Here is a tentative list of assignments for the week of January 11, 2010. Please make sure that you are keeping up with the readings.
QUIZZITO on Chapter 23 on FRIDAY! Individual Quiz!
Monday Night -
1. If you didn't finish today's in-class assignment, finish it tonight for HW. HERE's the LINK! ...Remember to email your results to mtesler@wjps.org.
Due Tuesday: Please finish the Guided Reading Questions for Chapter 23. The ID's and Guided Reading Q's can be found by clicking HERE. Here's an audio copy of chapter 23. .
Tuesday Night: Due Thursday...A MOVIE NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE!!!
Tuesday Night: Due Thursday...A MOVIE NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE!!!
Part I: Post-Civil War:
The Unfinished Nation: Tattered Remains
Provides a comprehensive overview of the hardships faced by African Americans during the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War. The program focuses on both the positive and negative aspects associated with the period, touching on how segregated schools, the Ku Klux Klan, lynch mobs, sharecropping, and Jim Crow laws continued to oppress newly freed slaves. The unique and influential role of African American women on family and society is explored in detail, as is the leadership of Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Booker T. Washington. The presentation notes how the monumental Plessy v. Ferguson trial changed American access to railroad transportation and shifted racial attitudes during this explosive era of history. Play
Part II: Gilded Age:
The Unfinished Nation: Political Stalemate
Assesses the issues and problems that ended the political deadlock between Republicans and Democrats in the years following the Civil War and Reconstruction. The program stresses the importance of civil service reform and big business regulation in the 1880s and 1890s and notes how the administrations of Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, and William Henry Harrison attempted to control the American economy with such initiatives as the Interstate Commerce Act and the Pendleton Act. Historians examine the growing divide between the two established political parties and chronicle how American industrialization and the threat of inflation created the Populist Party. A look at the election of 1896 and the incendiary speeches of William Jennings Bryan illustrates the fight against the gold standard and reveals how William McKinley became the new voice for Republicans.
Thursday: View and Take Notes on the following on-line lecture
Lecture Notes will be Spot-Checked on Friday
Friday - For Tuesday 1/19/10
1. Preview Chapter 26 by Reading the CHAPTER NOTES. Create an index card outline of the notes. These will be spot-checked (you don't have to hand these in).
2. READ CHAPTER 26. Here's Chapter 26 in an audiobook form. Download it to your iPod!
3. Complete Chapter ID's and Guided Reading Questions. Here's a link to the ID's and GRQ's. I've left you space after each question, so if you'd like you can complete it, like a workbook.
Previewing The Week of 1/19/10:
1. TAKE HOME EXAM on Civil War, Reconstruction, and the West DUE JANUARY 25th. We'll work on it in class during 8th period on Friday the 22nd, and it's due on that Monday.
2. HW assignments to be posted shortly.
3. Expect a TAKE-HOME MIDTERM during Regents Week.
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Movie Night
Reconstruction
Reconstruction was after the civil was when the south was damages economically due to the war.
The souths foundation was slavery and once it was gone the south faced many problems. Sothern states had to accept black suffrage as now they were considered regular people. Blacks now were able to go to school but in separate schools as the whites. The Klu Klux Klan was a gang that was formed after the civil war that was aggainst blacks. Blacks would rarely have jobs. Sharecropping was common so people without work can borrow a piece of a farm.
The Gilded Age
The Gilded age was the period where things started to get better after the civil war. In this period, paper money was established as well as pentions. The gilded age means "golden Age" which means the time we grew in wealth. Republicans took over this era. The populist party was formed and had risen during this era. During this era the protective tarrifs were formed.
Kathleen Gobin & Michelle Ganpat: Chap:23
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS
1. Was General Grant good presidential material? Why did he win? No he wasn't because he had no political experience. He was just a great soldier.
2. "The Man in the Moon...had to hold his nose when passing over America." Explain. Financially in our government there were a lot of lies and sleazy business going on and politicians were not honest.
3. Describe two major scandals that directly involved the Grant administration. The Credit Mobilier, a railroad construction company that paid itself huge sums of money for small railroad construction, tarred Grant. the Whiskey Ring had robbed the Treasury of millions of dollars, and when Grant’s own private secretary was shown to be one of the criminals, Grant retracted his earlier statement of “Let no guilty man escape.”
4. Why did Liberal Republicans nominate Horace Greeley for the presidency in 1872? Why was he a less than ideal candidate? He was dogmatic and the Democratic Party supported him. He also wanted to end Reconstruction. He wasn't ideal because he was an editor of the New York Tribune.
5. Why did some people want greenbacks and silver dollars? Why did others oppose these kinds of currency? "Cheap-money" people felt that more money meant cheaper money and this would mean rising prices and easier-to-pay debts. "Hard-money" people, the ones who wanted gold and silver, said greenbacks value had depreciated due to mistrust and legality issues.
6. Why was there such fierce competition between Democrats and Republicans in the Gilded Age if the parties agreed on most economic issues? Republicans traced their lineage to Puritanism. Democrats were more like Lutherans and Roman Catholics and Democrats had strong support in the South.
7. Why were the results of the 1876 election in doubt? It was really close because Tilden got 184 votes when he needed 185 for the Electoral College. However, Louisiana, South Carolina, Florida, and some parts of Oregon were unsure and hadn't come to an agreement.
