Unit 8-Living History Interview Assignment

Interview questions and answers.





1)Question-Do you believe television has a positive or negative impact on the 1960 presidential debates and news coverage of the civil Right movement?



Grand Dad answer-I believe it had a negative effect,because whites thought they were being justified,and blacks thought they were being humiliated from all the crudity exposed on television.This made blacks & whites become more angry at each other.



2)Question-The impact of technology has come very successful within years.Can you describe the impact of technology on America Life,including development of computers,and cellulars phones?



Grand Dad answer-Computers has become very successful within years,because growing up during the 60's and 70's we didn't have any technology like computers.Computers to me have advanced the world ad cellular phones on American Life in the world.



3)Question-The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights of 1965 have a lot of consequences and causes,could you explain some?



Grand Dad answer-It was to give every legal citizen their equal rights granted to them,but the causes was a lot of lives were taken to obtain their rights of freedom.



4)Question-Lyndon Johnson's Great Society Program was to help people with education,Medicare,control and prevention of crime,and much more.Do you think this was a good effect on the U.S?



Grand Dad answer-To me,this program was an excellent effect on the U.S.This helped alot of people ,not just blacks.It made it easy for the elderly to get medicare during the old ages,and helped reduce the crime.



5)Question-What were you doing on the time the President John F.Kennedy was assassinated?



Grand Dad answer-I was in the 11Th grade at Madison Co High School eating lunch.The teachers had informed all the students and the whole school was in kaos.



6)Question-Did you participate in the first Earth Day in the 1970's,which was on April,22?



Grand Dad answer-No,on this Earth Day,I wasn't informed about this at the time.



7)Question-What were you when the terrorisim attack happened on September 2001?



Grand Dad answer-When the terrorism attack happened,I was on my job site doing construction in Atlanta,Ga.The boss had told all the employees about the situation and delayed work for the rest of the day.





8)Question-What do you think of George W.Bush's responses to the attacks of September 11,2001?



Grand Dad answer-To me,he made a quick and valid response,by sending troops to Afghanistan to go to war,for security for the United States.



9)Question-What do you think about the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision?



Grand Dad answer-Well,I don't believe in abortion ,its taking a life its killing.But every individual has a right to chose.



10)Question-What were your memories of the Brown v Board of Education decision and the efforts to desegregate in the south?



Grand Dad answer-I remember leaving my all colored school traveling to different schools.Had to get use to the environment of learning with whites.It gave blacks and chance to learn equal education and still had to go through allot of cruel ,and unfair judgment from society.

Unit 8- Guiding Question

Has the United States moved in a positive or negative direction since the 1940s? To the U.S. has moved to an positive direction,but their is still some negatives in the U.S. Their isn't much negativity as back in the 1940's but their is some.So I think it's moved in a more positive direction.

Unit 7- Boom Bust Recovery Pixz...

1-This is a picture Babe Ruth- was an American Major League baseball player from 1914–1935. He was famous playing baseball at this boom time.

2-This is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor. This made it easy to transport things in the boom time.

3-This is an event African American cultural and intellectual life during the 1920s and 1930s. Centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the movement influenced urban centers throughout the United States. This event was developed during this time period.

4-This association is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States. With the boom it was to ensure political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons.

5- Scope Trial was an American legal case that tested the Butler Act, and the boom which made it unlawful "to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible.

6-This picture is Sinclair Lewis, which was an American nova list, short story writer, and playwright. He became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

7- This picture is Bessie rock, which was an American blues singer, and she the most popular female singer with the 1920’s.

8-This dance was popular, and it gets its name for the city of Charleston, South Carolina. Became a popular dance craze in the wider international community in the 1920s

9- This is an American writer and journalist, named Ernest Hemingway. During his lifetime he wrote and had published seven novels; six collections of short stories; and two works of non-fiction.

10-This guy, named Louis Armstrong, an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana.He was a very influential on jazz in the 1920’s.

1-This Herbert Hoover guy was the 31st President of the United States (1929–1933). Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author. Within WW1 he helped thousands of Americans from Europe.

