Unit 6: 1865-1898 Assignments and Due Dates

Brinkley Chapters 17, 18, and 19

 

1/18/16: No School. Read Digital History “The Industrial Revolution”

Homework: Read Brinkley 480-489. Robber Baron or Captain of Industry worksheet. Men to research: Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller (due 1/20)

1/19/16: Lecture Sources of Industrial Growth-Railroad Expansion.

Homework: Read Digital History Business Organizations. Complete Robber Baron or Captain of Industry worksheet.

1/20/16: Lecture Capitalism and its Critics. Read Digital History The Theory of Laissez-Faire.

            Homework: Read Brinkley 489-497. Read Excerpt of Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth and answer questions

1/21/16: Lecture Industrial Workers in the New Economy-The Struggle to Unionize

Homework: Finish Chapter 17 Essential Terms. Complete all of Chapter 17 Connect Assignments. Begin to research the assignment for 1/22/16.

1/22/16: Research: The Great Railroad Strike, McCormick Harvester Strike, The Knights of Labor, the AFL, Homestead Strike, the Pullman Strike. Why did each strike occur? What was the result of each strike? Who were the major leaders of the KOL and AFL? What was each organization’s agenda?

Where do your sympathies most often lie: with the owners or workers?  Why?  How did you feel about union involvement in the strikes?  Were unions or management more often to blame for the strikes?  Are strikes ever justifiable in the past as well as the present? Were the strikes successful? Why or why not?  Include at least 5 pictures/primary source documents of conditions in factories during the time period (Triangle Shirtwaist Fire).

            Homework: Finish Research.

1/25/16: Review Research. Lecture Sources of Labor Weakness

Homework: Complete Chapter 17 Discussion Questions. Read Digital History, The Sherman Anti-Trust Act and Standard Oil.

1/26/16: Discussion Questions due today. Lecture the Urbanization of America.

Homework: Read Brinkley 502-508 and begin Chapter 18 Essential Terms. Complete The Changing Status of Women Interpreting Sources and read Women’s Rights primary source/SOAPSTone.

1/27/16: Chapter 18 Patterns of Popular Culture, Lecture: The Urban Landscape-Strains of Urban Life

Homework: Brinkley 508-512. Read How the Other Half Lives. Find at least 5 of Jacob Riis’s photographs. Is a text source or photographic source more reliable? For both the reading and the photographs, identify Riis’s intended audience, purpose, choices of evidence, and bias. Assess the uses and limits of his work as historical evidence.

1/28/16: Teach your classmate activity: Statue of Liberty finished in 1886. Research the following groups of immigrants to the US: Chinese, Scandinavians, English, Russian Jews, Italians, and Poles. Identify when each group immigrated, the push-pull factors for each group, where they settled, and the reaction to each group’s arrival in the United States. Compare and contrast the experiences of new vs. old immigrant groups (pre-Civil War, Gilded Age)

            Homework: Brinkley 512-517. Finish research. Review San Francisco-Chinatown.

1/29/16: Review Research. Lecture The Rise of Mass Consumption-Leisure in the Consumer Society

Homework: Brinkley 517-527. Finish Chapter 18 Essential Terms and Chapter 18 Connect Assignments. Chapter 18 Discussion Questions

2/1/16: Lecture: High Culture in the Age of the City.

Homework: Create a timeline of major technological developments from 1865 to 1900 (5-10). Write a brief statement identifying the impact each development had on the people of the United States.

2/2/16: Review timelines. Lecture The Politics of Equilibrium

Homework: Brinkley 531-535 and begin Chapter 19 Essential Terms. Read the farmers movement primary and secondary sources and use pages 535-546 of your text book. Answer the following: significant facts (who, what, where, when, why, how) and the impact the event had on the farmer’s movement. Include primary source documents.

2/3/16: Review readings. Read Mary Lease and Cross of Gold Speech.

            Homework: Brinkley 535-543. Finish reading speeches.

2/4/16: Lecture Stirrings of Imperialism. Read Chapter 19 Patterns of Popular Culture

            Homework: Brinkley 543-561. Read Digital History Cuba and Philippines.

2/5/16: Review Digital History documents. Read Digital History Platt Amendment and US gains Panama.

Homework: Brinkley 561-565. Finish Chapter 19 Essential Terms and Chapter 19 Connect Assignments. Finish Digital History documents.

2/8/16: Review Digital History Documents. Lecture The Republic as Empire

Homework: Chapter 19 Discussion Questions. Begin Unit 6 DBQ

2/9/16: Digital History The Monroe Doctrine and the Roosevelt Corollary

            Homework: Unit 6 DBQ

2/10/16: Unit 6 Videos/Unit 6 Exam.

            Homework: Finish Unit 6 Exam. Read Brinkley 569-573 and begin Chapter 20 Essential Terms

 

Recommended Further Reading: Review the Spanish American War. Alfred T. Mahan “The Influence of Sea Power upon History, Mark Twain “To the Person Sitting in the Darkness”, Josiah Strong “Our Country”,

 

Be sure to check out the Gilder Lehrman website for further documents/videos/essays, etc.

http://ap.gilderlehrman.org/period/6

 

Digital History

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=10&smtID=11

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=9&smtid=11

 

Extra Info:

http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/lecturesok.html