UNIT 6“The Gilded Age” Assignment Sheet Spring 2015

Period 6
1865-1898 / Ch 19: New Frontiers: South & West (p. 705 – 741)
Ch 20: Big Business & Organized Labor (p. 743 – 777)
Ch 21: The Emergence of Urban America (p. 779 – 811) - only selected sections
-New Immigration p. 786 – 793
-Popular Culture – Saloon Culture p. 794-6
-Education and the Professions p. 801-11
-(Stop at p.811 will be covered with the Progressives in Unit 6)
Ch 22: Gilded Age Politics & Agrarian Revolt (p. 819 – 852)
Jan 6th – 9th / Activities / Assignments:
-Read Ch 19: New Frontiers: South and West
  • Assignment: Wounded Knee Article with Questions
  • A day = Thurs 8th & B day = Fri 9th
  • For a better view on the Native Americans and their conflict you can watch the movie “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” an HBO movie
  • (part one of 13 on youtube … it’s free!)

Jan 12th – 16th / Activities / Assignments:
-POTUS Quiz 1-22 (A day = Mon 12th & B day = Tues 13th)
-readCh 20: Big Business & Organized Labor (take your time with this chapter)
-do terms for Ch 20 this week
-Web activity on Labor Unions and Strikes (in class)
Jan 20th – 23rd / Activities / Assignments:
-Quiz Ch 20
  • A day = Wed 21st & B day = Thurs 22nd
  • Terms for Ch 20 due along with quiz, will be incorporated into quiz grade!!
-Start reading Ch 21 – you have an assignment due next week
Jan 26th – 30th / Activities / Assignments:
-Ch 21 Assignment(A day = Tues 27th & B day = Wed 28th)
-TERMS
-MAP: The Emergence of Cities, 1880 Map (print out and label cities & color code areas of growth) & answer the textbook questions
-MINI WEBQUEST: Immigration: the living mosaic of people, chultre & hope
  • Read the introduction page
  • Regulations & laws:
  • What was the first law restricting immigration and when was it enacted?
  • Read about The Germans, The Chinese, The Irish, & The Jews
  • Write down at least 2 important facts (for EACH group). Think about when they immigrated and their reasons for doing so.
    - continues onto next page …. 
  • Go to their stories:
  • Past Stories: read one accounts and write down 3 facts about the story
  • Recent Stories: read one accounts and write down 3 facts about the story
  • Compare and contrast the past stories with the recent stories: What do they have in common? How are they different?
  • Go to Ellis Island:
  • History: Write down 4 important details about the history of Ellis Island
  • Virtual Tour: Choose 2 quotes and write a 2 sentence reflection about your thoughts on the statement
  • Just for fun: see if you can find your family’s name in the records from Ellis Island 
  • Go to the Statue of Liberty:
  • Symbolism: What is symbolic about the Statue of Liberty according to the website?
  • What does the Statue of Liberty represent to you?
-ARTICLE: “Three Interpretations of Social Darwinism” – document on blog
  • Questions:
  • 1) By telling the squid and the lobster story, what message was Dreiser conveying to readers, about men such as Cowperwood?
  • 2) If Abbott and Ward had read The Financier, how might they have responded? Why?
  • 3) Historians sometimes claim that American thinkers of this era, endorsing Social Darwinism and “survival of the fittest,” opposed social reform. How do Abbott and Ward complicate that view?

Feb 2nd – 6th / Activities / Assignments:
-Assignment: Why a Cross of Gold with questions (due same day as quiz)
-Ch 22 Quiz (A day = Mon 2nd & B day = Tues 3rd)
-Review (A day = Wed 4th & B day = Thurs 5th)
Unit 6 Test - Ch 19-22
** Note: if you have any missing assignments from this unit, you will not be able to complete test corrections – SO do your work to help your prepare and also get points back later (and think if you do your work, you won’t even need to do test corrections anyhow!! Win-Win )**
A day = Fri 6th & B day = Mon 9th

Ch 19: New Frontiers: South & West (p. 705 – 741)

Terms to Master: (30 terms total)

-New South:

  • Sharecropping (tenant farming)
  • Crop-lien system
  • Bourbon redeemers
  • Jim Crow laws
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • National Association of Colored Women (1896)
  • Ida B. Wells
  • NAACP (1909)
  • Booker T. Washington
  • W.E.B. DuBois
  • Tuskegee Institute
  • Grandfather clause, poll tax, literacy test

