Wednesday 10/23/19


OBJECTIVES
  1. Compare the ways Native Americans and white settlers viewed and used the land.
  2. Analyze the impact of the Indian Wars.
  3. Evaluate the effectiveness of the government’s Americanization and reservation policies towards American Indians.
AGENDA
  1. PPT 2.1
  2. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

HOMEWORK
2.1 Study Guide due Friday

Friday October 18, 2019

We reviewed for our assessment on Monday.

Don't forget to study this weekend!

Study Guide for Topic 1



  • Americanization Movement
  • Vertical & Horizontal integration
  • Captain of Industry vs. Robber Baron
  • Chinese Exclusion Act
    • What did it enforce?
    • Effects?
  • Company Towns / Wage Slavery - How did they work?
  • Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
  • Mary Harris (“Mother”) Jones
  • Immigrant Process
    • Steerage
    • Ellis Island/Angel Island
    • How were they treated? Who got in? Who got sent back?
  • Horatio Alger
  • Haymarket Square Riot
  • Jacob Riis - How the Other Half Lives
  • John Wanamaker
  • Labor Unions:
    • Knights of Labor
    • American Federation of Labor
    • Leaders?
    • Similarities/Differences?
  • Nativism
  • Protective tariffs - How do they help American business? How can they be harmful to American business?
  • Pullman Strike (1894) - Outcome & Long-term impact?
  • “Push” and “Pull” factors leading immigrants to the United States. What were “chain” immigrants?
  • Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) - What was it designed to do? Was it effective?
  • Social Darwinism
  • Tin Pan Alley - Why was it important to the music industry?
  • Zoning Laws

Monday 10/14/19

Agenda:
- warm up 21
-Questions about 1.5?
-Discuss schedule
-1.6 PPT
-work time for 1.5/1.6

Unit test on Topic One is Monday 10/21/19

Friday 10/11/19

Agenda:
review 1.4
discuss 1.5
Jacob Riis photograph analysis (this is in class/a paper copy)

Homework: Read 1.5, take notes, complete the vocabulary.

Have a nice weekend.

Wednesday 10/9/19

Today we:
reviewed 1.3
discussed 1.4
analyzed political cartoons (if you were absent, stop by to pick this up)
Homework: Finish 1.4 in the study guide.

Monday 10/7/19


OBJECTIVES
  1. Assess the impact of business practices on workers in the late 1800s. Compare the goals and strategies of the first labor unions. Analyze the causes and effects of strikes in the late 1800s
AGENDA
  1. Warm Up
  2. Powerpoint 1.3
  3. Do “Study Guide” questions for 1.3 and begin reading 1.4
HOMEWORK
  1. Read/Vocabulary/Notes for 1.4