Remember Take Home Test Question

Remember to include the following

1) Thesis Statement
2) Generalization or claims that back up your thesis
3-4) Specifics that back up your generalizations or claims
5) Historical Causation 
6) Conclusion 






6.1 Students will be able to analysis and discuss how the rise of big business in the United States encouraged massive migrations and urbanization, sparked government and popular efforts to reshape the U.S. economy and environment, and renewed debates over U.S. national identity.

Monday

Today we are going to go over chapter 24 and create quizlets (please don't just find a quizlet and adopt it).

For those of you who will be gone this week you need to answer questions 23 -33.

The Urban Frontier

Know:    Louis Sullivan, Walking Cities, Department Stores, Tenements

23.        What factors led to the growth of cities in the second half of the 1800's?

The New Immigration

24.        How were the new immigrants different from the old immigrants?

Southern Europe Uprooted

25.        Why did the new immigrants come to America in such large numbers?

Makers of America: The Italians

Know:    Birds of Passage, padrone

26.        How did Italian immigrants live their lives in America?

Reactions to the New Immigration

Know:    Political Bosses, Social Gospel, Jane Addams, Hull House, Settlement houses, Lillian Wald, Florence Kelley

27.        How did political bosses help immigrants?

Narrowing the Welcome Mat

Know:    Nativists, Anglo-Saxon, American Protective Association, Statue of Liberty 

28.        In 1886, what was ironic about the words inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty?

Churches Confront the Urban Challenge

Know:    Dwight Lyman Moody, Cardinal Gibbons, Salvation Army, Mary Baker Eddy, YMCA 

29.        What role did religion play in helping the urban poor?

Darwin Disrupts the Churches

Know:    Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species, Fundamentalists, Modernists, Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll,

30.        What effect did the theory of evolution have on Christian churches?

The Lust for Learning

Know:    Normal Schools, Kindergarten, Chautauqua

31.        What advances took place in education in the years following the Civil War?

Booker T. Washington and Education for Black People

Know:    Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, Accomodationist, George Washington Carver, W.E.B. Du Bois, NAACP 

32.        Explain the differences in belief between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois.

The Hallowed Halls of Ivy

Know:    Vassar, Howard, Morrill Act, Land Grant Colleges, Hatch Act

33.        What factors allowed the number of college students to dramatically increase?

The March of the Mind

Know:    William James

34.        Describe some of the intellectual achievements of the late 1800’s.

The Appeal of the Press

Know:    Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, Yellow Journalism

35.        How did the ability to produce newspapers inexpensively change their content?

Apostles of Reform

Know:    Edwin L. Godkin, Henry George, Edward Bellamy 

36.        How did writers in the 1870's and 1880's try to address the problems of their time?

Postwar Writing

Know:    Dime novels, Horatio Alger, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson 

37.        Did the trends in writing after the Civil War make it a good period for literature? Explain.

Literary Landmarks

Know:    Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, William Dean Howells, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Jack London, Frank Norris, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Charles W. Chestnut, Theodore Dreiser. 

38.        What did many writers in the late 1800's have in common?

The New Morality

Know:    Victoria Woodhull, Anthony Comstock

39.        What evidence demonstrated a battle raging over sexual morality?

Families and Women in the City

Know:    Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, National Women Suffrage Association, Ida B. Wells

40.        What changes were occurring in the women's rights movement?

Prohibition of Alcohol and Social Progress

Know:    Women's Christian Temperance Union, Carrie Nation, Anti-Saloon League, 18th Amendment, Clara Barton

41.        What social causes were women (and many men) involved in the late 1800's?

Artistic Triumphs

Know:    James Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, George Inness, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Metropolitan Opera House, Henry H. Richardson, Columbian Exposition 

42.        Why is this section titled "artistic triumphs?"

The Business of Amusement

Know:    Vaudeville, P.T. Barnum, Buffalo Bill Cody, Annie Oakley, James Naismith

43.        What forms of recreation became popular from 1870 to 1900?

Friday

So today we are going to view your projects on chapter 24.  Remember, I expect that you should be able to answer the study questions at the end of each presentation.  If you can't, I will have to quiz you on those questions in the near future.

We will start with Alex's questions. 

Chapter 24 Project Groups

Presentations on THURSDAY

Group 1 (Colton and Alex):  Iron Colt – Iron Horse; Spanning the Rails.

Group 2 (Mocha and Hailey): Railroad Consolidation; Revolution by Rails; Wrongdoing in Railroading

Group 3 (twins, Dainean): Government bridles the Iron Horse; Miracle of Mechanization; Trust Titan

Group 4 (Denver and Steaven): Supremacy of Steel; Carnegie, Rockefeller

Group 5: (Sienna and Kristal)

The Gospel of Wealth; Government Tackling the Trust Evil, Southern Industry

Group 6: (Justin, Zach and Kota)

Impact of the New Industrial Revolution; In Unions there is Strength

PROJECTS NEED THE FOLLOWING:

You will be allowed to choose either ComicLife or a Video and you'll have to outline the Key points/ideas/events.

