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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 understand 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 The Beginnings of an Independent Judiciary Clash of Empires: The Fight for North America Climate Change in Ancient American Southwest Conspiracy Theories and Attacks on Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence and Natural Rights Andrew Jackson and Indian Removal Constitutional Issue: Rock, Rap, and Responsibility Colonial Free Press: The John Peter Zenger Trial Spain and the Native Peoples of the New World James K. Polk and the Taking of the West Slavery, Civil War, and Democracy: What Did Lincoln Believe?
Religion, Standard 11.3
Industrialization, Immigration, Urbanization and the Gilded Age, Standard 11.2 Educating European Immigrant Children Before WWI
The Progressives, Standard 11.2 Japanese Internment: The Korematsu Case W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, and Marcus Garvey
Imperialism and WWI, Standard 11.4
The 1920s, Standard 11.5
The Great Depression and the New Deal, Standard 11.6 FDR Attempts to "Pack" the Supreme Court How Welfare Began in the United States
World War II, Standard 11.7 Truman, Hirohito, and the Atomic Bomb US Immigration and Hitler's Holocaust
The 1950s, Standard 11.8, 11.9
JFK/LBJ, Standard 11.8, 11.9 Let Us Reason Together: LBJ the Legislator
Civil Rights, Standard 11.10
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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