9/6 and aligning the textbook reading and the curriculum!


60 Second Presidents- Andrew Johnson

1. From a recent quiz- What did Johnson's Secretary of State, William Seward purchase?

2. Why did Americans call it Seward's Folly or Seward's Icebox?

3. How were they actually wrong?

4. How could you back the other side of the argument?

5. Why did Abraham Lincoln pick Andrew Johnson as his 1864 running mate?

6. After Lincoln was assassinated- How would you evaluate Johnson's presidency?

7. Why?

60 Second Presidents- US Grant

1. What is Grant most respected for?

2. What is President Grant criticized for?

60 Second Presidents- Rutherford B. Hayes

1. How did Hayes become President?

2. What else did the Compromise of 1877 do?

3. What still existed when Hayes left office?


Note- This year I am going to align the AP lessons with the current reading

American Pageant Chapter 23 aligns best with

Period 6, Topic 7- Labor in the Gilded Age

Gilded Age

Sharecropping

Period 6, Topic 8- Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age

Period 6, Topic 9- Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age

Chinese Exclusion Act

Gentleman's Agreement

Period 6, Topic 13- Politics in the Gilded Age

Credit Mobilier Scandal

Patronage

Boss Tweed



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