Your video can contain a series of pictures with voice overs. 

You will need to include 5 study questions for your section.  

Review - and Chapter 24

So today we are going to review Chapter 23 and then move onto Chapter 24.  We will be moving quickly through this Unit - and will probably be done with it by the end of next week.  The test will be a take home test at the end of next week for everyone but Denver. 

Here is the test question:


6.1 Students will be able to analysis and discuss how the rise of big business in the United States encouraged massive migrations and urbanization, sparked government and popular efforts to reshape the U.S. economy and environment, and renewed debates over U.S. national identity.

Homework tonight - create a quizlet for Terms to know at the end of Chapter 23.


Quiz tomorrow - make sure you know: The Compromise of 1877 and the Election of 1876.


At the end of class today, I will break you up into groups of two and assign you sections of chapter 24.  You will need to do one of the following an present the information:



You will be allowed to choose either ComicLife or a Video and you'll have to outline the Key points/ideas/events.

Your video can contain a series of pictures with voice overs. 


You will need to include 5 study questions for your section. 

Unit 6

Unit 6: 1865-1898 – The American Pageant, Chapters 23-28.

Content: The transformation of the United States from an agricultural to an increasingly industrialized and urbanized society brought about significant economic, political, diplomatic, social, environmental, and cultural change.  Includes: Rise of labor unions and the Populist Party; general themes of industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and imperialism; Indian Wars, the Spanish American War, conquests in the Pacific.

Key Concepts:

6.1 The rise of big business in the United States encouraged massive migrations and urbanization, sparked government and popular efforts to reshape the U.S. economy and environment, and renewed debates over U.S. national identity.

6.2 The rise of big business and an industrial culture in the United States led to both greater opportunities for and restrictions on immigrants, minorities, and women.

6.3 The “Gilded Age” witnessed new cultural and intellectual movements in tandem with political debates over economic and social policies.

Activities:

History Log – notes and short answers on reading assignments.

Primary Source Analysis: Red Cloud’s Speech, Excerpts from Huck Finn, Dawes Act, Chinese Exclusion Act, A Black Woman’s Appeal for Civil Rights, Populist Party Platform, Bosses of the Senate Cartoon, Images from How the Other Half Lives, Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth, Petition to the Ohio state legislature against women suffrage, Jane Addams Twenty Years at Hull House, map of the overseas possessions of the U.S.

Viewpoints: After reading excerpts from Jane Addams, Louise de Koven Bowen and Hilda Satt Polacheck students will decide if the progressive social reformers were generous and helpful or condescending and judgmental towards immigrants.  Students will list 3 main points and evidence the support.

Populist Party Speech – Students will analyze documents on the Populist Party and create a speech on why they should be the Populist Party Presidential nominee in 1892.

Unit Test – Multiple-choice questions, short answer questions, DBQ, and Long Essay.

During this unit students will discuss possible answers to the following essential questions:

Identity: How did the rapid influx of immigrants from other parts of the world than northern and western Europe affect debates about American national identity?

Work, Exchange, and Technology: How did technological and corporate innovations help to vastly increase industrial production?  What was the impact of these innovations on the lives of working people?

Peopling: How and why did the sources of migration to the United States change dramatically during this period?

Politics and Power: How did the political culture of the Gilded Age reflect the emergence of new corporate power?  How successful were the challenges to this power?  Why did challenges to this power fail?

America in the World: How did the search for new global markets affect American foreign policy and territorial ambitions?

Environment and Geography: In what ways, and to what extent, was the West “opened” for further settlement through connection to eastern political, financial, and transportation systems?

Ideas, Beliefs and Cultures: How did artistic and intellectual movements both reflect and challenge the emerging corporate order?

 Go here for Unit overview of Unit 6

Chapter 23

1) Why did Grant win the election of 1868?
2) What was the "bloody shirt" following the Civil War?
3) Who was Boss Tweed?  What happened to him?
4) What was the Credit Mobilier scandal?
5) Describe the events in the election of 1872?
6) What was the major cause of the Panic of 1873?
7) What was the major problem in the election of 1876?
8) What was the Compromise of 1877?
9) What was the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson?
10) By the end of Reconstruction, what means were used to disenfranchise African-Americans?
11) What were the Jim Crow laws?
12) Why was Garfield assassinated?
13) What were the major issues of the Cleveland era?

We will continue review

 UNIT GOAL:  Students will be able to analyze how the United States -- intensified by expansion and deepening regional divisions, debates over slavery and other economic, cultural and political issues -- led the nation into civil war.

For Gilder Lehrman go HERE