Summer Reading Assignment (2014-2015)
AP US History II –Mrs. Murphy/Mrs. Reynolds
DQs – Discussion Questions – 25 pts
**Please refer to “How to Write the DQ Response” on your teacher’s webpage to guide you in formatting your response to your assigned question**
ASSIGNMENTS BY LAST NAME – ALPHABETICALLY:
DQ#1 – Last names A-E
DQ#2 -- Last names F-J
DQ#3 – Last names K-O
DQ#4 – Last names P-S
DQ#5 – Last names T-Z
DUE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL – Thurs./Fri., Sept.4/Sept. 5, 2014
DQ#1 (Brinkley Chapters 18 and 21; Remini Chapter 6): How did a new wave of immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe and Asia challenge the idea of what it meant to be American? This question should includePush/Pull factors for immigration, settlement patterns, nativism, and assimilation. (Theme: ID, PEO, WOR)
DQ#2 (Brinkley Chapter 21; Remini Chapter 6 and 7, Larsen): To what extent did women and African Americans challenge the limits on opportunities available to them in the Gilded Age? This question should address the migration from rural to urban areas, suffrage, settlement house/social work, labor unions, Booker T. Washington, and WEB DuBois. (Theme: ID, PEO)
DQ#3 (Brinkley Chapter 18; Remini Chapters 6, Larsen): According to historians Brinkley, Remini, and Larsen how did rapid urbanization affect politics, society and economics of the Gilded Age? This question should address the following: Political: machine politics; Society: City Beautiful Movement, living conditions, Social Gospel; Economics: development of class divide. (Theme: POL, ENV, CUL)
DQ#4 (Brinkley Chapters 19, 21, and 22; Remini Chapters 6 and 7, Larsen): How do historians Brinkley and Remini, explain how the rise of big business and government corruption resulted in calls for political, social and economic reform during the Gilded Age?How does Larsen depict the rise of corruption in The Devil and the White City?This question should address: Party system/party politics,patronage, tariffs, trusts, Progressives. (Theme: WXT, POL)
DQ#5(Brinkley Chapters 21 and 22; Remini Chapter 7):To what extent didProgressives and “muckrakers” contribute to social and governmental changeduring the Gilded Age?This question should address Jane Addams, Jacob Riis, temperance, Upton Sinclair, Robert LaFollette, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson. (Theme: POL, WXT, CUL)
Interpreting your DQ:
DQ#1 (Brinkley Chapters 16, 18 and 21; Remini Chapter 6): How did a new wave of immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe and Asia challenge the idea of what it meant to be American? This question should include Push/Pull factors for immigration, settlement patterns, nativism, and assimilation.
(Theme: ID, PEO, WOR)