THURSDAY--MARCH 10

US History
EQ:
How successful were Progressives at reforming the United States economically, socially, and politically?

CW:
meat discussion con't:
chicken farming today
pink slime
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video clips:
TR and conservation
TR and the Brownsville riot
William H. Taft (1908-12)
Taft harms TR's legacy
1912 presidential election: TR's New Nationalism (Bull Moose Party) vs. Woodrow Wilson's (Democrat) New Freedom (handout)
Progressive Era Amendments:
16th and 18th Amendments
primary source analysis--the fight for Prohibition

HW:
STUDY/REVIEW NOTES--TEST TOMORROW
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IB HOTA
EQ:
How did slavery come to an end in the United States?

CW:
notes/discussion: the end of slavery
1861--contraband slaves--Ft. Monroe, Virginia
policies in Missouri and Kentucky
Robert Smalls' daring escape in South Carolina
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CIVIL WAR OVERVIEW
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video clip: Sherman and Stanton meet Garrison Frazier in Savannah
Dec. 1865--13th Amendment ratified
small group activity--How should we remember slavery?
Whitney Slave Museum in Louisiana

HW:
Call Me Mister--the black experience in Reconstruction
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