Welcome to American Studies II = History/Government
American Studies II Syllabus
Daily Entries
Expect to have Entry Questions most days. Record these into your notebooks and include the Entry Number and Date!!
I collect entries before every quiz. these are our daily grade and by the end of a quarter or semester account for a lot of points!!
Assignments will also be posted on these pages under the dates they are assigned.
How much of the time do you think you can trust the government to do what is right?
Just about always
Most of the time
Some of the time
Hardly ever
Pew Research Center:
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/06/24/public-trust-in-government-1958-2024/
Partnership for Public Service:
https://ourpublicservice.org/publications/the-state-of-public-trust-in-government-2025/
Entry 1 - 9/2/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 19 Pg 599
Why did the end of the war bring about a great upheaval to American society?
Define Cost of living
Why were people worried by the general strike in seattle?
How did governor Calvin coolidge respond to the police strike in Boston?
Entry 2 - 9/3/2025 -Ol Blue Ch 20 Pg 610
1. Why did nativism resurge during the early 1920s? What is nativism?
2. What did the Sacco-Vanzetti Case have to do with nativism?
3. What is eugenics?
4. How was the “new” Ku Klux Klan different from the original?
Entry 3 - 9/4/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 20 Pg 612
Why did President Harding sign the Emergency Quota Act?
What did the National Origins Act of 1924 do?
Who did the National Origins Act of 1924 exempt from the quota system? Why?
What is a “flapper?”
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DbkPUC3gWvbE
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DIl6DjnvJ8jA&ved=2ahUKEwis8oXKgL6PAxXdAzQIHbcdAyUQtwJ6BAgXEAI&usg=AOvVaw1Lu5T8VsLsbSWlS4jCTonK
Make it stand out
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
9/5/25 -1920s WebQuest
Complete on separate piece of paper and hand in.
Entry 4 - Ol Blue -p. 615
Define the 18th Amendment, the Volstead Act, Police Powers, Speakeasy.
How did the passage of the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act change the Federal Government’s role?
Why was the 18th Amendment repealed. When and how was it repealed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4BDnlUQ3CA
Entry 5 - Ch. 20- pg. 620
Identify Carl Sandburg, Eugene O’Neill, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Define Bohemian, Mass Media, “heroic antiheroes.”
What was the importance of Greenwich Village during the 1920s?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIsev9Z-f3I
https://study.com/academy/lesson/american-art-pop-culture-literature-of-the-1920s.html
Entry 6- 9/10/25 -Ol Blue Ch. 20 pg. 626
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Who was Marcus Garvey?