WEDNESDAY--MARCH 4

Honors US History
EQ:
What factors and events led to a Union victory in the Civil War?

CW:
1863
Battle of Gettysburg: July 1-3, 1863
Battle of Vicksburg (May-July 4, 1863)--video clip
discussion: service problems and When the War Came to New York from the packet
video clip: NYC Draft Riots from CW series
Emancipation Proclamation and black soldiers
video clip: African American soldiers from Many Rivers
video: Glory
Gettysburg Address: November 19, 1863
video clip

HW:
Text pp. 417-21; 424-26
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US History
EQ:
How successful were Progressives at reforming the United States economically, socially, and politically?

CW:
video clip: President Roosevelt's fight for conservation
President Roosevelt and racial equality: two contrasts:
meeting with Booker T. Washington
Brownsville incident (1:25:00---1:29:48)
discuss 17:4 RG--Progressivism under President Taft
1912 presidential election
video clips:
TR's New Nationalism (15:00---19:41)
President Woodrow Wilson--1912-20
notes/discussion: the fight for women's rights
what is a feminist?
brief history of the women's rights movement in the US (1st and 2nd wave feminism)
anti-suffrage arguments--primary source handout; anti-suffrage postcards
video clips from "Iron Jawed Angels"
the fight for reproductive freedom: history of birth control
Comstock Law; Margaret Sanger
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handout: major Progressive reforms
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unit wrap up and essay review

HW:
STUDY--UNIT 2 EXAM IS TOMORROW!
BRING BOOKS!