystery document? 4. Which corporation paid its workers an average of $5.00 a day at the turn of the 20th century?5. Who advocated for scientific management? 6. What did the 17th Amendment do? 8. What doctrine was established by the 1896 court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson? Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: Crash Course American History: Progressive PresidentsInstructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. Who became the youngest American president after McKinley was assassinated in 1901?2. What was the name of Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt’s political program called? 3. Who was Teddy Roosevelt’s successor? 4. Name two out of the four candidates running for US President in 1912:5. Who wrote the mystery document? 6. Who was the first US President to win a Nobel Peace Prize? 7. Identify each progressive president’s diplomacy style: Roosevelt-Taft-Wilson-Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: Crash Course American History: Women’s SuffrageInstructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. What amendment gave women the right to vote? 2. The women’s greatest influence came through their membership in the Women’s _________________________ Temperance __________________ (WCTU). 3. By 1925, what percentage of the female workforce worked as office workers and telephone operators? 4. Who wrote the mystery document? 5. “I spearheaded the Settlement House movement. I started the Hull House.”6. What did the 18th Amendment do? Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: Crash Course American History: America in World War IInstructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. How many months was the U.S. involved in WWI? 2. When did WWI begin and end? 3. On what day did the US declare war on Germany? 4. Who wrote the mystery document? 5. What job did Ernest Hemingway have in the armed forces? 6. In what year was the espionage act passed? 7. True or False: The US Congress voted unanimously to join the League of Nations. Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: Crash Course American History: The Roaring 20sInstructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. Who said: “The chief business of the American people is business?”2. Which president’s administration was shrouded in government corruption and scandals? 3. By 1929, what percentage of American families owned cars? 4. What was the most significant leisure product in the 1920s? 5. Who wrote the mystery document? 6. The 1920s saw a resurgence of this group (spurred by the hyper-patriotism of WWI). 7. What did John Scopes teach that got him arrested? Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: Crash Course American History: The Great DepressionInstructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. Much of the purchases of the 1920s-the purchases that fueled the rise in consumer spending-was being done by ____________________ and installment buying. 2. Complete the quote: “What made the Great Depression the Great Depression was massive ___________________________ and accompanying _______________________...”3. What percentage of Americans owned stocks during the 1920s? 4. Name the tariff issued in 1930, which raised tariffs to their highest level ever. 5. In what year did Britain stop using the Gold Standard? 6. True or False: Once the Great Depression hit, Hoover allowed the federal government to take control of the situation. 7. Who wrote the mystery document? Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: Crash Course American History: The New DealInstructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. Who won the Presidential Election of 1932? Who did he defeat? 2. What were the three R’s of the New Deal? R_________________R_________________R_________________3. What does the NRA stand for? 4. Why was the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) controversial? 5. What did the Wagner Act guarantee workers? 6. Who wrote the mystery document? 7. What was the crowning achievement of the Second New Deal? 8. What event brought an end to the Great Depression? Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: Crash Course American History: World War II – Part 2Instructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. Complete the quote: “World War II _______________________ the federal government of the United States.”2. Complete the quote: “By 1944, women made up __________ of the civilian labor force in addition to the __________________ who were serving in the military. 3. Who wrote the mystery document? 4. How many thousands of Jewish people were allowed to come to the US during the war? 5. What did Executive Order 9066 do? 6. True or False; World War II helped usher in the Civil Rights movement. 7. What organization was developed towards the end of the war (Hint: It is often referred to as the UN)? Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: Crash Course American History: World War II – Part 1Instructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. During the 20th century, American foreign policy was defined by which two things? 2. What was the purpose of the Neutrality Acts? 3. Which event pushed America fully into WWII? 4. Explain the US policy of Island Hopping in the Pacific. 5. On what day did the British, Americans, and Canadians invade Normandy, France? 6. What new weapon brought about the end of the war with Japan? 7. Which US President gave the order to drop the atomic bomb? Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: Crash Course American History: The Cold WarInstructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. The Cold War lasted from roughly ________________ to _____________. 