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History: Definition of Terms

DEFINITIONS: 2 Points Each! Define the Following Terms:
1. Freedmen’s Bureau 2. Sharecropping 3. Black Codes 4. Thirteenth Amendment 5. Fourteenth Amendment 6. Fifteenth Amendment 7. Tenure of Office Act 8. Impeachment 9. Carpetbaggers 10. Scalawags 11. Redeemers 12. Gilded Age 13. Bargain of 1877 14. Robber Barons 15. Dawes Act
16. Social Darwinism 17. New South 18. Populists 19. Open Door Policy 20. Progressivism 21. Muckraking 22. Scientific Management 23. Roosevelt Corollary 24. Moral Imperialism 25. Selective Service Act 26. Tulsa Riot 27. Red Scare 28. League of Nations 29. Flappers 30. New Negro

FILL IN THE BLANKS: 2 Points Each!
31. Grandfather clause, poll taxes, and gerrymandering are all methods of: _________________________________
32. Booker T. Washington’s widely praised speech at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition: _________________________________
33. This right helped settle hundreds of industrial disputes and encouraged improvements in factory safety and the establishment of pension plans: _________________________________
34. A remarkable feat of engineering constructed by the U.S. over a 10-mile strip in Latin America: _________________________________
35. The British luxury liner, sunk by a German submarine, killing thousands, including Americans: _________________________________

36. President Wilson’s this statement of American war aims and his vision of a new international order: _________________________________
37. Negotiations signed at the end of WWI outlining postwar peace: _________________________________
38. Waves of African Americans flooded into the Northern industrial cities in search of opportunities: _________________________________
39. The flourishing of the vibrant Black cultural community that established links with New York’s artistic mainstream for the basis of: _________________________________
40. The greatest economic disaster in modern history: _________________________________
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS: 4 Points Each! (Answer in complete paragraphs: 5-7 sentences)
41. What were the social and political effects of Radical Reconstruction in the South? Discuss and list Black Leaders during this period.
42. Discuss the rise of Big Businesses and key barons. Why were railroads so important to America’s second industrial revolution?
43. Discuss the Spanish-American War and its impact on American Expansionism. Discuss the Chinese Exclusion Act.
44. Discuss Progressivism and identify the main groups and ideas that drove the Progressive movements.
45. How did WWI and its aftermath provide African Americans with opportunities? Discuss W.E.B. DuBois and the rise of the NAACP. Discuss Marcus Garvey and the rise of Garveyism.

Union Employees and Strikes

Topic 1: If union employees wish to strike what procedure must they follow?

Topic 2: What is arbitration and why is it necessary?

Topic 3: Pick any topic from the chapters and explain its importance.

Aging and Medical Care

Aging and Medical Care Writing Exercise

After watching the videos entitled “Cost of Dying” and “Shortcomings of the Medical Model” and reading the consumer reports article on aggressive medical care and the overtreatment in the US article, please write a 4-7 page paper using the following directions.

  • Your paper should be in paragraph form and written like an actual paper (i.e. no short answer responses).
  • Your paper MUST include a reference page with all of your sources in APA format.
  • Your paper should also include in-text citations. (You should give credit in the body of the paper any time you use someone else’s thought or ideas, even if you paraphrase.)
  • You must use the resources provided.
  • You must find a minimum of 1 additional source and include it in your paper and reference page. You can use more, but you must find at least 1 more.
  • I am fine with using first person, it is your argument, but remember your argument should be backed up by research and evidence.
  • You should avoid unscientific resources like Wikipedia!
  • If you do not include a reference page, you will automatically receive a zero.
  • If you do not use in text citations you will automatically receive a zero.

Topic

Many people believe that more is better and that this extends to health care. There are many pieces of evidence presented in the videos and articles that address this issue. Please consider this perspective in the light of the evidence presented. In your consideration, be sure to include evidence (such as does it lead to better quality of life? longer life? how do most people wish to die?). Using the evidence presented, present a thoughtful argument for or against aggressive health care. Your paper should include an introduction and conclusion. In your paper, make sure to address the following topics.

  1. What is the medical model and why does the doctor in this video feel that the medical model is failing? (consider the goals, as presented and how it is accomplished).
  2. What is presented as the human development model and how does it differ from the medical model? How might it compliment the medical model?
  3. How might the human development model help people with the process of dying?
  4. How does the current state of health care and insurance maintain and contribute to the problem (consider all evidence provided in the videos and the article. what is the evidence about geography? availability of medical equipment and medical care, how doctors/hospitals are paid, consumer attitudes, and so on.)
  5. What is hospice care and palliative care?
  6. What are other end of life care options that could help individuals during this time?

Resources

The following resources are the same resources that are found on blackboard. They are listed here as a backup.

Video Links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK8IL2-zYN8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6xPBmkrn0g

Research articles:

Click http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/04/too-much-treatment/index.htm link to open resource.

Click https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5587107/ link to open resource.

The last chapter in your text book might also be a good resource, especially to discuss hospice and other end of life options.