II - The Rise of American Imperialism
The Strenuous Life (6.1.12.D.3.d)
Do Now Assignment
Review Material for Quiz on The World Columbian Exposition
Lesson Objective (Essential Question) - What is success?
Agenda
SAT Words of the Day: Thesis, Endorse, Strenuous, Virtuous, Regimen, Dynamic
Notes and Lecture
Frederick Jackson Turner presented his Frontier Thesis at the Chicago World Fair
Theodore Roosevelt was a strong supporter
He wholeheartedly endorsed the strenuous life
Success came from triumphing over danger, hardship and toil
Americans must not settle for a gray, twilight existence
Parental enabling was unacceptable
Children must be brought up to lead clean, virtuous, healthy lives
TR came to embody mens sana in corpore sano
Conditioning and a health regimen were essential to this concept
Bernarr Macfadden was a dynamic spokesman for this new physical culture
Web Article - How the Frontier Shaped the American Character
http://spot.colorado.edu/~mcguire/billington.htm
What in a nutshell was Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis?
How did it deviate from traditional theories on the development of the American character?
What characteristics associated with the American people did he believe were traceable to the frontier?
You Tube Video - Theodore Roosevelt and the Western Experience (58:32) 20:42 - 25:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_lc4th0w7I
Web Article - Theodore Roosevelt. 1900. The Strenuous Life - http://www.bartleby.com/58/1.html
To whom does the greatest form of success come?
What must a rich man teach his son?
What sort of man should we not admire?
What are the prerequisites for a healthy state?
What makes a nation’s history glorious?
Web Article - *Weakness a Crime! - http://www.bernarrmacfadden.com/macfadden3.html
What was the significance of Physical Culture Magazine?
What sport did Bernarr MacFadden help popularize?
How did MacFadden go against the standards of his time?
What was his philosophy?
How did he attempt to rival Kellogg and Post?
Click for a look inside some of MacFadden’s Physical Culture magazines
Click for a look inside an issue of Beauty and Health
YouTube Video - Bernarr MacFadden IS Mr. America (4:18)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVY97zYV0tQ
Differentiated Instruction Activity - Picture Walk
Write a first person narrative in which Theodore Roosevelt endorses the concept of the strenuous life.
Closure - Exit Activity: Discussion Review
Formative Assessment - Time On Task/Completion of Assigned Work
Summative Assessment - Quiz Tomorrow on The Strenuous Life
Extension Activity - Film - Captains Courageous 1937
Whaling (6.1.12.C.3.b)
Do Now Assignment
Review Material for Quiz on The Strenuous Life
Lesson Objective (Essential Question)
What is the attraction of the deadliest catch? Agenda
SAT Words of the Day: Renowned, Spermaceti, Ambergris, Scrimshaw, Bi-Product
Notes and Lecture
Shipping out on a whaler was a rite of passage
Nantucket and New Bedford were renowned whaling towns
Whale oil was used to light lamps
Spermaceti, ambergris and scrimshaw were other bi-products
A Nantucket Sleigh Ride was a sailor’s delight
An angry sperm whale, like Moby Dick wasn’t
The story of the whale ship Essex served as the inspiration for Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick
Whaling shoulder guns made the industry safer
Web Articles - Moby-Dick; or, The Whale – Chapter I - Loomings
http://americanliterature.com/author/herman-melville/book/moby-dick-or-the-whale/chapter-1-loomings
When was Ishmael drawn to the sea?
When he went to sea why did he always ship out as a sailor?
What drew him to New Bedford to sign on as a whaler?
Moby Dick (1956) Movie Script/SS
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=moby-dick-1956
How did the whalers of New Bedford greet Ishmael?
What did they say whales were capable of doing? What was the biggest compliment they paid to a whale?
YouTube Videos - Leviathan - The History of Whaling in America (4:23)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nFdqCr0A1A
Moby Dick - Ishmael’s First Whale (2:02) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0urqw0d52s
Captain Ahab’s Ambition Spread to Ishmel and All His Team 2 (7:01)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdvhw5XcQqg
Web Article - The Whale, the Terrifying True Story that Inspired Moby Dick
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10500877/The-Whale-the-terrifying-real-voyage-that-inspired-Moby-Dick.html
What happened to the whaleship Essex?
What was so ironic about its survivors not trying to reach the nearest inhabited islands?
What formula for survival did first mate Owen Chase establish for the men in his whaleboat?
What did Captain Pollard remember about his rescue and the fate of his cousin Owen Coffin?
YouTube Video - The True Story of Moby Dick (45:21) 31:30-42:19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71sn-WDQoXI
Web Article - *Shoulder Guns - Whalecraft - http://www.whalecraft.net/Shoulder_Guns.html
Why were whaling shoulder guns developed? What were the advantages of the Cunningham and Cogan model?
Differentiated Instruction Activity - Picture Walk
Write a first person narrative in which a whaler reminisces about his years at sea.
