HW Assignments Week of 2/12/18

Hello, All:

Here are your HW assignments for the week of 2/12/18.  Please be mindful of due dates.  It should be noted that students who choose not to complete their assignments by the due dates will receive a grade of 55.  Late work will only be accepted in the case of a LEGAL absence from school.

MONDAY NIGHT: 
1.  Watch John Green (Crash Course), "Growth Cities and Immigration." 
2.  Read pp. 482-487 in The Americans.  If you would prefer a hard copy of the book, please do not hesitate to ask.  You are more than welcome to borrow one! 
3. Answer the questions on the FIRST PAGE of the GRQ's that correspond to this textbook, and chapter section 

TUESDAY: 
1. Read pp. 488-491, "Expanding Public Education."  
2. Complete the questions on pp. 2-3 of the GRQ packet.  

WEDNESDAY: 
1. Read pp. 492-495, "Segregation and Discrimination."  
2. Complete the questions on p. 4 of the GRQ packet 

THURSDAY: 
1.  Read pp. 498-503
2.  Complete the questions on p. 5 of the GRQ packet. 

NOTE:  IN CLASS EXAM ON THURSDAY, covering chapter 24 and 25 of The American Pageant.  

• 50 questions
• 30 multiple choice 
• 20 matching
• IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT YOU COMPLETE THE MULTIPLE CHOICE IN PENCIL. 

STUFF TO KNOW FOR THE TEST (aka "Study Guide") 

• Vocab Terms - Chapter 24 (10 will be selected from Ch. 24)
• Vocab Terms - Chapter 25  (10 will be selected from Ch. 25) 
• Multiple Choice
• How The federal government contributed to the building of the national rail network
• Where large share of $ used to finance Industrialization came from (the individual)
• How the railroad  stimulated American industrialization 
• Why public was opposed to RR barons
• How RR's affected time
• Importance of the Interstate Commerce Act
• Inventions that drew women out of the home, and into the workplace
• Vertical Integration: What was it? 
• How trusts justified their control of the eco
• What oil was first used for in the 1800s
• The Gospel of Wealth
• Why attempts to create the "New South" failed
• What Industrialization meant for American Workers
• Difference between AFL and Knights of Labor 
• Symbol of the new city's, "glittering economy" 
• problems generated by the rise of cities and the urban American life-style was 
• technical developments of the late nineteenth century that contributed to the spectacular growth of American cities
• Countries from which many of the “New Immigrants” came
• factors driving European peasants from their homeland to America
• Goals of Hull House reformers
• immigrant group that was totally banned from America after 1882
• religious groups that grew most dramatically because of the “New Immigration”
• “Social Gospel”
• Belief of urban planners, such as Daniel Burnham
• Difference between Booker T. Washington/W.E.B. DuBois
• What American colleges benefitted from in the late 19th Century
• What Henry George and Edward Bellamy advocated 
• Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Jack London; what they wrote about...Effect on American literature.