Chapter 37 - 7th and 8th Grade

Chapter 37

1. How and why did Gerald Ford become Vice President, and then President?
2. What two “messes” did Ford have to deal with when he became President?
3. Why did some support the pardon of Nixon?
4. What controversial subjects did Betty Ford talk about?
5. Who defeated Ford to become the 39th President?
6. What was the energy crisis?
7. Who held some Americans hostage for 444 days?
8. How did the rescue attempt go?
9. What did Carter do with the Panama Canal?
10. Name one positive attribute of Carter, as well as one negative.
11. How did Carter try to solve problems like the national debt?

Page 136 + Chapter 36

1. What happened at My Lai?
2. How did the American people find out about what had happened there?
3. Why didn’t William Calley Jr. serve out his life sentence?
4. Describe Richard Nixon as a child.
5. What did the 26th Amendment do?
6. What tactics did Nixon use to campaign for congress?
7. Nixon served as Vice President to which President?
8. What is a pragmatist?
9. What happened after Saigon fell to North Vietnam?
10. What were some of the illegal acts that Nixon’s staff committed?
11. What happened at Watergate?
12. What was Nixon charged with?
13. The London Spectator had what to say about Washington and Nixon?

11/12th Grade US History Homework

Chapter 15 Pgs 407-415

1. Describe the situation in the south following the Civil War.
2. Describe the situation of newly freed blacks in the south.
3. What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
4. Was Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction radical or conservative? Describe the plan.
5. How was the Wade-Davis Bill different than Lincoln’s plan?
6. Why was Johnson a poor President?
7. What did the 14th Amendment do?
8. What did the 15th Amendment do?
9. Why did congress impeach Johnson, and were they successful in removing him?

Gandhi Assignment 7th/8th Grade

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7th/8th Grade Binder Organization + Chapter 27

Binder Organization

Chapter 27

1. How did funding for the Vietnam war affect the Great Society programs?
2. Why did Henry David Thoreau go to jail?
3. What types of leaders did we back in South Vietnam?
4. What choice did the Vietnamese people face?
5. What did U.S. forces do to make it harder for the Viet Cong to find food and support?
6. What was the capital of North Vietnam?
7. What was the capital of South Vietnam?
8. What is a POW?
9. How did POW’s communicate?
10. How did Commander Denton let people know that POW’s were being tortured?
11. What was the war about to the Vietnamese?
12. What was Dorothy Day protesting, and how did she protest?

11th/12th Grade Civil War Figures Assignment

I want you to work in a group of 2-3 to research a general, soldier, or political figure during the Civil War (Lincoln is off limits!).

Learn about their history, combat experience, contributions during the war, etc. You will need to use this class period to do research, and you will then make a poster about that person.

7th/8th Blank Vietnam Map

7th/8th - Vietnam War Notes

7th/8th Chapter 11

Chapter 11

1. What were the countries that made up Indochina?
2. Who ruled Vietnam before its independence?
3. What country did the US give its independence in 1946?
4. Define Imperialism.
5. Who led Vietnam in its war for independence, and why didn’t the US support him?
6. How were the beliefs of Confucianism different than those of Americans/Westerners?
7. Why didn’t elections occur in Vietnam?
8. What region of Vietnam was communist?
9. Why didn’t Eisenhower want Vietnam to fall to communism?
10. What did Eisenhower think about victory in Vietnam? (write the quote)
11. Based on what you read in this chapter, would you have gone to war in Vietnam? Why or why not?