Monday, October 31, 2011

Chapter 13-4

Gary Powers
Ike Eisenhowser
More Bang for the Buck
Massive retaliation
Sputnik
NDEA
Brinksmanship
End of Korean War
Taiwan
Suez Canal
-As an example of world politics
Containmment
Mohhammed Mossadegh
United Fruit Company
Kruschev
Kruschev's speech and Hungary
Gary Powers
Military-Industrial Complex

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Chapter 3-3

1. What are the main ideas of Section 3.
2. Where were immigrants in US from by 1900?
3. Why did they come?
4. What is steerage?
5. Ellis Island?
6. Where did immigrants settle
7. Why did Chinese move to US in mid 1800’s?
8. Angel Island?
9. Nativism?
10. Chinese Exclusion act?
11. Upward mobility?
12. Urbanization:
13. Skyscrapers?
14. Trains?
15. Rich vs Poor
16. Tenement
17. Political Machine
18. Graft
19. Tweed
20. Thomas Nast

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Turn of the century

News magazine


Turn of the Century.
Groups of 2.
Make a News magazine.
Should be written around the year 1900.
Magazine must have:

Cover:
Table of Contents.
3-5Authentic Advertisements
3-5 Short articles with pictures
A Political Cartoon

Article Selections:
Panic of 1893 (Written from standpoint of 1900)
William McKinley
Rail travel in 1900
Inventions
National Parks in 1900
Aftermath of Spanish American War 1900
Gibson Girl
Francis Benjamin Johnston
PREVIEW of new, New York Subway
Vaudeville
Immigration in 1900
Fashion and Clothing 1900
Teddy Roosevelt in 1900
Boxer REbellion
Jim Crow South
Music
Galveston Hurricane
Pan-American Exhibition, Buffalo
1893 Chicago Columbian Exhibition - a retrospective
H.H. Holmes
Andrew Carnegie
Standard Oil
A Major invention

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Chapter 3 Section 1

1. What is the main idea of Chapter 3, section 1
2. Placer mining
3. Quartz mining
4. Comstock Lode
5. Boomtown
6. Crime and vigilance
7. Women
8. Pikes Peak
9. Leadville
10. Black hills
11. Great plains
12. Longhorn
13. Open range
14. Vacquero
15. Civil war (and cattle?)
16. RR (and cattle)
17. What was the long drive?
18. RR and opening up the west?
19. Rain follows the plow
20. Homestead Act
21. How was life on the Homestead?
22. Wheat Belt?
23. Life for Indians?
24. Indian Peace Commission
25. Sitting Bull
26. Chief Joseph
27. Ghost dance
28. Wounded Knee
29. Dawes Act
30. How well did Indians take to the Dawes act?

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Chapter 3-2

1. On Page 243: What are the 4 main ideas of the Chapter?
2. What turned the US into the world’s leading industrial nation?
3. Natural resources.
4. Petroleum
5. Population
6. Causes of Population growth
7. Entrepreneur
8. Laissez-faire
9. Inventions
10. Alexander Graham Bell
11. Thomas Alva Edison
12. Pacific Railway Act
13. Time Zones
14. What are the Benefits of Railroads
15. Rail road land grants
16. Robber Barron
17. Corporation
18. Andrew Carnegie
19. Vertical Integration
20. Horizontal integration
21. Monopoly
22. Standard Oil
23. Wages in factories
24. Factory Life
25. Union
26. Marxism
27. Union Goals
28. Lockout
29. Strike
30. AFL
31. Gompers
32. Women in the workforce.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Tuesday, October 4

Discuss Chapter 2-5. Reconstruction. (Lecture Part 1)
Homework Time: 10 min, finish studying Chapter 2-5.

Exploration and Adventure: A theme we will be exploring through the year, with video, and primary sources, and research. Today we'll start looking at the Greely expedition. We will watch the video over several days, and then discuss it. We will also look at primary sources.

Here is the link to the website.

Monday, October 3, 2011

US HISTORY

Monday Oct 3

p. 214
Explain chart on Casualties

Then Read
Chapter 2, Section 5 terms (p. 225, questions 1, 2, 3