1. Good morning! Please get out your First Four tracker. POVL Source D
Origin
Purpose
Value
Limitations
Keep this with all of your other First Four Work

2. The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era: 1870s to 1920s
Why were the 1870s and 1880s decades of rapid industrialisation?
• The growth of trusts and corporations – Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, etc.
• Technological innovations
• The growth of the railways
• Trade policies, e.g. tariffs
How great were the economic and social consequences of rapid industrialisation in the late nineteenth century?
• New immigration vs. Old immigration
• Economic growth and recessions
• The realities of urbanization – life in the cities
• The farming crisis
What were the main aims of the Progressive Movement in the 1890s and 1900s – laws and constitutional amendments?
• Limits on party machines and bosses
• Prohibition
• Female emancipation
• Regulation of private corporations
How successful was the Progressive Movement?
• The career of Theodore Roosevelt
• Constitutional reforms – 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments
• The presidency of Woodrow Wilson

3. The Great Crash, the Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929–1941
How great was the impact of the Great Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression on the USA?
• Economic developments in the 1930s
• Developments in US society
• Political change in the 1930s – Realignment and rise of the New Deal coalition of Democrats
The USA in the 1920s
How effective were the strategies used by Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt to deal with the domestic problems facing the USA in the 1930s?
• The economic and social polices of Herbert Hoover
• The 100 Days and the First New Deal
• The Second New Deal
• Franklin Roosevelt’s political strategies
How effective was the opposition to the New Deal?
• Opposition from the liberal left
• Opposition from the conservative right
• Opposition from the Supreme Court
Based on his leadership of the USA in the 1930s, how far does Franklin Roosevelt deserve his reputation as one of the great US presidents?
• The case for: durable change
• The case against: limited economic impact, challenge to US values
• The historical debate

4. Paper 1 Review Activity
Vocabulary Review – Origins of the Civil War 1840s-1860
Paper 1 – Thursday, May 5
1 Hour
40% of AICE History Exam Grade
Four documents
Part A – Compare/Contrast in light of …
Part B – How far to the sources support the view that…

5. Paper 1 Part A: 15-20 Minutes Compare/Contrast docs in light of…
Must demonstrate three things
Contextual Knowledge
Evaluation of Sources (POVL)
Compare/Contrast
Must answer the question

6. Paper 1 Part A: 15-20 Min Compare/Contrast docs in light of…
Must demonstrate three things
Contextual Knowledge
Evaluation of Sources (POVL)
Compare/Contrast
Must answer the question
One section telling how the sources are the same
One section telling how the sources are different
One section - your own analysis of whether the sources are similar or different and making a final judgment of whether they are similar or different and why.

7. Paper 1 Part B: 40-45 Minutes How far to the sources support…
Contextual Knowledge
What do you know? Vocabulary? Historical setting?
Analysis of Each Source
How far does each support…
In what ways does each support…
In what ways does each not support…
Grouping of Sources
Source A & C are similar in that…
Source B & D are similar b/c…However, they disagree that…
Make a final conclusion or argument that answers the question.