Newspaper Topics and Study Guide: The Wall Street Journal
Newspaper Topics and Study Guide for Ch. 26-28 Test
Ch. 26 (White) Ch.28 (red)
Suggested Title: The Wall Street Journal or The London Times
Topics to be covered: advancements in shipping, “annihilation of time and space,” effects of chemical dye industry on India, the boom bust cycle of world trade, Britain’s control of world finances by 1900, and improvements in cities.
Suggested editorials: written by a textile worker in India, a mayor of a city praising improvements in his city.
Suggested Title: Ladies Home Journal
Topics to be covered: Victorian morality, “separate spheres” of men and women, the middle class and servants, women and teaching, women and reform movements, Emma Goldman
Suggested editorials: a woman seeking to ban alcohol, or prostitution, one from Emma Goldman
Suggested Title: Le Munde or the Parisian Post
Topics to be covered: labor union movement, workers and the political system, socialism and Karl Marx, nationalism and the realignment of borders, Bismark’s plan to unite Germany, problems in Britain, why nationalism failed in Austria and Russia, Tsar Alexander II
Suggested editorials: one from Karl Marx and one from Bismark or Tsar Alexander II
Suggested Title: The Tokyo Times
Topics to be covered: loss of Russians in Russo-Japanese war, “self-strengthening movement” in China, Tokugawa Japan (role of shoguns, closing to foreigners, commodore Perry) Meiji Japan (reforms, imitation of the West, Meiji Oligarchs, Aritomo’s plan for imperialism, the Boxer Uprising
Suggested editorials: one from Aritomo, one from Commodore Perry or a Chinese citizen regarding the “self strengthening movement” or Boxer Uprising
Ch. 27 (white) 29 (red)
Suggested Title: The Imperialist Post
Topics to be covered: New Imperialism (land grab, French motivation, role of colonial officers in claiming territory, cultural motives, western superiority, economic motives, role of technological innovations) Battle of Omdurman
Ch. 26 (White) Ch.28 (red)
Suggested Title: The Wall Street Journal or The London Times
Topics to be covered: advancements in shipping, “annihilation of time and space,” effects of chemical dye industry on India, the boom bust cycle of world trade, Britain’s control of world finances by 1900, and improvements in cities.
Suggested editorials: written by a textile worker in India, a mayor of a city praising improvements in his city.
Suggested Title: Ladies Home Journal
Topics to be covered: Victorian morality, “separate spheres” of men and women, the middle class and servants, women and teaching, women and reform movements, Emma Goldman
Suggested editorials: a woman seeking to ban alcohol, or prostitution, one from Emma Goldman
Suggested Title: Le Munde or the Parisian Post
Topics to be covered: labor union movement, workers and the political system, socialism and Karl Marx, nationalism and the realignment of borders, Bismark’s plan to unite Germany, problems in Britain, why nationalism failed in Austria and Russia, Tsar Alexander II
Suggested editorials: one from Karl Marx and one from Bismark or Tsar Alexander II
Suggested Title: The Tokyo Times
Topics to be covered: loss of Russians in Russo-Japanese war, “self-strengthening movement” in China, Tokugawa Japan (role of shoguns, closing to foreigners, commodore Perry) Meiji Japan (reforms, imitation of the West, Meiji Oligarchs, Aritomo’s plan for imperialism, the Boxer Uprising
Suggested editorials: one from Aritomo, one from Commodore Perry or a Chinese citizen regarding the “self strengthening movement” or Boxer Uprising
Ch. 27 (white) 29 (red)
Suggested Title: The Imperialist Post
Topics to be covered: New Imperialism (land grab, French motivation, role of colonial officers in claiming territory, cultural motives, western superiority, economic motives, role of technological innovations) Battle of Omdurman