APUSH

A warm welcome to all all my period 1 colloquium/seminar students and those in my period 3 class. This site is under construction, so for now all the links will take you back to gnassland. It is in its incipient stages of obsolescence.


 * Semester Two Novel Essay Questions**: Here are the questions that I ALREADY gave you a couple of months ago. These are the same questions that have been hanging on my walls all semester. Make sure that you DO NOT do the same question as someone else.


 * Cold War Notes**: Get your detailed summary of Cold War events here. (I've kindly compiled them for you!)[[file:Major Cold War Events.doc]]


 * Go to the APUSH Debates page for details on the Semester Two debates. I've posted useful link**s.

Define the terms: In general, conservatives believe in small government, voluntarism to solve problems(few gov't mandates), etc. Role of government is to maintain order and enforce contracts, etc. It is not there to ensure basic wellbeing. Don't want to limit business. Like a balanced budget, usually. Believe in equality of opportunity.
 * Study tips for tomorrow's DBQ**

In general, liberals believe in a larger government funded by higher (progressive)t taxes (more for the rich) whose responsibility is to take care of its citizens (eg welfare state) and ensure basic levels of wellbeing. Ok with limiting business. Believe in equality of opportunity and somewhat in the idea of equality of condition, but not too much because it's too radical.

Hoover is usually considered conservative, Roosevelt liberal. is this true?

Finally, and I forgot to mention this after school today, the word "liberal" used to be similar to our current meaning of conservative. IT can be confusing at times. If someone says they're an economic liberal, they main mean that they believe in free trade, small government, etc. Still this is something that not all conservatives and liberals agree with, so it's not exactly the same as either of the two terms above.

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