Thursday, January 29, 2015
2nd Quarter Grades
Due to a computer error with PowerSchools, your child will receive a paper copy of their grade for the 2nd Quarter Grade and Semester 1 Grade on Monday February 2nd.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Interpreting Secondary Sources (and primary sources) - please post to your blog
Essays
1. What is the title of the document?
2. Who is the author?
3. What topic is the author addressing in this work?
4. What is the author's thesis?
5. Evidence that supports thesis?
6. What questions does this source/interpretation raise?
Primary Sources
1. What is the title of the document?
2. Who is the author?
3. What topic is the author addressing in this work?
4. What is the author's thesis?
5. Evidence that supports thesis?
6. What questions does this source/interpretation raise?
Primary Sources
In one clear, concise
sentence identify the main idea of the source.
Who is the intended audience?
What point of view is established by the
document and why the author might have that point of view?
What broader national or international events
or trends could this document be linked to?
What outside information
not mentioned in the documents does this document bring to mind?
Monday, January 26, 2015
What I need on your blog - Labor Unions/Philosophy of Industrialists/Urbanization
Labor Unions - Part C Summary Question
Philosophy of Industrialists - #10
Urbanizing America - Part B #8 and #9 (thesis does not (and should not??) be one sentence)
Philosophy of Industrialists - #10
Urbanizing America - Part B #8 and #9 (thesis does not (and should not??) be one sentence)
Friday, January 23, 2015
Gilded Age Videos
I have updated and added more links to the Gilded Age videos.
Stay tuned for:
American Culture
Gilded Age Politics Part 3 and 4
Stay tuned for:
American Culture
Gilded Age Politics Part 3 and 4
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Group Activities - post notes activity - alternate minor assignment. Please post to blog by Thursday Feb.5th.
*You will be graded on the following scale:
A+ = 101 (college level)
A = 96 (excellent work)
A = 93
B = 89 (good, room for improvement)
B- = 85 (decent)
C+ = 84
C = 81 (mediocre)
C- = 78
D = 74 (danger zone)
failed to meet guidelines = 65
0 - did not turn in assignments/assig)nments incomplete
Labor Unions:
Research the following:
Great RailRoad Strike of 1877 (http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h717.html)
Haymarket Riot 1886 (http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h750.html)
Homestead Strike 1892 (http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h769.html)
Pullman Strike of 1894 (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/483131/Pullman-Strike)
Your group will create a one pager (4 total) that depicts the event from a pro-union or anti-union stance. Your 1 pager should include cause(s) of the strike as well as the results. Please post each 1 -pager to your blog with a short caption.
Philosophy of the Industrialists:
1. Create a writing prompt/essay question for your documents. Provide a thesis and an outline. Please post to your blog.
Urbanizing America
1. find and post (to your blog) a recent article that discusses a current issue dealing within America's cities. You will need to: a)state main idea of the article b)outline supporting information c)Compare and Contrast to the rise of urbanization and immigration during the Gilded Age
In class discussion: warm up
Please posts answer to your blog:
Was the "New South" more a slogan than a reality? What specific facts should be looked at to support either point of view?
Was the "New South" more a slogan than a reality? What specific facts should be looked at to support either point of view?
Reflection Questions - Gilded Age videos Due by Monday Morning 2/2
Please post your responses on your blogs. Answers should include SFI, analysis, and an overall understanding of the content. You will be graded based on completion and tested later on the materials. You are welcomed to consult the textbook as well!
1. What were the causes and political results of the rise of agrarian protests in the 1890s?
2. What was the impact of the transcontinental rail system on the American economy and society in the late nineteenth century?
3. How did the industrial trusts develop in industries such as steel and oil, and what was their effect on the economy?
4. What early efforts were made to control the new corporate industrial giants, and how effective were these efforts?
5. What new opportunities did the cities create for Americans?
6. What new social problems did urbanization create? How did Americans respond to these problems?
7. How did the "New Immigration" differ from the "Old Immigration", and how did Americans respond to it?
1. What were the causes and political results of the rise of agrarian protests in the 1890s?
2. What was the impact of the transcontinental rail system on the American economy and society in the late nineteenth century?
3. How did the industrial trusts develop in industries such as steel and oil, and what was their effect on the economy?
4. What early efforts were made to control the new corporate industrial giants, and how effective were these efforts?
5. What new opportunities did the cities create for Americans?
6. What new social problems did urbanization create? How did Americans respond to these problems?
7. How did the "New Immigration" differ from the "Old Immigration", and how did Americans respond to it?
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
YouTube Troubles...
I am currently having trouble with YouTube. I will attempt to post the videos tomorrow morning to conclude our talks on Industry/Politics/Urbanization.
