SPRING BREAK

Extra Credit may be done over the break.  Under the all assignments link, click on the extra credit assignment.  Pick one of the options.

Have a great break.

3/17-18 Apollo 1-8

Entrance Quiz

Apollo 1 diagnosed.

Apollo 8 discussed: 1968 Events, Importance of leaping ahead of the Soviets again, etc.....

3/16 Apollo 1 Intro

Entrance Quiz

Intro to Apollo 1

3/12-13 Space Race Mercury--Gemini

Space Race Mercury --Gemini

3/9-11 Space Race

Intro to Space Race--  Intro to Mr. Charles

Space Race Internet Activity:  This assignment is on the right side of the blog.  Click on it and begin.  Assignments will be due on 3/11---we have 3 days in the library to complete your project.

3/5 LBJ Quiz--Intro to Space Race

LBJ Quiz

Intro to Space Race---Article and Questions.  Due in class or beginning of class (6th period) on Monday 3/9

3-4 Finished graphic organizer/foldable and took notes on LBJ's Great Society

Notes on LBJ's Great Society:

Do Cornell Notes: Questions on side and summary at end.
Fill in blank answers:

Senator Barry Goldwater, integration, nuclear weapons, landslide, Democrats, strong mandate, The Great Society, America, 206, Great Society, Voting Rights Act of 1965, literacy tests, Western Europe, Immigration Act of 1965, quotas, key, Great Society, students, schools, Need, Higher Education Act (1965), Medicare and Medicaid, Medicare, Medicaid, Open-housing, De Jure Segregation: By law, De Facto Segregation: By social norm or preference,  pollution, Clean up water and clean up the air, Seatbelts, Nutritional information, 70%, Some Americans did not like the increase of government control

Essential Question: Describe LBJ’s strong presence in domestic policies.

_____________________:
-Republicans nominated _________________________.

-Goldwater opposed LBJ’s social legislation and ________________.

-Goldwater supported the use of _______________________!

LBJ Wins!:
-LBJ wins the election by a _____________________!

-The ___________________ also had a majority in Congress.

-LBJ had a _______________________ and was able to get his legislation passed.

LBJ- Building “_____________________”

-His vision for __________________ was “The Great Society.”

-______________of LBJ’s ______________________ legislative pieces would be passed.

_______________________________:

-No ___________________ for voting. All would be registered the same!

Immigration Reform:
-National Origins Act of 1924:  Discriminated against and limited immigration from all nations except for ___________________.

-LBJ signed the ______________________________.

-Abolished old ______________ and opened the door to all     cultures.

Education:
LBJ considered it “the ______ which can unlock the door to the ________________.”

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: School supplies for __________ and not ____________! ___________ determined how many supplies and textbooks were given.
_______________________: Helping people pay for college!

Healthcare:
-During LBJ’s presidency, ____________________________were established.

-________________: Hospital insurance and low-cost medical care to the elderly.
-_________________: Health benefits for the poor.

Housing:
-Congress gave money to build 240,000 low-rent public housing.
-____________________: No discrimination/segregation.

-___________________________________________________

-___________________________________________________

-Created the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
-HUD is a part of the president’s cabinet.

Keep America Beautiful!
-User fees at national parks/forests.
-Designated land as wilderness land. No roads or commercial development.
-Limited _______________ by passing laws. _____________________________________________!


Keep Americans Safe!
-_____________________ in cars!

-_______________________ on food.


Americans Love LBJ!
-He had an approval rating of about ___________________

-__________________________________________________, but others liked the help they received.

Summary:

TEST DAY IS TOMORROW!! You can use one side of a notecard!
Bring your foldable!

3/3 Warren Commission Notes/ LBJ Task

Warren Commission- LBJ used executive order to create the Warren Commission. The Warren Commission investigated JFK's assassination. After a year, the Warren Commission determined that Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated JFK. This report was over 800 pages long!

