1. Recap
Using you’re the first part of your HW and what you learned last week, answer the following four questions with as many points as you can. You will ‘pass the buck’ after two minutes.
What does ‘the American Dream’ mean to Americans?
Why was ‘the American’ dream not a reality? Where were there contradictions?
What aspects of American History (or events) will we need to study to appreciate the changing visions and realities of the American Dream?
How does the ‘Separation of Powers’ system work to balance power in the US government? Give examples.
Politics
What aspects of American History (or events) will we need to study to appreciate the changing visions and realities of the American Dream?
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Party ideology (Democrat v Republican)

2. ‘The American Dream’ = the ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved.
Liberty over equality
Laissez faire
Private enterprise
Autonomy
Capitalism
Wage labour
Democracy

3. The upper house (2 senators are elected from each state)
535 voting members
435. Lower house,
(based on population)
100 Senators.
The upper house (2 senators are elected from each state)

4. Checks and Balances

5. Homework due
TASK ONE: (verbal answers)
Read the first page of the A3 textbook handout ‘The American Dream’. Make sure that you can answer the following:
What does ‘the American Dream’ mean to Americans?
Why was ‘the American’ dream not a reality? Where were there contradictions?
What aspects of American History (or events) will we need to study to appreciate the changing visions and realities of the American Dream?
TASK TWO: Read Foner’s introduction. (written answers)
What do the majority of Americans value over ‘equality’? What is the difference?
Why are there so many different definitions of ‘freedom’ in US history?
What political freedoms do Americans believe in?
What do Americans believe are the social conditions for freedom? Why are these linked to political discussions of freedom?
What is the inherent contradiction of the statement that ‘liberty is an entitlement of all humanity’.
Why is the title of the book ironic?
Challenge:
Read Chapter 1! Summarise the chapter in no more than two sentences.

6. We will study this unit chronologically:

7. How did the political environment change from 1917-33?
Republican Government :
Rugged Individualism
The impacts of WWI
The Red Scare
Return to Normalcy
Prohibition
Isolationism

8. What did it mean to be a Republican in 1917?
LOs:
1. To recall how the Separation of Powers in government worked to balance power
2. To explain the decline of progressivism as a result of WWI
3. To evaluate factors that led to a rise in Republicanism

9. Spot the pattern
William MckKinley Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson Warren Harding Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover Franklin D Roosevelt

10. Woodrow Wilson and Progressivism
Tasks:
Read the information sheet on the Progressive Era and answer the following:
What was Progressivism?
How did Roosevelt and Wilson differ in their progressivism?
What progressive measures did Wilson introduce?
When and why did the progressive era come to end?
Why do historians disagree in evaluating the progressive era?
Challenge:
Where and how does the the Progressive movement fit with the ideals of the American Dream?

11. The rise of Republicanism
Tasks:
Using the A3 handout, 3 pages in (labelled pages 2-5) answer the following:
What did Republican and Democrats stand for (definition)?
What were the similarities and differences between the three Republican presidents of the 1920s in terms of beliefs and backgrounds? In particular, what did Hoover epitomise?
What did Americans want from a Republican President?
How did the three Republican presidents of the 1920s differ in terms of their progressivism?
Challenge: Turn to page 23 (last few pages). Of the main features of the Republican ascendancy of the 1920s listed, which would you prioritise as most important. Rank and link them on your handout and justify in writing.

12. Quick quiz
What three arms are there to the Federal government?
Which two parties dominate American politics?
Why is there a separation of powers?
Who led the USA into WW1?
What did Americans want after WWI (Harding promise)?
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13. Quick quiz
What three arms are there to the Federal government? Legislative (Congress), Executive (President) and Judiciary (Supreme Court)
Which two parties dominate American politics? Republicans and Democrats
Why is there a separation of powers? To stop any one arm becoming too powerful
Who led the USA into WW1? Woodrow Wilson
What did Americans want after WWI (Harding promise)? Normalcy