The New South
begin the reading the handout on the "New South"
Focus your notes / reading around the following headings:
- Economic Diversification
Focus your notes / reading around the following headings:
- Economic Diversification
- Political Changes
- Race Relations in the New South
- Compromise of 1877
For each of the headings please do the following:
- Describe the main idea(s) of each section
= outline the main support for these ideas
In other words, focus on outlining the handout on the New South into easy to understand chunks so it is easy to recall this information later. Since you will need to study for the test on the Gilded Age/The West - outline now to make it easier later.
of Blacks in America…”
Minister Louis Farrakhan spoke the above words, Feb. 27, in Rosemont,
Illinois at the conclusion of the Nation of Islam’s annual Saviours’ Day
convention. His address was nearly 4 hours long but the below excerpt
contains his full comments made about the far-reaching impact of this
not-often referenced or remembered part of American history.
…I want to show you how we have been tricked. There was a great compromise of 1877.
It’s called “The Great Betrayal of the Negro.” In 1865, the 13th amendment legally
abolished slavery but just 12 years later, in 1877, a decision was taken by the leaders of
America that would have profound consequences for the Black man & woman long, long
into the future. The Compromise of 1877 is arguably the most devastating single event in
the history of Blacks in America but these leaders, and we today in Black History Month
know almost nothing about that compromise. May I share it with you?
“The presidential election of 1876 ended in a deadlock between Republican Rutherford
B. Hayes, who represented Northern sentiment & interests and the Democrat Samuel
Tilden, who represented the former slaveholders of the South. The 2 sides fought over the
results for weeks & there were even threats of another Civil War and as the political
leaders wrangled over who was gonna be president, the bankers – the BANKers – and the
industrialists, the so-called robber barons, saw a way to exploit this political discord for
their own financial purposes. The American Bankers Association met on Jan the 26th,
1877 and then again on Feb 7 to strategize in the midst of the controversy. The
emancipation of the Black man had undermined the very source of their fortunes which
was the forced, plantation slave labor of the African. They had always sought to build up
the industrial infrastructure of the south: lay down railroads, build roads and shipping
ports all in order to supply more cotton for the world markets, not less. But they saw in
this political standoff a way to affect their plan to radically change the course of the
nation in their direction.
“If Tilden won, they thought, he would be facing a hostile Republican congress, so they
believed their plans would be better received under a Hayes administration. Southern
politicians, whose votes would be needed for these major projects, could be convinced to
go along with the promise of an enormous capital investment and a return to the old racial
order. That’s when a group of politicians from both parties secretly convened at the
Wormley Hotel in Washington, D.C. to attempt to resolve the conflict & save the Union
from political disaster and possibly a 2nd Civil War. After days of negotiations, they
finally agreed that if Rutherford B. Hayes were awarded the presidency, listen, he would
remove the federal troops in the South who were protecting Black ex-slaves and the
former southern slave holding class would be returned to power where they could
establish new forms of slavery free from federal control.
“The agreement, in effect, put the bankers and industrialists in control of the southern
economy and it forced Blacks back into the cotton fields to finance it all. After 12 years
of emancipation, Blacks would be returned to virtual slavery, denied civil rights and
assigned to permanent political, social & economic inferiority. Jim Crow laws took
immediate effect and Ku Klux Klan terrorism exploded: lynchings, rapes, mass murders
against America’s Black so-called citizens escalated. Black property was stolen , and let
me tell you, after the Emancipation Proclamation, Black people, ex-slaves built over 60
towns that they ran, they voted in blocs & put their own people in positions of power but
with this Compromise, all their gains were taken away and that decision in that Wormley
Hotel would, in effect, nullify the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution…”
- Compromise of 1877
For each of the headings please do the following:
- Describe the main idea(s) of each section
= outline the main support for these ideas
In other words, focus on outlining the handout on the New South into easy to understand chunks so it is easy to recall this information later. Since you will need to study for the test on the Gilded Age/The West - outline now to make it easier later.
THE COMPROMISE OF 1877
“…The compromise of 1877 is arguably the most devastating single event in the historyof Blacks in America…”
Minister Louis Farrakhan spoke the above words, Feb. 27, in Rosemont,
Illinois at the conclusion of the Nation of Islam’s annual Saviours’ Day
convention. His address was nearly 4 hours long but the below excerpt
contains his full comments made about the far-reaching impact of this
not-often referenced or remembered part of American history.
…I want to show you how we have been tricked. There was a great compromise of 1877.
