Kresge’s Kast

Civil Rights

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:55:44 -0500

Included in this episode on the Civil Rights are:
    * Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
    * Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
    * Rosa Parks
    * Montgomery Bus Boycott
    * Malcolm X
    * Black Panthers
    * Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka (1954)
    * Little Rock Nine
    * Affirmative Action

Cold War

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:52:15 -0500

Included in this episode are the following:
    * Reasons for the Cold War
    * Satellite Nations
    * Containment
    * Senator Joseph McCarthy
    * Berlin Airlift
    * Korean War
    * Berlin Wall
    * Cuban Missile Crisis
    * Vietnam War

World War II

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:49:11 -0500

Included in this episode are:
   * Lend-Lease Act
    * Pearl Harbor
    * Axis Powers (Germany and Japan)
    * Allies (Great Britain, U.S., U.S.S.R)
    * Rationing
    * Victory Gardens
    * Japanese-American Internment
    * D-Day
    * Atomic Bombs
    * Nuremberg Trials
    * Causes of WWII
    * The Holocaust

Great Depression

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:45:11 -0500

This episode includes the following:
    * Causes of the Great Depression
            1) Buying on Credit (Margin)
            2) Overproduction
            3) Lack of Government Action
    * Hoovervilles
    * Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal
            1) Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
            2) Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
            3) Social Security Administration

Roaring 20s

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:42:47 -0500

Included in this episode are:
    * 18th Amendment (Prohibition)
    * Speakeasies
    * Jazz
    * Harlem Renaissance
    * Langston Hughes (Poetry)
    * Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith (Jazz)
    * W.E.B. Du Bois (Philosophy)
    * Assembly Line
    * Increase in Exports

World War I

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:39:44 -0500

Included in this episode are:
    * The Causes of World War I
            1) Nationalism
            2) Imperialism
            3) Militarism
            4) Secret Alliances
            5) Shooting of the ArchDuke Franz Ferdinand
    * Sinking of the Lusitania
    * The Zimmerman Telegram
    * World War I Technology
    * Trench Warfare
    * Woodrow Wilson’s “14 Points”
    * The League of Nations

Imperialism

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:38:04 -0500

Included in this podcast is:
    * Imperialism vs. Isolationism
    * U.S. Purchase of Alaska
    * U.S. Gains Control of Hawaii
    * Commodore Perry and Japan
    * Spheres of Influence
    * The Boxer Rebellion
    * Open Door Policy with China
    * Yellow Journalism and the Sinking of the USS Maine
    * Spanish-American War

Immigration and Industrialization

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:34:11 -0500

Included in this podcast are:
    * The Height of U.S. Immigration
    * “New Immigrants” vs. “Old Immigrants”
    * Chinese Exclusion Act
    * Nativists
    * Tenements
    * Gilded Age
    * Trusts and Corporations
    * Economics and the Law of Supply and Demand

Reconstruction and Westward Expansion

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:55:12 -0500

This podcast covers the following information:
    * The Reconstruction Period in the US
    * Jim Crow Laws
    * The rise of the KKK
    * Radical Republicans
    * Plessy v. Ferguson (1894)
    * The Transcontinental Railroad

Civil War

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:45:39 -0500

The United States Civil War occurred in 160 - 1865. The Union (North) fought the Confederacy (South). Six major causes of the war were:
    1) Sectionalism
    2) State’s Rights
    3) Slavery
    4) Literature such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin
    5) The Abolition Movement
    6) The Election of 1860

Early Presidents

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:36:43 -0500

Included in this podcast are:
    1) George Washington as precedent President
    2) Isolationism
    3) The Louisiana Purchase
    4) The Lewis and Clark Expedition
    5) Andrew Jackson as President
    6) The Trail of Tears
    7) The first Industrial Revolution
    8) Manifest Destiny
    9) The Annexation of Texas
    10) The Seneca Falls Convention
    11) The Gold Rush

U.S. Constitution and Government

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:26:56 -0500

This podcast contains information pertaining to the United States Constitution and government including:
    1) The Articles of Confederation
    2) The three branches
    3) Shays’ Rebellion
    4) Large State Plan vs. Small State Plan
    5) The Great Compromise
    6) The 3/5’s Compromise
    7) Checks and Balances
    8) Bill of Rights

American Revoution

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:20:54 -0500

This podcast reviews the French and Indian War and causes of the American Revoution:
    1) The Proclamation of 1763
    2) “No Taxation without Represenation”
    3) Navigation Acts
    4) Boycott of British goods
    5) Stamp Act
    6) Townshend Acts
    7) Tea Act
Addressed as well are strengths and advantages of both the Patriots and the British.

13 English Colonies

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:11:50 -0500

Included in this podcast is:
    1) Mercantilism
    2) New England
    3) The Middle Colonies
    4) The Southern Colonies

Native American Cultures, Exploration, and Colonization

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:07:47 -0500

Covered in this podcast are the topics of:
    1) Native American Cultures of both North and South
            America
    2) Reasons for exploration
    3) The Columbian Exchange
    4) Spanish Colonies in Central and South America
    5) New France
    6) New Netherlands

The cartoon above by Karsten Shaley can be found at
http://69.28.73.17/issue5/geography.jpg