short answer questions for the finals

1. To what extent was Theodore Roosevelt a “Progressive” president?
2. What were the arguments for and against US entry into World War I?
3. What role did the US play in World War II? 
4. How did the Vietnam War change the United States?
5. How did the women’s movement change the United States?
6. How did the US fight the Cold War? 

ELECTORAL COLLEGE

Sorry I'm still stunned by this election
Let's see if this so called ELECTORAL COLLEGE is a good tool to solve the problem of factions
I'm sorry but I feel this system is a failure
“The Federalist Papers,” the Constitution is designed to ensure “that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.” The point of the Electoral College is to preserve “the sense of the people,” while at the same time ensuring that a president is chosen “by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice.”

Reconstructive Finance Corporation (RFC)

Federal agency established by Helbert Hoover in 1932 to help American industry by lending government funds to endangered banks and corporations, which Hoover hoped would benefit people at the bottom through trickle-down economics. In practice, this strategy provided little help to the poor. At first it lent money only to financial, industrial, and agricultural institutions, but the scope of its operations was greatly widened by the New Deal administrations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It financed the construction and operation of war plants, made loans to foreign governments, provided protection against war and disaster damages, and engaged in numerous other activities. In 1939 the RFC merged with other agencies to form the Federal Loan Agency, and Jesse Jones, who had long headed the RFC, was appointed federal loan administrator. After Jones became (1940) Secretary of Commerce, Congress transferred (1942) the RFC to his department. When Henry Wallace succeeded (1945) Jones, Congress removed the agency from Dept. of Commerce control and returned it to the Federal Loan Agency. 

Spanish Flu

The influenza or flu pandemic of 1918 to 1919, the deadliest in modern history, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide–about one-third of the planet’s population at the time–and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims. More than 25 percent of the U.S. population became sick, and some 675,000 Americans died during the pandemic. The 1918 flu was first observed in Europe, the U.S. and parts of Asia before swiftly spreading around the world. Surprisingly, many flu victims were young, otherwise healthy adults. At the time, there were no effective drugs or vaccines to treat this killer flu strain or prevent its spread. In the U.S., citizens were ordered to wear masks, and schools, theaters and other public places were shuttered. Researchers later discovered what made the 1918 pandemic so deadly: In many victims, the influenza virus had invaded their lungs and caused pneumonia.

Gilded Age

The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. This is the period of enormous economic growth and ostentatious display of wealth during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Industrialization dramatically changed in U.S. society and created newly dominant group of rich entrepreneurs and an impoverished working class  

Mid term format

For midterm i would like to see 5 written question, 5 matching questions and probably 5 true and false questions.

My 3 key terms that stood out while reading were: 

Bill of right- first ten amendments  of the constitution. Written by James Madison. They avoided anything that said all men are created equal which helped to deny slave rights. Freedom of religion, speech,press,assembly,petition;protection from unreasonable searches and seizures(captures), right to speedy and free trials

Secession- South Carolina was the first state to leave (1860) because of the result of the election. They felt they had no voice. they created the confederate states of America in 1861. followed by other 6 states.

Free soil- movement opposed to any expansion of slavery.

 examples of short answer question 

In what ways did different Indian groups defy and resist colonial rule?

what was most significant about American expansion after civil war?

WE SHALL ALL GET A+ :)

MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR

Gold was discovered in California just days before Mexico ceded the land to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
http://www.history.com/topics/mexican-american-war