Today's Agenda

AP Learning Objective:
Explain the causes and consequences of U.S. involvement in World War I.​

Learning Target:
I can describe the events that led the United States into World War I, & I can analyze the war’s impact on American society.

Critical Vocabulary: Imperialism, Great White Fleet, White Man’s Burden, Yellow Journalism, De Lome Letter, U.S.S. Maine, Spanish American War, Treaty of Paris, Anti-Imperialist League, Open Door Policy, Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary, Gunboat Diplomacy, Dollar Diplomacy, Moral Diplomacy, Nationalism, Allied Powers, Central Powers, Lusitania, Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, Zimmerman Note, Fourteen Points, Propaganda, Selective Service Act, American Expeditionary Force, Great Migration, Espionage  & Sedition Acts, Schenck v. United States, Treaty of Versailles, War Guilt Clause, Red Scare, Palmer Raids, Immigration Acts, Red Summer, Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, Speakeasies, Bootleggers, Organized Crime, Twenty-First Amendment, Scopes Trial, Nineteenth Amendment, Flapper, Harlem Renaissance Jazz Age
 
Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: Complete the American Imperialism Assessment.
2. Citizenship Question: What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful? 
   1. the military 
   2. the Bill of Rights
   3. checks and balances 
   4. the Federal Reserve
3. Guided Instruction: World War I
4. Reflection Question: Do you think the U.S. should have gotten involved in World War I before 1917? Explain.

Homework: World War I Reading