Closure - Exit Activity: Discussion Review
Formative Assessment - Time On Task/Completion of Assigned Work
Summative Assessment - Quiz Tomorrow on Whaling
Extension Activity - In the Heart of the Sea, The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, Nathaniel Philbrick, 2000
Missionaries (6.1.12.D.14.e)
Do Now Assignment
Review Material for Quiz on Whaling
Lesson Objective (Essential Question)
Do all generations of Americans have a Great Commission?
Agenda
SAT Words of the Day: Commission, Evangelization, Strict, Vengeful
Notes and Lecture
Christian missionaries followed the whalers to the South Pacific
This was in response to the Great Commission
Princeton activists committed themselves to The Evangelization of the World in This Generation
Some adopted a strict Old Testament approach to religion
They had little respect for native culture
They believed in a vengeful God who could be called upon to punish sinners
Others like Father Damien DeVeuster adopted a more New Testament approach
He assumed the role of the suffering servant
Rudyard Kipling referred to their mission as the White Man’s Burden
Web Article - *Why Campus Revivals Spark Missionary Advance
http://chialpha.com/files/misc/WHYCAMPUSREVIVALSSPARKMISSIONARYADVANCE. pdf
What was the moral condition of America in 1790?
What was the situation at Princeton?
What happened at the turn of the century?
What was the Great Commission? What was the Princeton Foreign Missionary Society?
YouTube Videos - Preview - The Lord’s Boot Camp CBS News (2:13)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FijDQYxUj7M
Hawaii 1966 (2:41:28) 38:26-51:48) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iqI8wr660E
Hawaii 1966 (2:41:28) 2:01:22 – 2:24:54 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iqI8wr660E
Web Article - Damien the Leper - EWTN
https://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/DAMIEN.HTM
How did contact with the outside world affect the Hawaiian Islands?
What was Karo faced with? What had she heard about Molokai?
Who was Father Damien DeVeuster?
How did his attitude change in dealing with the people of Molokai?
YouTube Video - Molokai: The Story of Father Damian (1999) Part 4 (9:44)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfHWO-1s_ho
Web Article - The White Man’s Burden: Kipling’s Hymn to U.S. Imperialism http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5478/
How did the missionaries view the natives?
Why was the missionaries’ work so frustrating?
Why couldn’t they complain about their burden?
What advice was given to those who began to doubt their mission?
Differentiated Instruction Activity - Picture Walk
Write a first person narrative in which the Reverend Abner Hale explains the Great Commission.
Closure - Exit Activity: Discussion Review
Formative Assessment - Time On Task/Completion of Assigned Material
Summative Assessment - Quiz Tomorrow on Missionaries
Extension Activity - Film - Hawaii (1966)
Manifest Destiny (6.1.12.C.5.a)
Do Now Assignment
Review Material for Quiz on Missionaries
Lesson Objective (Essential Question)
Is Manifest Destiny a product of perception management?
Agenda
SAT Words of the Day: Altruistic, Advocate, Imperialists, Avarice, Annexation, Subjective, Unimpeded
Notes and Lecture
Early interest in the Americas was far from altruistic
While advocates of the Great Commission came in search of souls
Business interests were drawn to these uncivilized lands by the raw materials, cheap labor, and markets for manufactured goods they offered
Colonial Imperialists rationalized their avarice
This was our Manifest Destiny
Banana Republics were established in Latin America
Uncooperative governments were overthrown
The cries of the people were ignored
YouTube Video - Pocahontas - Dig for Virginia (3:27)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFHym_W6vkE
Web Articles - A. Beveridge: March of the Flag 1898
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/1898beveridge.html
How does Albert Beveridge describe America, her people and her history?
Did we keep our original covenant with God?
What world question did he believe now faces America? What were the consequences of a no answer?
Arguments in Favor of Imperialism
http://www.jfkcougars.org/apps/download/xFnmORFmTyKnSevKeaaMhfI4IAgGsdrYTeugEjHSfPxEMEmk.pdf/Imperialism.pdf
What were the three most subjective arguments in favor of Imperialism?
Bananas How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/books/review/Kurtz-Phelan-t.html?_r=0
What happened when the Banana Company arrived in Macondo?
Why did the United Fruit Company choose Guatemala for its earliest developmental activities?
What was the company’s status? How did it maintain its control and assure its unimpeded growth?
YouTube Video - Chiquita Banana The Original Commercial (1:24) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFDOI24RRAE
Annexing Hawaii (2:07) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7R9reim3OM
Web Article - * Hawaiian Annexation Resistance
http://www.alohaquest.com/archive/annexrally.htm
What was the Morgan Report? Why were Hawaiian royalists concerned about the report?
What arguments did Senator John T. Morgan present to mollify their fears?
How did the annexation of Hawaii eventually come about?
YouTube Video - Tia Carrere Aloha Oe (3:50)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrhAuEeyCao
Differentiated Instruction Activity - Picture Walk
Write a first person narrative in which Minor Keith advances the cause of colonial imperialism.
Closure - Exit Activity: Discussion Review
Formative Assessment - Time On Task/Completion of Assigned Material
Summative Assessment - Quiz Tomorrow on Manifest Destiny
Extension Activity - Bananas - How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World, Peter Chapman, 2008
Yellow Journalism (6.1.12.A.16.a)
Do Now Assignment
Review Material for Quiz on Manifest Destiny
Lesson Objective (Essential Question)
Should the truth get in the way of a good story?
