Today's Agenda

Content Standards: HS.UH.CO.3
Analyze the role of the United States in global compromises and conflicts between 1890-1945 in the Spanish American War, World War I, the Interwar years and World War II. 

Learning Target:
I analyze the causes and effects of the Spanish American War.

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: When is war justified? Explain your reasoning.
2. Citizenship Question: How many years are there in one term of office for a U.S. President? 
   A. 2 
   B. 4 
   C. 6 
   D. 8
3. Collaborative Learning: Spanish American War Document Study
4. Reflection Question: Was the Spanish American War justified? Explain your reasoning.

Homework: American Imperialism Reading