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| ODE Website- Academic Standards |
| This is a link to the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) website that details the material we cover in class. |
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| How Labor Unions work Today |
| Labor Unions made it possible for the average worker to make more $ and have more free time to spend it. The Labor movement's efforts combined with programs of The New Deal and The G.I Bill after WWII helped create today's consumer based middle class culture. |
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| American Industrialization |
| Before 1898 America was basically an agricultural nation. In the 19th century America slowly became an industrial nation which effected everything to how we lived our daily lives to our Foreign policy. The Iraq War and anti-Americanism in the Middle East is tied to the Industrial Revolution. Can you discover how they are related? |
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| History of Imperialism |
| European and American Imperialism. In class we will also discuss Islamic Imperialism, Asian Imperialism and Modern Imperialism. Basically every country likes to conquer other countries for their natural resources which equal $. |
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| John Locke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| Locke's ideas influenced the American and French Revolutions, which spread the radical idea that people had rights or in other words the Monarch didn't have the absolute power to impose laws without the permission of the people. Everytime you think your rights are being violated, and that you have the right to stand up for your freedoms, thank John Locke. |
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| The Enlightenment |
| The idea that people had certain "God Given" freedoms. The Enlightenment was also tied to the Scientific Revolution in that the Enlightenment thinkers tried to use science to discover the best political system, for example The Social Contract. The Social Contract was an an agreement between the the ruled and the rulers about who had what rights, for example, the government can't just impose a tax on the people arbitrialy, they must have the people's permission first. That's why we vote on tax levys for schools, sin taxes to build new football stadiums, and elect representatives who vote on national taxes. |
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| Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| Suburb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| Suburbs were created by Labor Unions, The New Deal, Progressives, The G.I.Bill, and the the idea of mass production of cars which made cars affordable for the average person. |
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| World War I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| The Great War | PBS |
| WWI and its causes and effects. |
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| The Bill of Rights |
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| United States Bill of Rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| Bill of Rights 1689 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| We all know about the Bill of Rights created in America in 1791, but what effect did The English Bill of Rights of 1689 have on The U.S. Bill of Rights. I'll give you a clue, alot. |
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| Treaty of Versailles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| The Treaty not only helped start WWII by punishing Germany too harshly, it created many of the problems we have in the Middle East today. |
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| League of Nations mandate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| What was the purpose of the League and how did it foreshadow today's United Nations? |
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| British Mandate of Palestine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| The current Israeli- Palestinian crisis was partially created during Britian's rule of Palestine. |
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| Great Depression - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| Whether you know it or not, the suburban paradise you live in here in Sheffield Lake was partially created by the New Deal, which was an attempt to solve the problems of the Great Depression. |
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| New Deal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
The average person finally gets some help from the Government. The government begins to regulate the economy.
Or in other words, the government gets involved in the economy to save it from falling apart. Say goodbye to free market economy and hello to a mixed economy. |
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| Red Scare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| Eastern Bloc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| Cold War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| Middle East - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| Social Security Online |
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| Workers Compensation - Workmans Comp Service Center |
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| Cuba Full Coverage on Yahoo! News |
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| Ptolemaic Universe |
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| Stocks Rebound After Fed Adds Liquidity: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance |
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| The Church and Copernicus |
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| Galileo Galilei |
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| Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe |
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| Isaac Newton |
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| The Scientific Revolution |
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| Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| Libya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| Darfur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| Sudan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| Balkans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| History of the Balkans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| Industrial Revolution - America and the Industrial Revolution |
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| Time Management from Mind Tools - How to manage time and maximize effectiveness |
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| French Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| Roaring Twenties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| American Empire (phrase) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| Manifest Destiny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| This is the idea the Americans have a right and duty to conquer the North American continent. This idea is tied to the idea of White Man's Burden, which states that white men are the only cultured people in the world and they have a duty to civilize all the savages of the world. They civilized the savages chiefly through spreading Christianity and Democracy( first they had to conquer the savages and take their land in order to educate them in true culture). |
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| Monroe Doctrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| Truman Doctrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| Carter Doctrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| Bush Doctrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| The Age of Imperialism |
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| Immigration Full Coverage on Yahoo! News |
| This is an emotional and controversial issue. However it is not a new one. Throughout U.S. history Americans have debated what it means to be a citizen and who we should let become citizens. Today alot of people fear the Mexicans. In the past people feared the Irish, Poles, Czechs, Italians and others. |
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| Food and Drug Administration Home Page |
| The Fair Deal, The New Deal; Government gets involved in the economy to protect average consumers: Progressivism. |
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| Mortgage mess creates lending drought - Yahoo! News |
| Compare with credit crisis in the 1920s and 1930s. Americans love to buy on credit until they overstrech themselves and the economy suffers. |
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| FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
| Direct consequence of The Great Depression, The New Deal, and its effects on today's banking and housing crisis; Government Intervention in the economy. |
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| Burma- A modern struggle for Democracy |
| The Struggle for Democracy in Asia; Influence of Enlightenment ideas and American and French Revolutions |
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| Map of Modern Africa |
| Imperialism, Islamic movements and North and Weat Africa, and how religion and nationalism intermix as a reaction to imperiaslism; for example, The French and Mauritania (West Africa); this country's choatic political history is partially a result of European Imperialism in the 19th Century. |
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| Ottoman Empire |
| The Ottoman Empire once threatened to over run all of Europe. As an Islamic Empire it threatened Christian Europe. Religious Nationalism played a major role in these wars. |
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| Industrial Revolution |
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| AP Government Website |
| This site is useful for reviewing everthing from what constutes AP government to sample test questions. |
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| Federalist Papers\ AP Government |
| No. 10 and No.51 are espicially important, as questions on these two usually appear on the AP Government test. |
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