Agenda
SAT Words of the Day: Tabloid, Emerge, Practitioner, Inspire, Luxury
Notes and Lecture
At the turn of the century tabloid journalism emerged as a media force
Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst were its two greatest practitioners and rivals
In 1894, Jose Marti inspired the Cuban people to cast off Spanish rule
The ensuing insurrection was a gold mine for the New York World and Journal
Their yellow journalists descended on Cuba
Stephen Crane was almost killed in the attempt
Unlike modern reporters who can cover the news live
The yellow journalists had the luxury of making it up
Some believed that you should never let the truth get in the way of a good story
Web Article - How to Get Ahead in Tabloid Journalism
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2011/07/how_to_get_ahead_in_tabloid_journalism.html
What did the question where’s the head mean to New Yorkers in 1897?
How did the New York Times attempt to beat back the tide of yellow journalism?
What did William Randolph Hearst realize about the public?
What did the journalistic war over the Guldensuppe story prove?
YouTube Video - Charla - A Chat with Jose Marti (5::02)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7caNS-8OgLg
Web Article - *The Shipwreck, Discovery, and Investigation of the SS Commodore
http://www.staugustinelighthouse.org/LAMP/Research/SS_Commodore
Why did Stephen Crane sign aboard the Commodore as an able seaman?
What questionable activities was the Commodore involved in?
What happened to the Commodore off the coast of Daytona, Florida?
How did Crane almost lose his life?
YouTube Video - Howard Cosell - San Marcos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1QVthvDhPo
The World; Remember Yellow Journalism
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/15/weekinreview/the-world-remember-yellow-journalism.html
How did the Hearst reporters gain access to the rebel camps in Cuba?
Why did the Hearst newspapers demonize General Valeriano Weyler?
What was the truth behind this Remington sketch of Clemencia Arango?
http://fch.fiu.edu/fch-2006/A%20Visual%20Conversation_files/image001.jpg
Web Article - The Dramatic Rescue of Evangelina Cisneros
https://wizzley.com/the-dramatic-rescue-of-evangelina-cisneros/
How did the Hearst newspapers report on the imprisonment of Evangelina Cosio y Cineros?
How did Karl Decker break her out of prison?
What was the American reaction to her rescue?
Differentiated Instruction Activity - Picture Walk
Write a first person narrative in which a reader explains his fascination with tabloid journalism.
Closure - Exit Activity: Discussion Review
Formative Assessment - Time On Task/Completion of Assigned Material
Summative Assessment - Quiz Tomorrow on Yellow Journalism
Extension Activity - The Open Boat, Stephen Crane, 1897
Remember the Maine! (6.1.12.A.16.a)
Do Now Assignment
Review Material for Quiz on Yellow Journalism
Lesson Objective (Essential Question)
Why must wars be moral?
Agenda
SAT Words of the Day: Akin, Dynamic, Proponent, Aggressor, Justifiable, Unprovoked, Demonize, Avenge
Notes and Lecture
Yellow journalism played into the hands of America’s war hawks
These were men in something akin to panic over the closing of the frontier
They needed an outlet for their energy and dynamic nature…the coiled spring that was the United States
They needed to face the great death in a foreign war
Theodore Roosevelt was the greatest proponent of this movement
However, they all realized that the US could not come across as the aggressor
The war had to be a justifiable response to injustice and unprovoked attack
The Spanish were demonized
The destruction of the Maine was presented an act of terrorism to be avenged
The Spanish American War became a moral crusade
Web Article - Theodore Roosevelt, Empire Builder - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/books/review/Steel-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Why did Senator Henry Cabot Lodge support American involvement in a foreign war?
Why did William Randolph Hearst support American involvement in a foreign war?
Why were three things Theodore Roosevelt hoped to gain by participation in a foreign war?
What are three adjectives that best describe the type of war they were primed for?
YouTube Video - Rough Riders (Teddy Roosevelt Speech) 1:26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhkCWpbZyJU
Web Articles - The Reconcentrados and The Military Prisons
http://www.heritage-history.com/?c=read&author=morris&book=spain&story=prisons
Explain the thought process that went into General Weyler’s plan for ending the Cuban insurrection?
What did Richard Harding Davis report about the conditions in Weyler’s reconcentration camps?
What was General Weyler’s simple explanation for the Reconcentrado order?
What were some other examples of Spanish barbarity cited in this aticle?
*Clara Barton’s 1898 Battles in Cuba
http://home.fau.edu/peralta/web/FACS/CLARABARTON.pdf
Why didn’t Clara Barton immediately dispatch the Red Cross to Cuba to tend to the reconcentrados?
What did she do upon her arrival in Cuba? What did she declare war against?
How did she deal with the Spanish authorities in Cuba?
What problem did she have with the American Admiral Sampson?
YouTube Video - USS Maine (11:47) First 5:31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXaATouTg14
Web Article - Josiah Strong, Our Country (1885)
https://staush.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/imperialismantiimperialismdocs.pdf