Notebook: New Frontier Graphic Organizer

See example on page 736 of the textbook. This is the basic organizer we created in class.  Add info as you see appropriate.
                                                 

  KENNEDY'S NEW FRONTIER

ECONOMIC INITIATIVES              ANTI-POVERTY/                      SPACE EXPLORATION

                                                       EQUALITY PROPOSALS
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Steel Price Fixing Probe              Increased minimum wage             Mercury Program
Area Redevelopment law             Area Redevelopment law              more funding for NASA
Major Weapons Contracts           distributed food to unemployed     goal: man on the moon
Major construction projects           wanted federal education aid        
Trade Expansion Act                    wanted medical care for elderly
                                                     changes in Social Security
                                                    Overhaul of the Welfare System

Notebook: Debate and Inaugural Address Q1-5

Answer the following in your spirals:
1) Why did people who watched the Kennedy/Nixon debate on tv think Kennedy won the debate, while those who listened on the radio believed Nixon won?
2) Explain the role of television and its importance in the 1960 election.
3) Why did Kennedy's phrase, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" have such a profound meaning for people during this time in the United States?
4) What domestic issues did President Kennedy attempt to address?
5) Why did Kennedy say the nation was poised at the edge of "A New Frontier"?

Notebook: 1960 Election

• The Democratic nominee for president in 1960 was a young Massachusetts senator named John Kennedy.
• He promised to "get America moving again"
• He had a well-organized campaign, was handsome, and charismatic
• The Republican nominee for president in 1960 was President Eisenhower's  Vice President, Richard Nixon.
• The candidates agreed on many domestic and foreign policy issues.
• Two main factors helped put Kennedy over the top: Television and Civil Rights support.
• On September 26, 1960, Kennedy and Nixon took part in the first televised debate between presidential candidates.
• Kennedy looked and spoke better than Nixon.
• Journalist Russell Baker said, "That night, image replaced the printed word as the national language of politics"
• Television had become so central to people's lives that many observers blamed Nixon's loss to Kennedy on his poor appearance in the televised presidential debates.
• JFK looked cool, collected, and "presidential"
• Nixon, according to one observer, resembled a "sinister chipmunk"
• The 2nd major event of the campaign took place in October 1960.
• Police arrested Martin Luther King jr. for conducting a "sit-in" at a lunch counter in Georgia.
• King was sentenced to hard labor
• While the Eisenhower Administration refused to intervene, JFK phoned King's wife and his brother, Bobby Kennedy, worked for King's release.
• The incident captured the attention of the African-American community, whose votes JFK would carry in key states.

2/3 - 2/14 Overview

Following is a basic outline of what we will be covering in class during the rest of my time here, filling in for Mr. Cash. He is scheduled to return on 2/18.

2/3-2/5: Watching the movie 13 Days & answering related questions about the Cuban Missile Crisis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tho5ZYLiuoc

2-6 & 2/7: Studying President Johnson's Great Society, both from Ch 22, Sec 2 in the text, as well as other resources.

2/10: Kennedy & Johnson Domestic Policies - Similarities & Differences

2/11: Kennedy & Johnson Foreign Policies - Similarities & Differences

2/12: Quiz Show (Review of Chapter 22)

2/13: Chapter 22 Exam

2/14: Transition to JFK Assassination (which Mr. Cash will be covering upon his return)

Ch 21-Sec 5 Questions

Ch 21 section 5

1.   Would you have followed Martin Luther King, Jr. or one of the more militant leaders (such as Malcom X, Stokely Carmichael, and so forth)? Explain your answer.

2.   Write short diary entries about the riots of Harlem, Watts, Cleveland, Chicago, Newark, or Detroit from the point of view of all of the following people:

a.   A looter

b.   A white store owner

c.   A person who lives in the neighborhood

3.   How did Malcom X’s views change after his pilgrimage in 1964?

4.   What efforts did the Black Panthers make to improve the quality of life in black communities?

5.   What effect did the murders or Martin Luther King, Jr and Robert Kennedy have on people in America?

6.   How did Black Nationalism reflect a change from the early days of the civil rights movement?

7.   How did the Black Panthers reflect Stokely Carmichael’s idea of black power?

8.   Black nationalists believed that African Americans should establish separate communities.  Write a paragraph defending or opposing this position.

Key Terms Study Guide for sem 1 final exam

sit-in                                        de jure segregation                  black power            Freedom Rides                        Yalta Conference

March on Washington            Nation of Islam                       CORE                     Martin Luther King Jr.           38^th parallel

de facto segregation             Civil Rights Act of 1964         SNCC                      Voting Rights Act of 1965      deterrence

Rosa Parks                              Bobby Kennedy                     Bus Boycott           SCLC                                      Rosenbergs

Selma March                           Brown v Board of Education  NAACP                  Bull Connor                            arms race   

Integration                               twenty-fourth amendment      filibuster                  Black Panthers                        Marshall Plan

Malcom X                               Elijah Muhammad                   beatnik                    conglomerate                           genocide

Franchise                                 transistor                                 baby boom              satellite nation                         D-Day

Cold War                                 NATO                                    Sputnik                    Blacklist                                  genocide

Brinkmanship                         McCarthyism                         HUAC                    Warsaw Pact                           internment camp

Manhattan Project                  Selective Service and Training Act                          victory garden                         carpet bombing

Ethnic Minorities Main Ideas

Below are four main ideas from Ch. 23, Section 2.  As you read, fill in at least two supporting details under each main idea.

Main Idea:  Latinos faced various forms of discrimination.

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2_____________________________________

Main Idea:  Latino activists brought about significant progress in labor and politics.

3_____________________________________

4_____________________________________

Main Idea:  Asian Americans made some progress in their fight against discrimination

5_____________________________________

6_____________________________________

Main Idea:  Native Americans faced unique problems, which they tried to fight against, but achieved only limited success.

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Define or identify each of the following terms

9. Latino

10. migrant farm worker

11. United Farm Workers (UFW)

12. American Indian Movement (AIM)