2- The stock market public market for the trading of company stock and derivatives at an agreed price; these are securities listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately, and it was very familiar within the Bust time.

3-The Black Tuesday was a huge shock and the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout.

4-This is a Great Depression that was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. This Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s and was much known within the Bust time.

5-This Dust Bowl was brutal, of Dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands.

6- The Grapes of Wrath a novel published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, and was set during the Great Depression time taken place within the Bust time period.

7-These Shanty towns was made from scrap materials: often plywood, corrugated metal, and sheets of plastic. These houses were used within the Bust time also.

8-Within the Bust this was called the Soup Kitchen a period their was a place where food is offered to the hungry for free or at a reasonably low price. Frequently located in lower-income neighborhoods

9- This called Price Support intended effect of keeping the market price of a good higher than the competitive equilibrium level.

10-This is a financial action called Speculation that does not promise safety of the initial investment along with the return on the principal sum, and with the Bust time, it involves the lending of money or the purchase of assets, equity or debt.

1-This was a huge part of the Recovery-the New Deal which was to his complex package of economic programs, and promoting Recovery of the economy during the Great Depression.

2-This covers, Tennessee, Kentucky, parts of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small slices of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. It is called the TVA. It provide navigation flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development

3- This was called AAA- Agricultural Adjustment Act, which has for restricted agricultural production in the New Deal era by paying farmers to reduce crop area. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus so as to effectively raise the value of crop, and it was a Recovery.

4-This is something that everyone in the United States has. A Social Security act, which is really identified for people, and their personals, it was from 1935 within the Recovery time period of the Boom Bust Recovery.

5- National Youth Administration (NYA) was a New Deal from the U.S. It was really for work programming for kids and their family’s during the Recovery time.

6- Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945.She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and this was a big factor in the recovery time.

7- This Works Progress Administration was the largest New Deal agency, employing millions to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads, and operated large arts, drama, media and literacy projects.

8-This is called the Glass-Steagall Act-which was a law that established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in the United States and introduced banking reforms, some of which were designed to control speculation.

9-This is a picture Franklin Roosevelt he was the husband of Eleanor Roosevelt, and it as the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a recovery time of worldwide economic crisis and world war.

10-This picture symbolizes the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933.It was to regulate and permit cartels and monopolies to stimulate economic recovery, and it established a national public works program.

All together.Boom,Bust, and Recovery Project.

Unit 7-Assignment 1-Life Changing Events

Yes,to me people only change after something bad happens.If people see the problem,they should do something that will stop it before something bad happens.Ex: If an president sees an terrorist saying threats about his country,he should do something to stop that threat unless it comes real or unless something bad happens.

Unit 6.Assignment 6-Should the United States Get Involved in Other Countries Affairs?

To me,no I don't think the U.S. should get involved in other countries affairs.By getting involved with other countries it will be bad for the U.S. because an war or anything could start. This would be noisiness with other countries getting in thee problems,and this is how conflicts happen.Ex: of something that the U.S. got involved in was the Canal with the British.They agreed to share the rights,but no conflicts.Another Ex; is that I think is that the president Bush was involved with the Oil in Pakistan or Afghanistan and it supposedly caused the War on Terror today because Bush wanted to take over their oil or something.so to me that's why I think the U.S. shouldn't get involved with other countries affairs.

Unit 6-Assignment 1: Preview Reflection Blog Post: When to Get Involved?

Is it ok to get involved on other people's business? -To me I think it isn't ok to get involved on there people's business,because that their own business,and they can take care of it their own way. No,I haven't ever jumped into someones business,because I've never wanted to get involved with their problems..To me the only time its necessary to get involved into someone business is when its about your family or your child or something..People should mind their own business when the situations that they are in,doesn't concerned them.

Assignment 5: The Gilded Age- Acrostic Definition Post

G-rowth
I-ndustrial
L-abor
D-estiny
E-xtravagant
D-erived

A-merican
G-overnment
E-xpansion