WEDNESDAY

US History
EQ:
What were the political, social, and economic effects of industrialization and immigration in the late 1800s?

CW:
notes: Rise of Big Business in the Gilded Age
handout: Robber Baron or Capt. of Industry?
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What is a labor union?
small group research project:
link for all of the labor unrest is here
Great Strike of 1877
Haymarket Square Riot--1886
Homestead Strike--1892
Pullman Strike--1894
Ludlow Massacre--1914

HW:
Ch. 16 RG/Hellhounds reading
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Honors US History
EQ:
What were the political and social effects of westward expansion in the mid-1800s?

CW:
notes: Manifest Destiny
Donner Party video clip (TBD)
Mormons
election of 1844: James K. Polk vs. Henry Clay
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notes: Mexican-American War--1846-47
Map of the War
video clip: statehood debate over California (from The Abolitionists)

HW:
Text pp. 385-91
Pay attention to the Fugitive Slave Act, Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown, Dred Scott decision