February 25-26, 2015

Learning Targets:
I can describe the problems that led to WWII

I can identify what brought the United States into WWII

I can compare American foreign policy before WWII and how it changed throughout the war

Daily Question:
The old South rested everything on slavery and agriculture, unconscious that these could neither give nor maintain healthy growth. The new South presents a perfect democracy, the oligarchs leading in the popular movement-a social system compact and closely knitted, less splendid on the surface, but stronger at the core-a hundred farms for every plantation, fifty homes for every palace-and a diversified industry that meets the complex need of this complex age.
- Henry Grady, The New South, 1886, 1889

Based on the excerpt of Henry Grady’s New South, Which of the following statements best describes the change in the description of American Identity?
A. After the Civil War, the South accepted the new status of the African American as an equal citizen.
B. The South had done away with the hierarchical plantation system and replaced it with a more egalitarian society
C. The new South was the first region to grant political equality for women.
D. The South had become as industrialized as the North

Agenda:

Daily Question

Quiz on Chapter 33

WWII lecture