8. How did the end of Reconstruction affect African-Americans? The Compromise of 1877 abandoned the Blacks in the South by withdrawing troops, and their last attempt at protection of Black rights was the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which was mostly declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the 1883 Civil Rights cases.
9. Analyze the data in the lynching chart on page 513.
10. What was the significance of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877? It exposed the weakness of the labor movement.
Kathleen Gobin & Michelle Ganpat...continued...
11. What new type of corruption resulted from the Pendleton Act? It partially divided politics from patronage, but it drove politicians into “marriages of convenience” with business leaders.
12. Why did most Chinese immigrants come to America? Most of the male Chinese came to work on the railroads.
13. Explain how character played a part in the presidential election of 1884. There was a lot of mudslinging, politicians making comments about race, faith, and patriotism.
14. Assess the following statement: "As president, Grover Cleveland governed as his previous record as governor indicated he would." He had said though the people support the government the government should not support the people.
15. What were the reasons behind Cleveland's stance in favor of lower tariffs? It meant lower prices for consumers and less protection for monopolies.
16. Explain why the tariff was detrimental to American farmers. Farmers invest their time and money in growing and producing crops which are sold to local markets. That's where they receive their income.
17. What was the most revolutionary aspect of the Populist platform? Defend your answer with evidence. An epidemic of nationwide strikes in the summer of 1892 raised the prospect that the Populists could weld together angered farmers. They nominated General James B. Weaver at the presidential candidate.
18. What could Cleveland have done to lessen the impact of the financial turmoil? Not have lower tariffs.
19. Is the characterization of the Gilded Age presidents as the “forgettable presidents” a fair one? Explain. These presidents ultimately sent our economy downhill and caused a lot of destruction with their greediness.
20. Were the Populists romanticized, or were they truly “authentic reformers with genuine grievances?” They grieved because they were suffering and losing money.
Kathleen Gobin & Michelle Ganpat: Chapter 26: #1-10
The Clash of Cultures on the Plain
Know: Indian Territory, Sioux, Great Sioux Reservation, Tenth Cavalry
44. Describe the effect of westward expansion on Native Americans.
The Indians were basically stuck in the middle and caught "the White man's diseases". They turned against each other and battled to hunt whatever bison still remained. The Sioux, displaced by Chippewas from the their ancestral lands at the headwaters of the Mississippi in the late 1700s, expanded at the expense of the Crows, Kiowas, and Pawnees, and justified their actions by reasoning that White men had done the same thing to them.
Receding Native Americans
Know: George Armstrong Custer, Bozeman Trail, Sitting Bull, Battle of Little Big Horn, Chief Joseph, Geronimo
45. How was the West "won?"
The Indians were forced to the railroad, which cut through the heart of the West, the White man’s diseases, the extermination of the buffalo, wars, and the loss of their land to White settlement.
Bellowing Herds of Bison
Know: Buffalo Bill Cody
46. How were the Buffalo reduced from 15 million to less than a thousand?
Many people killed the buffalo for their meat, skin or tongue. Others didn't use the body completely seeing as they only needed one part of the whole body.
The End of the Trail
Know: Helen Hunt Jackson, Ghost Dance, Battle of Wounded Knee, Dawes Act, Carlisle Indian School, Indian Reorganization Act
47. What did the government do to try to assimilate Native Americans?
They had the Indian Reorganization Act which helped the Indian population rebound and grow.
Mining: From Dishpan to Ore Breaker
Know: Pike's Peak, Comstock Lode, Silver Senators
48. How did the discovery of precious metals affect the American West?
Smaller “lucky strikes” also drew money-lovers to Montana, Idaho, and other western states. Anarchy in these outposts seemed to rule, but in the end, what was left were usually ghost towns.
After the surface gold was found, ore-breaking machinery was brought in to break the gold-bearing quartz (which was very expensive to do).
Kathleen Gobin & Michelle Ganpat: Chapter 26: continued...
Makers of America: The Plains Indians
49. How was the cu1lture of the Plains Indians shaped by white people?
They were still able to preserve much of their ancestral history and traditions. The Spanish conquistadores introduced them to horses.
Beef Bonanzas and the Long Drive
Know: Long Drive, Wild Bill Hickok
50. Why was cattle ranching so profitable in the 1870's?
The railroads made the cattle herding business prosper, but it also destroyed it, for the railroads also brought sheepherders and homesteaders who built barbed-wire, invented by Samuel Glidden, fences that erased the open-range days of the long cattle drives.
The Farmers’ Frontier
Know: Homestead Act, Great American Desert, John Wesley Powell, Joseph F. Glidden
51. Did the Homestead Act live up to its purpose of giving small farmers a descent life on the plains?
Fraud was spawned by the Homestead Act, since almost ten times as much land ended up in the hands of land-grabbing promoters than in the hands of real farmers.
The Far West Comes of Age
Know: Boomers, Sooners, 1890, Frederick Jackson Turner, Yellowstone
52. What were some milestones in the “closing” of the West?
The population had increased greatly and Yellowstone opened in 1872.
The Fading Frontier
Know: Francis Parkman, George Catlin, Frederic Remington
53. What effects has the frontier had on the development of the United States?
Huge population increase, opportunities for immigrants, and many acres of land.
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