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Extra Credit Movie Assignment
Extra Credit Readings from The Constitutional Rights Foundation
Instructions:
1. Summarize the important points of the reading in at least 3/4 page in your own words, in complete sentences.
2. Answer the questions labeled "For Discussion and Writing" in your own words, in complete sentences.
3. Your job is to convince me by demonstrating in writing that you read and understood the reading.
4. FYI: There is no partial extra credit. All or nothing. Each write-up is worth 10 points.
Early America, Constitution, Civil War, Reconstruction, Standard 11.1
Climate Change in Ancient American Southwest
The Columbian Exchange
Spain and the Native Peoples of the New World
Clash of Empires: The Fight for North America
Colonial Free Press: The John Peter Zenger Trial
The Declaration of Independence and Natural Rights
Articles of Confederation
Major Debates of the Constitutional Convention
Constitutional Issue: Rock, Rap, and Responsibility
Who Voted in Early America?
The Beginnings of Political Parties in America
Alien and Sedition Acts
The Beginnings of an Independent Judiciary
Conspiracy Theories and Attacks on Thomas Jefferson
The Barbary Pirates
The Election of 1824
Andrew Jackson and Indian Removal
Henry Clay: The Great Compromiser
James K. Polk and the Taking of the West
The Transcendentalists
John Brown
Slavery, Civil War, and Democracy: What Did Lincoln Believe?
Black Troops in Union Blue
The Black Codes, 1865-66
The 14th Amendment
Ulysses S Grant
Religion, Standard 11.3
The First Great Awakening
Persecution of Mormons
Industrialization, Immigration, Urbanization and the Gilded Age, Standard 11.2
Educating European Immigrant Children Before WWI
One Big Union: The Wobblies
Patents
Rockefeller
Social Darwinism
The Progressives, Standard 11.2
A History of Juvenile Justice
The Income Tax Amendment
William Jennings Bryan: The "Great Commoner"
The Progressives
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, and Marcus Garvey
Women's Suffrage
Imperialism and WWI, Standard 11.4
Hawaii and Empire
The Panama Canal
Woodrow Wilson's Quest to Change the World
The 1920s, Standard 11.5
The Sacco and Vanzetti Case
The Teapot Dome Scandal
The Scopes Trial
Sex and Crime in the Jazz Age
The Great Depression and the New Deal, Standard 11.6
The Dust Bowl
FDR Attempts to "Pack" the Supreme Court
How Welfare Began in the United States
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
World War II, Standard 11.7
Truman, Hirohito, and the Atomic Bomb
US Immigration and Hitler's Holocaust
Japanese Internment: The Korematsu Case
The Marshall Plan
The 1950s, Standard 11.8, 11.9
Truman vs. MacArthur
JFK/LBJ, Standard 11.8, 11.9
Let Us Reason Together: LBJ the Legislator
Civil Rights, Standard 11.10
Lynching in America
California's Proposition 187
Race and Voting
The Sixties/Vietnam, Standards 11.8, 11.9
Vietnam and the Geneva Accords
Berkeley and the Free Speech Movement
Nixon, Standards 11.8, 11.9, 11.11
Reagan, Standards 11.8, 11.9, 11.11
Equal Opportunity in the Military
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