It’s called “The Great Betrayal of the Negro.” In 1865, the 13th amendment legally
abolished slavery but just 12 years later, in 1877, a decision was taken by the leaders of
America that would have profound consequences for the Black man & woman long, long
into the future. The Compromise of 1877 is arguably the most devastating single event in
the history of Blacks in America but these leaders, and we today in Black History Month
know almost nothing about that compromise. May I share it with you?
“The presidential election of 1876 ended in a deadlock between Republican Rutherford
B. Hayes, who represented Northern sentiment & interests and the Democrat Samuel
Tilden, who represented the former slaveholders of the South. The 2 sides fought over the
results for weeks & there were even threats of another Civil War and as the political
leaders wrangled over who was gonna be president, the bankers – the BANKers – and the
industrialists, the so-called robber barons, saw a way to exploit this political discord for
their own financial purposes. The American Bankers Association met on Jan the 26th,
1877 and then again on Feb 7 to strategize in the midst of the controversy. The
emancipation of the Black man had undermined the very source of their fortunes which
was the forced, plantation slave labor of the African. They had always sought to build up
the industrial infrastructure of the south: lay down railroads, build roads and shipping
ports all in order to supply more cotton for the world markets, not less. But they saw in
this political standoff a way to affect their plan to radically change the course of the
nation in their direction.
“If Tilden won, they thought, he would be facing a hostile Republican congress, so they
believed their plans would be better received under a Hayes administration. Southern
politicians, whose votes would be needed for these major projects, could be convinced to
go along with the promise of an enormous capital investment and a return to the old racial
order. That’s when a group of politicians from both parties secretly convened at the
Wormley Hotel in Washington, D.C. to attempt to resolve the conflict & save the Union
from political disaster and possibly a 2nd Civil War. After days of negotiations, they
finally agreed that if Rutherford B. Hayes were awarded the presidency, listen, he would
remove the federal troops in the South who were protecting Black ex-slaves and the
former southern slave holding class would be returned to power where they could
establish new forms of slavery free from federal control.
“The agreement, in effect, put the bankers and industrialists in control of the southern
economy and it forced Blacks back into the cotton fields to finance it all. After 12 years
of emancipation, Blacks would be returned to virtual slavery, denied civil rights and
assigned to permanent political, social & economic inferiority. Jim Crow laws took
immediate effect and Ku Klux Klan terrorism exploded: lynchings, rapes, mass murders
against America’s Black so-called citizens escalated. Black property was stolen , and let
me tell you, after the Emancipation Proclamation, Black people, ex-slaves built over 60
towns that they ran, they voted in blocs & put their own people in positions of power but
with this Compromise, all their gains were taken away and that decision in that Wormley
Hotel would, in effect, nullify the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution…”
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Gilded Age Videos
Rise of Industrial America
Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joB7Lez_tiY
Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHWJ9dNeREA
Video 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXMP1prAsFc
Video 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kkj7741FxI
Video 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0apf_1aalY
Video 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtB51AhWprU
Gilded Age Politics
Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zuS6WAmk0g
Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQYM-1ipcPs
Video 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR60Fj6_x7c
Video 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-xU7MBn9Xw
Video 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opLDrS42X3I
Growth of American Cities and American Culture
Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0en1YqmRhZs
Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4FJLEK0dlg
Video 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfrhuQoIb7s
Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joB7Lez_tiY
Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHWJ9dNeREA
Video 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXMP1prAsFc
Video 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kkj7741FxI
Video 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0apf_1aalY
Video 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtB51AhWprU
Gilded Age Politics
Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zuS6WAmk0g
Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQYM-1ipcPs
Video 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR60Fj6_x7c
Video 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-xU7MBn9Xw
Video 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opLDrS42X3I
Growth of American Cities and American Culture
Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0en1YqmRhZs
Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4FJLEK0dlg
Video 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfrhuQoIb7s
Blog-o-signment #1: set up blog
Due Date for this task: Monday January 26th (both tasks)
So being the super techno, hyper-crazy computer nerd (insert chuckle here... ), I decided to embark on a mission to use the blog as an entry point for the 2nd semester. I think it will make class interesting, innovative and interesting for all.
You will be creating your own blog for APUSH, so your job this week is to set up your history blog.
Create your "home" blog to answer weekly journal / essential questions, historical inquiries and general queries about history.
Here are your tasks for this week:
1) Go to blogger.com and set it up.
It is pretty self explanatory, the only direction is you must email me your blogger.com web address / URL. Email me at dbeller2@wcpss.net. Keep it simple.
You can choose the color, the layout and design. Please avoid immediately putting a ton of photos and links, this is an academic page, so lets keep it fun and interesting, but focused on the task at hand.
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Your academic task:
Your job is to watch the videos on the Gilded Age in America (1865-1900) posted and take notes. You should post answers to the Thought Provokers on your blog. You will be graded on completion and eventually tested on the materials.
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