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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

The American Dream 1950's

As we've studied the plenty of the 1950's with it's fashion, gender roles, and baby boom generations we've found ourselves very puzzled as to how we may have been influenced or diverted by the decade. After learning about the 1950's would you enjoy or have difficulty living in the era?

1950's California Agricultural Economy

This picture taken on May 24, 1950 in Culver City, CA depict Mexican agriculture workers. Describe the Significance of Mexican immigrants to the agricultural economy. (Textbook: Poverty and Plenty)

Friday, April 9, 2010

california state testing STUDY!!!!!!

Here are the list of terms for flashcards. Due Tuesday!
Manifest destiny
Wilmot Proviso*
Susan B. Anthony
Compromise of 1850
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott V. Sanford
Civil War
Emancipation Proclaimation
Gettysburg Address
13th amendment
14th amendment
15th amendment
KKK
Plessey V. Ferguson
Sherman Antitrust Act
Progressive-250
Spanish American War
Panama canal
17th Amendment
World War I
Wilson’s fourteen points-323
League of Nations
Great Gatsby-334
Anarchism
Red Scare
Palmer Raids
Marcus Garvey-343
Women’s Suffrage
Teapot dome-347
Espionage Act of 1918
Kellogg-Briand Post
Henry Ford-355
Upton Sinclair
Route 66-384
The Jazz Age
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes-392
Zora Neal Hurston
Prohibition
Al Capone
KKK
Immigration Quotas
National Origins Act-404
Causes of the Great Depression
Hoovervilles
Election of 1932
Dust bowl
The Grapes of Wrath-444
New Deal
Eleanor Roosevelt-460
Social Security Act
Indian reorganization act-480
WWII
Lend-lease
Selective services
Island Hopping
Atlantic Charter
D-Day
Pearl Harbor
Atomic Bomb
Rations
Women in wartime industry-531
NAACP
Executive order 8802-544
Executive order 9066
Hirabayashi v. United States-548
Korematsu V. United States
Yalta-big 3
United Nations-565
Containment
Cold war-567
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Korean War-578
Sputnik
Bay of Pigs-592

Friday, April 2, 2010

Spring Break

Greeting students, I've had a wonderful time with my family this vacation and will come back to school refreshed and ready for STATE testing!!! How has your break been? Are you re-energized?