-New West:

  • Transcontinental railroad (& workers)
  • Exodusters
  • Buffalo soldiers
  • Lt. Colonel George Custer
  • Sioux
  • Little Big Horn
  • Nez Perces (Chief Joseph)
  • Ghost Dance
  • Wounded Knee Massacre
  • Frederick Jackson Turner (frontier thesis)
  • Sitting Bull
  • Helen Hunt Jackson “A century of dishonor” 1881
  • Dawes Severalty Act
  • Refrigerated railroad cars
  • Open range system
  • Barbed wire (Joseph Glidden)
  • Sodbusters
  • Homestead Act 1862 (look to ch 18 terms)

Ch 20: Big Business & Organized Labor (p. 743 – 777):

Study Suggestions / Questions: (this is a more involved chapter so make sure you can explain the following)

-Understand the developments that produced the second industrial revolution in Germany and the United States.

-Describe the role of the major entrepreneurs like Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan.

-Account for the limited growth of unions in this period and the success of the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor.

-Discuss the major labor confrontations in the period.

-Explain the limited appeal of socialism for American labor.

Terms to Master: (27 terms total)

-Closed shop

-Second Industrial Revolution

-Robber barons

-Captains of industry

-Jay Gould

-Cornelius Vanderbilt

-Thomas Edison

-J.P. Morgan

-John D. Rockefeller (Standard Oil)

-Andrew Carnegie (US Steel)

-“Gospel of Wealth”

-Horizontal integration

-Vertical integration

-Bessemer Process

-Sear & Roebuck Catalog

-Alexander Graham Bell

-Great RR strike of 1877

-Knights of Labor (Uriah S. Stephens & Terence Powderly)

-Haymarket Square riot

-American Federation of Labor (AFL)

-Samuel Gompers

-Homestead Strike

-Pullman Strike

-Sherman Anti-Trust Act

-Mother Jones

-Eugene V. Debs (person, not court case)

-Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) “Wobblies”

Ch 21: The Emergence of Urban America (p. 779 – 811)

Terms to Master: (15 terms total)

-Tenements

-Ellis Island

-Angel Island

-Chinese Exclusion Act

-William “Buffalo Bill” Cody

-Vaudeville

-Social Darwinsim

-Herbert Spencer

-William Graham Sumner

-Pragmatism

-Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

-Gilded Age

-Conspicuous consumption

-Social gospel

-Urbanization

Ch 22: Gilded Age Politics & Agrarian Revolt (p. 819 – 852)

Study Suggestions / Questions: (this is a more involved chapter so make sure you can explain the following)

  • Discuss the major features of politics in the late nineteenth century.
  • Explain the major issues in the presidential elections of 1888, 1892, and 1896.
  • Account for the rise of the farmer protest movement of the 1890s.
  • Evaluate the impact of populism on the American scene.

Terms to Master: (18 terms total)

-Pendleton Civil Service Act

-Mongrel tariff

-Bland – Allison Act

-Pork barrel

-McKinley Tariff 1890

-The Grange movement

-Patrons of Husbandry

-Greenback party

-Farmers’ Alliance

-Populist party

-“Crime of 1873”

-William Jennings Bryan

-“Cross of Gold” speech

-Interstate Commerce Commission

-Munn v. Illinois

-Wabash Railroad vs. Illinois

Quick Guide Calendar for Blog

5
No School
Teacher Work day / 6A
*Afterschool Test corrections (Unit 5 Test) / 7B / 8A
Due:
-New Years Resolutions Signed
-Wounded Knee Article
* Afterschool Test corrections / 9B
Due:
-New Years Resolutions Signed
-Wounded Knee Article
12A
POTUS Quiz 1-22 / 13B
POTUS Quiz 1-22 / 14A / 15B
*Afterschool Test corrections / 16A Winterfest Pep Rally
MC day
19
MLK Jr. Day
No School / 20B
MC day / 21A
Labor Webquest due
Ch 20 Quiz with Terms / 22B
Labor Webquest due
Ch 20 Quiz with Terms / 23A
26B / 27A
Ch 21 assignment due / 28B
Ch 21 assignment due / 29A / 30B
2A
Populous Article Due
Ch 22 Quiz / 3B
Populous Article Due
Ch 22 Quiz / 4A
Review Day / 5B
Review Day / 6A
Unit 6 Test with Short Answers
9B
Unit 6 Test with Short Answers