Today's Agenda

Content Standards: HS.UH.CE.2
Analyze the events that caused the United States to emerge as a global power between 1890-1991.

Learning Target:
I can explain the political, economic, & cultural factors that fueled the growth of American imperialism.

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: If you could visit anywhere in the world, where would you go? Why?
2. Citizenship Question: In what month is the Election Day for President? 
3. A. January 
   B. June 
   C. August 
   D. November
4. Independent Learning: World Atlas Activity
5. Reflection Question: Which continent do you know the most about? The least?