Then out of the textbook we read pages 48-51 and completed a graphic organizer. (http://cmase.pbworks.com/f/LayeredLookBook.pdf) This website shows you how. We used two sheets of paper and you can staple it together. War of Poverty had its own tab. Food Stamp Act and Tax Cut shared a tab. Civil Rights Act and Title VII shared a tab. Economic Opportunity Act received its own tab.

War on Poverty:

1.       Explain: (What is it? What does it mean?)

2.       Who was poor?

3.       How did the government determine who was living in poverty?

4.       What brought attention to poverty?

5.       How did the American people view the role of the government?

6.       In addition to feeding the population, what else did LBJ recommend?

7.       Draw a picture that represents the term.

Food Stamp Act

1.       What had Kennedy already done?

2.       What did LBJ propose?

3.       Was the Food Stamp Act widely advertised when it began?

4.       Draw a picture.

Tax Cut

1.       Who had attempted to cut taxes?

2.       What did LBJ do?

3.       Draw a picture.

Civil Rights Act

1.       What was the heart of the bill?

2.       What were peoples’ views of integration?

3.       What Republican Senator opposed this act? What were his reasons for opposing?

4.       What was the failure of the Civil Rights Act?

5.       What did the Civil Rights Act accomplish?

6.       Draw a picture.

Title VII

1.       What did Title VII describe?

2.       How were jobs before this act?

3.       How did Johnson display his support for this act? Describe.

4.       Draw a picture.

Economic Opportunity Act

1.       What was the purpose of the Economic Opportunity Act? Who was it for?

2.       How was the Economic Opportunity Act funded?

3.       List and define the programs created by the Economic Opportunity Act.

4.       Add Project Head Start to your list. Project Head Start was designed to help break the cycle of poverty by providing preschool children of low-income families with a program to meet their emotional, social, health, nutritional and psychological needs. (You should have six programs listed under the Economic Opportunity Act.)

Predict (on back)

Johnson decides to run for president in 1964. Predict the outcome of the election. Provide reasoning and support.

3/2- Johnson Notes

See previous day's assignment.
In addition, here are the rest of the blanks.

A New Deal Congressman

Johnson's victory began a thirty-two-year political career that would end in the White House. After the election, President _____________________ visited Texas, and warmly greeted the new congressman. FDR admired Johnson's _________ and predicted that someday he would become the "_________________________" since the _____________________. An active congressman, Johnson used his New Deal ________________ to bring ______________________. In 1941, he ran for __________________. On election night, Johnson held a lead but announced his vote tallies too soon, allowing the opponent to "find" enough votes and Johnson __________. When America entered _________________, Johnson briefly served in the _____________. He received a silver star from General Douglas MacArthur for having flown as a passenger in a bomber that was attacked by Japanese planes (none of the others on board received a medal). When President Roosevelt called on members of Congress to choose between military and legislative service, Johnson ____________ to the House. In 1948, he ran for ________ again. Having learned his lesson from the previous Senate race, Johnson __________ on announcing his vote tallies and with the help of some friendly _______________ eked out an ____-vote victory for which he was received the nickname "________________."

A Southern Moderate

Johnson rode into the Senate in 1949 on the political wave that returned Harry Truman to the White House and Democratic majorities to both houses of Congress.

Johnson desired to further his career in politics. By watching other politicians, he realized that he would need to distance himself from being known as a _______________________if he wanted to become _____________________.

Turmoil in the Democratic ranks elevated Johnson swiftly in the Senate. In 1950, the Democratic majority leader and whip were both defeated for reelection. Democrats chose ________________as their new ___________. A whip is the _________________________. Two years later, Johnson was elected Democratic floor leader. He was still serving in his first senatorial term. A senator’s term last for __________.

Democratic Leader

As majority leader, Lyndon Johnson demonstrated unending ____________, ambition, attention to detail, and an overwhelming __________.

His close aide John Connally described Johnson as alternately

“_____________ and kind, generous and ______________, sensitive and insensitive, __________ and naive, ruthless and ____________, simple in many ways yet extremely complex, caring and totally not _____________; he could overwhelm people with _________ and turn around and be ________ towards those same people; he knew how to use ___________ in politics in the way nobody else could that I know of.”