2. Briefly explain the US policy of containment:3. The Marhsall Plan “sought to use US ________________ to combat the economic instability that provided fertile fields for ______________________.”4. The capital of Germany, Berlin, was in which country’s side? 5. What was the mystery document? 6. In what year did Congress add the words “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance? 7. Which Senator from Wisconsin claimed that he had a list of 205 communists who worked in the state department? Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: Crash Course American History: The Cold War in AsiaInstructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. What war, which was part of the Cold War, lasted from 1950-1953? 2. At what parallel (latitude) are North and South Korea divided? 3. Who won the Presidential Election of 1952? 4. Who wrote the mystery document?5. The first “American advisors” in Vietnam were killed in 1961 during this president’s tenure:6. What power did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution give to President Johnson? 7. How could young people earn a deferment from war? 8. Which US president finally ended the war in Vietnam (although he escalated the war at first)?Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: Crash Course American History: Civil Rights and the 1950sInstructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. What were the two causes of the “consensus culture?”2. What was the “classic” example of suburbanization? 3. Complete the quote; “In the South, public accommodations were segregated by law, while in the North it was usually happening by custom or ____________________________ segregation.” 4. Who wrote the mystery document? 5. In what year was Rosa Parks arrested? 6. John Green says that during the 1950s there was systematic inequality. What does this mean? Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: Crash Course American History: The 1960s in AmericaInstructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. What type of protest took place in Greensboro, North Carolina during the 1960s? 2. Who became president after John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963? 3. What was the name given to Lyndon Johnson’s domestic initiatives that took place from 1965-1967? 4. In what year was Malcolm X killed? 5. Who wrote the mystery document? 6. What right did Roe v. Wade establish? Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: Crash Course American History: The Reagan RevolutionInstructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. In what year was Ronald Reagan elected president? 2. What word did Ronald Reagan use more than any other president in US History? 3. Passed in 1986, the Tax Reform Act lowered the top income tax rate to _________________%.4. Who wrote the mystery document? 5. The income of middle class families stagnated during the 1980s…what does stagnated mean? 6. What was the biggest controversy of Ronald Reagan’s presidency? Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: Crash Course American History: George HW Bush and the End of the Cold WarInstructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. Who was elected president of the United States in 1988? 2. Who was George H.W. Bush’s opponent in the 1988 election? 3. Complete the quote by George H.W. Bush: “Read my _________, no new ______________.”4. At the end of the Cold War, Bush and the USSR developed a treaty to reduce what type of weapons? 5. What war (1990-1991) was a military success for George H.W. Bush? 6. Who wrote the mystery document? 7. The beating of this motorist ignited the LA Riots of 1992:8. Who became president in 1992? Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: Crash Course American History: The Clinton Years, or the 1990sInstructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. What famous sign hung in Clinton’s campaign War Room? 2. List one terrorist event that occurred during Clinton’s presidency.3. Who was the new Speaker of the House in 1994? 4. “By the time Clinton left office, unemployment was below _________ which hadn’t happened since the 1960s. 5. Who wrote the mystery document? 6. Approximately how many immigrants arrived in the US between 1965 and 2000? 7. What was the name of the intern that Bill Clinton had an affair with? Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: Crash Course American History: Terrorism, War and Bush 43Instructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. Who were the two candidates squaring off during the Presidential Election of 2000? 2. What was the name of George W. Bush’s educational reform program? 3. Who wrote the mystery document? 4. Explain the Bush Doctrine? 5. Give one example of an “enhanced interrogation technique” used by the Department of Defense.6. In what year did Hurricane Katrina slam into New Orleans? Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: Crash Course American History: ObamanationInstructions: Note taking strategies are an essential part of learning. In college, for example, students are expected to take notes while listening to a lecture (at full speed). The strategy below is a helpful way to take notes and to make sense of what is being taught (adapted from the Cornell Note format). While watching the video, please complete the worksheet (parts A & B). At the end of the video, please complete part C.Part A: Essential Vocabulary1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.Part B: Video Questions1. Who was president before Barack Obama? 2. John Green says that mortgage lenders were unscrupulous…what does unscrupulous mean? 3. By 2008, how many jobs had been lost as a result of the recession? 4. Who wrote the mystery document? 5. How many women did Obama appoint to the Supreme Court? 6. What was Obama’s signature policy approval? 7. What is the Tea Party an acronym for? Write down at least one question you still have for this topic: ................
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