Happy Thanksgiving!

Enjoy a break with no history homework!  See you Tuesday!

The Mexican Revolution

Read pages 211 through 216 about the Mexican Revolution.  Answer the following questions:

1) What was the "Porfiriato"?
2) How long had Porfirio Diaz been president?
3) Give two reasons why many Mexicans were discontented with Diaz's government.
4) Why did poor Mexicans resent the rich Mexicans who owned large farms?
5) What kind of government did Francisco Madero want Mexico to have?
6) How did Porfirio Diaz react when he saw how popular Francisco Medero had become?
7) Where did Madero go when he escaped?
8) What happened to Porfirio Diaz after the Mexican Revolution began?
9) What problem did Francisco Madero face when he became president?
10) When rebellion broke out against Madero, what was he forced to do?
11) What did Madero's enemies do in February, 1913?
12) What do we call the ten days when Madero and his enemies fought in Mexico City?
13) When Victoriano Huerta took over, what happened to President Madero?
14) How lond did Victoriano Huerta rule/
15) Did the Mexican Revolution bring peace?

Reviewing US History

Create a timeline of the important events and people found in chapters 5, 8 (part 1), 15 (part2) and 16 that relate to the history of the United States.  Review the pages of the text on parts less familiar to you.  These sections and chapters will be the basis for a classroom game on Tuesday, so get ready!

China, Vietnam - and France

Answer the following questions for both sections of chapter 19.  Finish reading the chapter, pages 208-209.

For the chapter test, be able to explain the Three Principles of the Chinese republic.  Also, you should know the order of events of Phan Boi Chau's life and efforts.  Knowing the answers to the following questions will also make you ready to do well on the test.

1) List three of the five reasons why China was unhappy.
2) Who ruled the country for Puyi?
3) What three countries did these noblemen have to obey?
4) Why did the Sichuan officials refuse to hand their railroad over to the Qing government?
5) What kind of government did the Sichuan officials hope to set up instead?
6) What was the profession of Sun Yixian, the new president of the republic?
7) What is another name for Sun Yixian's party, the Kuomintang?
8) What were the Three Principles of the Party?
9) What happened to Puyi when the Nationalist Party took over?
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1) Why was the peninsula south of China called "Indochina"?
2) What are the modern names for the three countries on the east side of Indochina?
3) What were Tonkin, Annam, and Cochin China?
4) How did the French make money in Vietnam?
5) Why did Phan Boi Chau refuse to take a job in the Vietnamese government?
6) What was the Restoration Society?
7) After Phan Boi Chau fled to Japan, how did he fight the French?
8) How did Japan react?
9) Where did Phan Boi Chau go?
10) Why did Phan Boi Chau begin to grow discouraged and sugges the Vietnamese could get along with the French?
11) What happened to Phan Boi Chau in Shanghai?
12) How did Phan Boi Chau help the cause of Vietnamese independence?

The Balkan Mess

Read pages 196 through 201.  The outline (student page 70) is a list of the countries on or near the Balkan Peninsula with their ruling powers both before and after the war of 1878.

Complete the map, Student Page 72.  The directions for it are found on the handout page 78.  Take your time to read the instructions for completing this more detailed map.  Think about the significance of what had occurred to each of the countries that you label.

China's Troubles

Wednesday:  Read "The Boxer Rebellion."  Answer the following questions for this lesson:

1) What four countries were trying to take control of parts of China?
2) Why did the Boxer society form?
3) What two unusual things did the Boxers believe?
4) Why did the Boxers attack Chinese Christians?
5) Did the emperor support the Boxer attacks?
6) What did the emperor do that made his people nervous?
7) Who took over the government?
8) Why did foreigners flee to Beijing?
9) Soldiers came from what three countries to fight the Boxers/
10) What happened when the Boxers went out to meet the soldiers/
11) List three things that Chinese officials promised to do, after the Boxer Rebellion.
12) List two things that Cixi agreed to do.

Complete Student Page 68 using the instructions on handout page 73 under "Map Work."
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Thursday: Read "The Czar and the Admiral."  Answer the following questions:

1) What two countries became enemies after the Boxer Rebellion?
2) What did Russia rent from China?
3) What country did Russia then decide to seize?
4) Why wasn't the Russian government worried about Japan?
5) What did the Japanese do on February 4, 1904?
6) Why did they decide to attack first?
7) What were the Russian forces at Port Arthur forced to do?
8) What was the final defeat for Russia?
9)Who helped to arrange a peace treaty between Japan and Russia?
10) List two things that Russia had to give Japan.

Complete Student Page 69 using the instructions on handout page 74 under "Map Work."

Moving West!

Read pages 169-173, "Moving West."  Answer the following questions:

1) What was the name of the wagon route west?
2) What happened when sixty thousand people settled in a particular territory?
3) After Texas, what were the first and last western territories to become states?
4)What is a reservation?
5) What battle did Crazy Horse fight with the American commander George Custer?
6) What is the Apache chief Geronimo remembered for?
7) What animal began to disappear with the building of railroads?