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Did the New Deal work?

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Write five paragraphs on whether the New Deal worked. Use three outside sources.

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Did the New Deal work?

Document-based essay

Did the New Deal restore Americans’ confidence by 1935? Argue from the packet and Tuesday’s class discussion.

Source packet

1 Hoover’s campaign speech, 1932
2 Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address, 1933
3 Schechter Poultry v. United States, 1935

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In class Draft your thesis and talk it through with me.

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10th-grade U.S. History

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Warm-up: The Great Migration

Between 1916 and 1970, about six million Black Americans left the South. Why did they go?

Word bank migrationsegregationfactory jobs

1. What pushed people out of the South?
2. What pulled them north?

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Read the question aloud.
Partners talk before anyone writes.
Call on two pairs; listen for push and pull.

Name ______________

Warm-up: The Great Migration

Between 1916 and 1970, about six million Black Americans left the South. Why did they go?

Word bank

migration segregation Jim Crow laws factory jobs opportunity

Sentence starters

People left the South because … In the North, they hoped to find …

1. What pushed people out of the South? Type your answer
2. What pulled them north? Type your answer

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March
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
1	2	3	4	5
8 Intro	9 Snow day	10 Markets	11 Demand	12 Supply Balance
15 Run a market	16	17 Project	18	19 Unit ends
22 Spring break	23	24	25	26

Moved a day Unit ends

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Primary Source Analysis: The Bosses of the Senate

Context

In the late 1800s, large corporations called trusts controlled major industries and gained enormous economic power. Many Americans believed wealthy business leaders used that power to influence lawmakers while ordinary citizens had little voice in government. Joseph Keppler published this political cartoon in Puck magazine in 1889 as Congress debated how to respond to monopolies.

Source

Joseph Keppler's political cartoon The Bosses of the Senate.

Artist: Joseph Keppler
Title: The Bosses of the Senate
Published: Puck, 1889

Observe

1. What do you see? Record several specific details without explaining what they mean yet.

a.

b.

c.

d.

2. What do you notice after looking more closely? Include any labels, repeated features, or surprising details.

Analyze

3. Choose one contrast in the cartoon. Describe both sides of the contrast, then explain what idea it may communicate.

4. How does Keppler use labels or symbols to shape the viewer’s understanding of the scene?

Argue

5. What is Keppler’s main argument about the relationship between big business, the Senate, and the American people? Support your answer with two details from the cartoon.

Keppler argues that

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The Erie Canal

The Erie Canal opened in 1825. It ran 363 miles across New York, from Albany on the Hudson River to Buffalo on Lake Erie.

Before the canal, goods crossed the state by wagon over rough roads. Canal boats, pulled by mules along a towpath, carried them faster and for far less.

Year	Event
1817	Digging begins
1825	The canal opens
1862	A wider canal is finished

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