This timeline encompasses the major events of the Second World War between 1931 and 1945, such as Germany’s invasion of Poland and the Battle of Midway.
Category: Advanced U.S. History 9
America and WW1 – Art Project
This piece of artwork represents September 11th. I created a drawing of the Brooklyn Bridge and the New York skyline using pencil. During 9/11, transportation was shut down and thousands of people had to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge to leave New York, and many of them had no knowledge of what was going on. […]
An Era of Progress
The Progressive Era was the period of time in the U.S. where the ills of society were no longer pushed aside, and progress was finally made regarding working conditions, food and safety regulations, equal rights, and much more. Throughout the Progressive Era unit in my history class, I learned about the progressive amendments, the literature […]
Was J.P. Morgan a Captain of Industry or a Robber Baron?
In my History class, during our Industrial Revolution unit, my group members and I put the Industrialist J.P. Morgan on trial. J.P. Morgan was a financier, who combined companies to save them from bankruptcy. We set up a mock trial, with three witnesses, a prosecutor, and a defense attorney. The goal was […]
The Anti-Federalist Papers
In a recent project about the U.S. Founding Documents, my group and I created a presentation on the Anti-Federalist Papers. The Anti-Federalist Papers were the collective voice of the local and state politicians who disagreed with the ratification of the Constitution, the papers argued that a Bill of Rights needed to be added first. To […]