Due Week 3

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Due Week 3

• Read pages 129 - 147
• What is the role of the House of Lords?
• What is the role of the House of Commons?
• What are the major British political parties.
  Whose interests do they represent?
• I will collect these, but a mark will not be
  recorded.

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Due Week 4

• Read pages 341 - 357
• What are the major political parties in America,
  and how do their policies differ?
• Briefly describe the three branches of Federal
  government.
• How are the House of Representatives and the
  Senate elected?
• Answers will be collected and marked.

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Due 2003.3.24

• Read pages 59 - 69
• Which groups of people settled in Britain during
  its early history, and at approximately what
  time?
• Has the old Celtic language died?
• How did feudalism begin in Britain?
• Answers will not be collected.

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This weeks homework...

• Answers will be discussed in class next week.
• After that, answers will be collected. If the
  homework has been done, full marks will be given.
• Copied homework will be given zero.

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Due 2003.4.4

• Read pages 70 - 83
• Compare the feudal system of English between
  1066AD and 1368AD with the social system of China
  during that period.
• How was the power of Englands king reduced?
• Do you think that the justice system developed
  during the time of Henry II was an improvement
  over the old system?

Answers will be discussed in class, then
collected.
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Due week 7

• Read pages 84 - 97
• How were the ideas of the Renaissance different
  to the culture of the Middle Ages?
• When Henry VIII started the Church of England,
  were the English people willing or unwilling to
  belong to this new church?
• Why is Elizabeth Is reign said to be the
  beginning of the British Empire?

Answers will be discussed in class, but not
collected. (You can write answers in Chinese if
you prefer!)
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Due week 8

• Read pages 98 - 116
• Do you think it strange that the British republic
  lasted for only about 11 years?
• How did the Industrial Revolution in the 18th
  century affect peasant farmers and the upper
  class?
• The Peoples Charter of 1837 listed 6 points, but
  what was its overall aim?

Answers will be discussed in class, then
collected.
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Due week 9

• Read pages 117 - 128
• How was Englands colonisation of India different
  to the colonisation of America?
• How did the British Empire affect China?
• Did the two World Wars affect England positively
  or negatively?

Answers will be discussed in class, then
collected.
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Due week 10

• Read pages 239 - 257
• For what main reasons did people immigrate to
  America in the early years?
• Do you think America had good reason to start the
  War of Independence?
• Americas army seemed weaker than the British.
  How did it eventually win?

Answers will be discussed in class, then
collected.
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Due week 12

• Read pages 258 - 280
• Answer in your own words. Dont copy the book.
• What factors led to the development of the
  Federal Government? (2 or 3 sentences)
• In what ways did the size of the U.S.A. increase
  between 1800 and 1850? (about 3 sentences)
• What was life like for a frontiersman? (2 or 3
  sentences)

Answers will be discussed in class, then
collected.
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Homework marks

• Some great answers last week!
• 90 - some text copied from the textbook
• 80 - a lot of text copied from the textbook
• For the next assignment, these penalties will be
  greater.

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Due week 14

• Read pages 281 - 304
• Answer in your own words. Dont copy the book.
• What caused the 1862 Civil War? (2 sentences)
• How were the black slaves freed? Did they gain
  full equality afterwards? (2 or 3 sentences)
• What are some characteristics of Americas
  economic development after the war? (2 or 3
  sentences)

Answers will be discussed in class, then
collected.
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Due week 15

• Read pages 305 - 316
• Answer in your own words. Dont copy the book.
• Why did America enter World War 1?
  (2 or 3 sentences)
• How did President Roosevelt try to solve the
  economic problems of the Great Depression?
  (2 sentences)

Answers will be discussed in class, then
collected.
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Question 2 (due week 15)

• How did President Roosevelt try to solve the
  economic problems of the Great Depression?
  

Sentences from the book His first move was to
ask Congress to pass the Emergency Banking Act.
Another move was to enlarge employment and
increase consumption. The farmers problem was
dealt with by raising the price of farm
products. Of course every country wants more
employment and more economic activity! But how
did Roosevelt achieve it?
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Due week 16

• Read pages 317 - 327
• Answer in your own words. Dont copy the book.
• How was America involved in World War 2?
  (2 or 3 sentences)
• After the war, what was Americas role in
  international affairs? (2 or 3 sentences)

Answers will be discussed in class, then
collected.