Above all, Johnson was a compromiser, a broker, and a _______ of the art of the deal. His hands-on method of persuading other senators, with its sweet talk, threats, and exaggerated facial expressions and body language, became widely known as "____________________."

The Senate leader did not ____________, but "the pressure of his presence and the __________ of his __________ and the movement of his body made it hard to say no." A keen judge of people, Johnson knew how far to __________ and when to coax. "Any compromise that Lyndon made," Ford concluded, "he got better than fifty percent." Johnson insisted that his only power as majority leader was the ________________. But a fellow Senator, noted that "__________" often meant doing ____________: putting senators on desired committees, sending them on ________, arranging for campaign contributions, and even getting them honorary college degrees.

Civil Rights

The majority leader's signal achievement was the passage in 1957 of the first ______________ since Reconstruction. _______________ refers to the period in United States history following the _______________ in which the federal government set the conditions that would allow the Southern states back into the Union.

 This act served as a large step in his transformation from a _________________. Although Johnson's support of the act may not have been completely ________, those closest to him believed that he also felt genuine compassion for _____________________ and for the _________. He spoke often of the hardships of his own childhood, and those memories seemed to inspire him to _______ something significant with his _____. "Nobody needed to talk to him about why it's __________ to get ahead," one Senator commented. "He was ___________ that all the time to everybody."

The fact that Congress passed any civil rights bill held symbolic significance, but angry liberals felt that the watered-down bill simply elevated "_____________." Liberals pointed out that the bill provided _______________ with little protection for either _____________.

As the ________________ approached, several senators jumped into the presidential race, but Lyndon Johnson held back. Even though his position in the Senate was powerful, he had less time to campaign for the Democratic ticket than __________________.

 Johnson was caught off-guard by Kennedy's savvy and sophisticated campaign. Johnson later said, "that Jack Kennedy's a lot __________, and maybe a lot ________, than I thought he was."

The 1960 Election

Kennedy won the Democratic nomination and then had ______ hours to select ________________. Some advisors urged Kennedy to choose ________ in order to carry Texas and the South. When John Kennedy reported that he would offer the second spot to Johnson, his brother interpreted the move as a ______________ to keep the peace, since Johnson had told people he would never accept the second spot. Then Johnson astonished both brothers by _____________. Considering the choice a terrible mistake, Robert Kennedy was delegated to talk the Texan out of running. But a tearful Johnson declared, "I want to be ______________, and, if the President will have me, I'll join him in making a fight for it." John Kennedy chose to retain him on the ticket, but the __________ between Johnson and Robert Kennedy never _____________.

Pondering why Johnson had accepted, some of his aides thought that he saw no future in being Kennedy's majority leader. If he succeeded in enacting the party platform, the credit would have gone to the _____________. If he failed, the blame would have been his. Johnson believed that, if he had ________________ the vice-presidency, he would have been "_____________" of party affairs in the future.

A New Deal Congressman
Roosevelt, energy, first Southern president, Civil War, connections, electricity to rural areas, Senate, lost, WWII, Navy, returned, Senate, delayed, political machines, 87, Landslide Lyndon
Summarize and Reflect (I think.. This reminds me...)

A Southern Moderate
Southern senator, president, Johnson, whip, second in command, six years
Summarize

Democratic Leader
energy, personality, cruel, greedy, crafty, thoughtful, caring, kindness, cruel, people, master, the Johnson treatment, twist arms, strength, voice, push, power to persuade, persuasion, favors, trips
Summarize and Analyze (Analyze Johnson's character.)

Civil Rights
civil rights bill, Reconstruction, Civil War, southerner to national figure, noble, African-Americans, poor, achieve, life, important, preaching, symbol over substance, southern blacks, civil and voting rights, election of 1960, John F. Kennedy, tougher, smarter
Summarize and either Analyze or Reflect

1960 Election
24, a vice president, Johnson, gesture, accepting, vice president, tension, went away, president, declined, left out.
Summarize and Ask a Question