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WEEK 1 JOURNAL 2 Answer the following: You and your family are moving across the country, leaving your home never to return. Your family can only take what will fit in your vehicle. (normal size family vehicle) Write down what you would take with you and explain why you would take each item. You will need two colored pencils. Any color! Please pick up two from one of the containers located around the room - back bookshelves, my desk, front cart.
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WESTWARD EXPANSION MANIFESTDESTINY
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What time period are we talking about? 1800s Nineteenth Century
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Who is moving? Exodusters Former Slaves Others Civil War Vets Convicts Railroad Workers Unemployed
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Why are they moving? Jobs in the West Mining Mining Farming/Ranching Farming/Ranching Open Range Open Range Federal Land Grants Homestead Act Homestead Act Morrill Land Grant Morrill Land Grant Other reasons
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Self-sufficient
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How are they moving? Covered Wagon Railroads Pacific Railway Act (Lincoln) Pacific Railway Act (Lincoln) Transcontinental Railroad Transcontinental Railroad Union Pacific / Central Pacific Union Pacific / Central Pacific
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How did movement affect the makeup of the United States? Geography Boom/Ghost Towns Boom/Ghost Towns Barbed Wire Barbed Wire Great Plains Great Plains Native Americans Treaty of Fort Laramie Treaty of Fort Laramie Massacre at Wounded Knee Massacre at Wounded Knee Wovaka – Ghost DanceWovaka – Ghost Dance Dawes Act / Assimilation Dawes Act / Assimilation
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Carlisle School Of Learning
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African Americans 13 th Amendment 14 th Amendment 15 th Amendment
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CLOSING THE FRONTIER General Washburn Oklahoma Land Rush
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WEEK 1 JOURNAL 3 Identify what the Homestead Act, Exodusters and Reservations are and explain the connections between them. When you finish be reading over your notes from yesterday!
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INDUSTRIALIZATION
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What is Industrialization? What makes it possible? Materials Materials People People Workers and EntrepreneursWorkers and Entrepreneurs Where was the main US industrial region?
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Economic Philosophies Laissez Faire CapitalismSocialism Social Darwinism Gospel of Wealth Reform Darwinism
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Key Players Edwin Drake Henry Bessemer Andrew Carnegie Horizontal Horizontal Vertical Vertical John Rockefeller
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Laissez-Faire No government influence in economics Means that there are no laws!!! Means that there are no laws!!! Free Enterprise “Hands Off”
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Capitalism Private Ownership of Business YOU decide What we have in the US
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Socialism Total government control of economy No free enterprise
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Gospel of Wealth Andrew Carnegie It is ok to make a lot of money as long as you give back to society It is ok to make a lot of money as long as you give back to society
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Social Darwinism What is “Darwinism”? How does this relate to society? SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST BUSINESS
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Reform Darwinism Darwinism – just different Instead of competition you work together for success of all Cooperation!!!
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Tariffs High High Low Low
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Led to: Monopolies Consolidation of Railroads Consolidation of Railroads Trusts Robber Barons Corruption Credit Mobilier Credit Mobilier Interstate Commerce Commission Sherman Anti Trust Act Panic of 1893 Stanford and the Big Four Vanderbilt James J. Hill
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How did industrialization affect society? Population shift Rural to Urban Rural to Urban Isolation and ideas Inventions Telephone Telephone Light Bulb Light Bulb Ice Machine Ice Machine Standard Sizes Standard Sizes Leisure Time
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WEEK 1 JOURNAL 4 Read the quote and answer the question. “And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.” In this excerpt, Andrew Carnegie is presenting justification for which system? SocialismGospel of Wealth Capitalismlaissez-faire Social DarwinismReform Darwinism Write the name of the system you believe he is supporting and explain why you believe it.
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Labor Unions Need for Unions Working conditions Working conditions Salaries Salaries.27 – 14 hour day – child.27 – 14 hour day – child $267 a year – woman$267 a year – woman $498 a year – man$498 a year – man $23 million$23 million Local Unions
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National Labor Union Knights of Labor Arbitration
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Two types of Unions Trade Unions – Craft Unions American Federation of Labor American Federation of Labor Samuel Gompers Samuel Gompers Industrial Unions Industrial Workers of the World Industrial Workers of the World Eugene V. Debs Eugene V. Debs
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Strikes Haymarket Affair Effect Effect Pullman Strike
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Women Organize Mary Harris Jones Garment Workers Union Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Results Results
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IMMIGRATION Old immigration New immigration
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Week 1 JOURNAL 5 Read the article on your desk and answer the questions below. 1. Who wrote the article? 2. What do you think a tenement is? 3. According to the article, how did the wealthy respond to epidemics? 4. Give a brief description of life in the tenements.
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Immigrants come to America Push and Pull Factors
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Once in the US Immigrants would… Live in Work in Congregate
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Americans respond to influx by Nativism
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The Government responds by Chinese Exclusion Act Gentlemen’s Agreement
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URBANIZATION Opportunities Population Problems Housing - Tenements Housing - Tenements Transportation Transportation Water Water Sanitation Sanitation Crime Crime Fire Fire
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Addressing the problems Jacob Riis Social Gospel Movement Settlement House Movement
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WEEK 2 JOURNAL 6 Jacob Riis learned about living conditions of the slums of New York while working as a newspaper reporter during the late 1800s. His photographs and writings about living conditions among the poor helped to bring about social reform. 1. In your own words, summarize what Jacob Riis is known for. 2. What type of journalist was Jacob Riis?
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GILDED AGE What does that mean?
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Political Machines What are they? Immigrants Fraud and Graft Boss Tweed Thomas Nast
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Patronage and its results Spoils System Presidents try to reform Mugwumps Stalwarts Garfield, Guiteau and Arthur Pendleton Act
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Big Business and Government McKinley Tariff Wilson Gorman Tariff Grover Cleveland Grover Cleveland
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JOURNAL #6 Write two questions you have about the material we have covered. What don’t you understand?
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Populism Platform Bimetallism Sherman Silver Purchase Act William Jennings Bryan The Wizard of Oz
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WEEK 2 JOURNAL 7 You were given a term as you entered the room. There are 10 categories posted beside the screen. Decide which one your term belongs to. IN YOUR JOURNAL: 1. Write your term and its category in your journal. 2. Define your term. 3. Explain the connection to its category.
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