Unit+6

__Readings__: - Text: Chapters 21 & 22 - //World War I//: Chapters 12 & 13 (America’s Involvement) - Book Excerpts: //Eye Deep in Hell: Trench Warfare in World War I// - Handouts __Themes__: 1. Media’s role in oversight of business & government 2. Government’s history with regulating social issues & vices 3. Changing roles & identity of women 4. America’s influence over and dependence on other countries 5. How a president’s philosophy drives domestic & foreign affairs 6. How industrialization changed warfare forever
 * Unit 6: Progressivism ****è ** ** World War One (2 weeks) ** [[image:Progressivism.jpg width="198" height="241" align="right"]]

__Content__: · The political, social, & intellectual roots of progressive reform · Social justice vs. social control · Degradation of the inner cities · The Progressive presidents · America’s growing international focus · Economic ties to western Europe make neutrality impossible in WWI · Mobilizing society & the economy for war · War critics & government repression of them · Woodrow Wilson’s world plan

__Projects__: Students are given 5 free response questions from AP exams and must write well-constructed outlines for each, using the steps we have gone over in class. __Free Response Essay__: 1. Discuss how progressivism offered an uneasy combination of social justice and social control.
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__Document Based Question__: 1. Using the documents and your knowledge of this topic, evaluate the circumstances that led to the shift in the American position regarding entrance into World War I.

__Discussions__: 1. Whose morals should we live by? 2. Should government protect a person from him/herself? 3. Positive and negative consequences of the women’s movement? 4. What is the difference between being “equal” and “the same”? 5. Does government protect us from big business or join forces with it? 6. Is democracy the final stage of governments? 7. Is speaking out against a war unpatriotic or our duty as democratic citizens?

__Movies:__ **[|Hoffa]** - The story of union leader Jimmy Hoffa and his battle against Teddy Roosevelt **[|Last of His Tribe]**(TV Movie) - True story of the last Yahi Indian, who shocked the world when he wandered out of the hills of California and was befriended by an Anthropologist. **[|Legends of the Fall] ****- Epic tale of three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of the 1900s and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love.**