Last Congress Unit Article

Here it is. It looks long, but it's an interview with Boehner about the state of the union address and his views as Speaker.

If you'd rather watch it, do so here

AP Euro 19th Century Economics Vocab & Reading

Reading due tuesday. Quiz Quiz & Vocab Quiz Tuesday


Reading:

783- Great Britain: Fabianism and EArly Welfare
784- France: Opportunism rejected
784-785- Germany: Social Democrats a& Revisionism
787-788- Lenin's Early thought and career

Vocab:

1. Population philosopher who believed that population would outgrow food supply
2. Man who believed that a minimum wage doesn’t help the poor, as they just have more children to compensate
3. The growing class defined by their comfortable lives and disposable income
4. The growing domestic areas outside of cities noted for clean, comfortable living
5. The term used to describe the middle class woman’s sphere of the household
6. The use of workers as young as 6 or 7 for their cheap wages
7. The bill that outlawed child labor
8. The organizations developed by workers to protect rights and safety, as well as better working conditions
9. Father of British sanitation
10. Scientist who developed Germ Theory
11. Middle class women who struggle for the right to vote
12. Term for the small business owners and shopkeepers in the lower middle class
13.  The idea that the means of production should be shared by the community as a whole
14.  The economic system that uses the free market and competition to determine ownership
15.  A centrally planned economy in which forced equality provided the basic needs to all people without competition or wealth
16.  A version of socialism in which the workers become self aware and take violent control of the means of production

State of the Union + AP = AWESOME

Ok, so you still have to watch it, but...


NO WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT.

Instead, I will be giving a short answer quiz on Friday. Be prepared to discuss tomorrow (Wed).

Budget website

Here it is!

Assignment related to this will be edited into this post later.

The unbearable lightness of being a doofus.

So, teenagers, once again, a few of you have managed to irk me and caused the rest to suffer. Fantastic. Always a testament to the amazing potential of mankind to screw up a good thing.

You must now be a registered user to post comments. I have had to delete/moderate idiotic comments by students who have nothing better to do.

This is why we can't have nice things.


*stalks off grumbling*

AP Euro: Ch 21/22 politics Vocab & reading

Quiz and vocab quiz WEDNESDAY, the 26th


Reading
g. 732: The Crimean war & Peace settlement
Pg. 738: The New Italian State
Pg. 756: The Irish Question
Pg. 745-746: The Dreyfus Affair

Vocabulary

1. Liberal revolutions that broke out throughout continental Europe and saw universal liberal failure. 
2. The Chancellor of Prussia and Leader of German unification through “Blood and Iron”
3. The Prime Minister of Piedmont who drive Italian Unification through international diplomacy
4. The “Romantic Republican” who led nationalist military forces to unification and victory in Italy
5. War caused by Russian expansion into south eastern Europe, tested the balance of power in
6. Europe and helped bring Italy to the national stage.
7. The politician whose famous name allowed him to become elected to lead France, later to create the second Empire as a dictator.
8. The war which excluded Austria from German Affairs (BOTH names)
9. The war in which victory brought final German unification.
10. The idea that some ethnic Germans should be excluded from unification
11. After the fall of the second Empire, this radical socialist government briefly rose to power
12. The name of France’s republican government after the fall of the Commun
13. An event that laid bare the anti-jewish bias of modern Europe
14. The event that created a shared monarchy between Austria and Hungary
15. This increased again the franchise in Great Britain, creating a more representative government. 
16. The name of the on again, off again CONSERVATIVE prime minister in Great Britain
17. The name of the on again, off again LIBERAL prime minister in Great Britain

Congress Unit

Section 1: Basics of Congress

Members
Elections

Pre-Reading Notes: Pg. 354-364
Article: Hey, Congress: Keep Your Day Jobs

Section 2: Organization of Congress
Characteristics of Houses
Leadership & Caucasus
Committees & Subcommittees
How a bill becomes a Law (Flow chart)

Pre reading notes: 366-375
Article: 4 amendments and a funeral (I will try to get a better looking version up)
WARNING: There's a touch of foul language in this article. If this offends you, I will offer an alternative. See me.

Section 3: Congress & the budget process
Acts & Reforms
Balancing the budget: computer lab activity

Pre-reading: 455-459
Article: Are Democrats the Party of "No"?

For more information in the Debt Ceiling, go HERE

Section 4: Congress' Relationships with other linkage groups
Congress & the President
Congress & The Party/ Electorate
Congress & Lobbyists/ Interest Groups

Pre Reading: 378-383
Article: TBA

Quiz
Paper

Computer Lab Days: 1/18, 1/21

AP Euro: Ch. 20 Reading and Vocab

Reading:
Nationalism: 658-659, 662 the relationship of of nationalism and conservatism

The spanish Revolution of 1820: 670-671

Revolutions in Greece and serbia: 672-673

Independence in New Spain & Brazil 677-678

Vocabulary

1.  An extreme pride in one’s nation and a major driving force of 19th century politics

2.  Reformists who were inspired by the ideals of the enlightenment; usually middle class, educated property holders

3.  A group made up of an alliance between the church, the wealthy, and the monarchy to preserve the social and political traditions of Europe

4.  German student groups united behind liberal reforms

5.  The acts which dissolved the liberal German student groups and increased university censorship

6.  A series of taxes on imported grain that kept English grain prices high and left high bread prices for the common workers

7.  A series of English laws that were designed to give the government new power to suppress liberal activities.

8.  French supporters of the monarchy who persuade Louis XVIII to abandon Liberal Reforms.

9.  Leader of the Haitian Revolution

10. Leaders of the South American Revolutions

11. Two social groups in Pre-Revolutionary South America

12. South American Political Committees

13. The Russian Tsar who’s dictator like policies left no doubt of his power.

14. A group of Russian soldiers who protested in favor of a constitution and a more moderate tsar; they ultimately failed

15. The 1830 revolution in France that led to the abdication of the king and the more moderate rule of Louis Philip

16. A law that increased the number of people in Great Britain who could vote, but kept the requirement that voters hold property