President Wilson's Early Years

Using complete sentences, answer the following 4 questions and submit your answers as comments not later than January 20th.
1. Most of the men in President Wilson's family (his father and both his grandfathers) did what for a living?
2. Right before he was President, what job did Woodrow Wilson have? How long did he have that job?
3. Explain exactly what became of President Wilson's first wife. How old was she and what was her name?
4. According to the old joke, what did Edith Galt do when Woodrow Wilson proposed marriage to her?

American Public Education at the Turn of the 20th Century

Please post your answer to the following 3 questions before midnight, December 1, 2010.

1. Who was Booker T. Washington, and what is the name of the famous educational institution that he founded in Alabama?

2. Who was W.E.B. DuBois?

3. Compare and contrast the views of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois on the subject of education for African Americans.

Late 19th Century US Immigration

Complete by Midnight, November 23, 2010

1.      Explain the impact of President Roosevelt’s “Gentleman’s Agreement” with Japan.

2.      List three differences between Ellis Island and Angel Island.

3.      What was the purpose of the 1902 National Reclamation Act?

The Exodusters

US History 2 Homework.

Post comment before Tuesday, November 9th.

1. What was an "Exoduster" and where did that name come from?

2. Where did the town of Nicodemus, KS, get its name from?

3. What roles did W.R. Hill and W.H. Smith play in the founding of Nicodemus?

4. Where did most of the Nicodemus settlers come from?

5. What was "Pap" Singleton so important to Nicodemus

Scalawgs and Others

Please post your comments and answers below not later than 6AM, Tuesday morning, October 26th, 2010.

1.  In complete sentences, explain the difference between a "Sharecropper" and a "Tenant Farmer" in Reconstruction South.

2.  If you had to be one or the other back then, a sharecropper or a tenant farmer, which would you choose to be and why?

3.  Who were Hiram Revels and Garrison Frazier?  What did they have in common with each other? 

4.  What is the difference between a "Scalawag" and a "Carpetbagger?" If you had to turn to one or the other for help back then, which one would you turn to and why?

Eric Foner's "Reconstruction" - 1

Please complete by midnight Friday, Now!

1.  Chapter 1 claims that Southern yeomen supplied most of the soldiers to the Confederate Army.  They supplied many more soldiers than the Southern gentry did. Chapter 1 also claims that the Confederate government instituted an ordinance of conscription, which the young men of the gentry were able to avoid.

• Who were the yeomen?
• Who were the gentry?
• What is conscription?
• By what means were the gentry able to avoid conscription?

2.  Chapter 1 also claims that in the South, there was a “civil war within the Civil War.” What does that mean, and what caused the war within the war?

3.  Foner writes that “War is the midwife of Revolution.” In other words, the Civil War delivered a “Revolution” to the United States. Please provide a succinct definition of the word “revolution” as opposed to “rebellion”.  And in your opinion, what was the revolution that the Civil War delivered?
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