Friday, March 24, 2017

MONDAY--APRIL 3

EQ:
Why did the US become an imperialist power in the late 19th century?
What were the impacts of America's new approach to foreign nations?

CW:
history of U.S. military engagements up to the Spanish-American War
discussion: What role should the U.S. have in global affairs?
notes: roots of American imperialism
annexation of Hawaii--1898
18:2 notes--Spanish-American War (1898)
video clip from The Roosevelts DVD (1:21:00--1:35:38)--covers the S-A War in Cuba
Treaty of Paris--1898
notes: the Philippines War (1899--1902)
water cure
Why did some US soldiers treat Filipinos with brutality? (small group activity)
compose a paragraph answering the above question


HW:
Read
pp. 562-63: Open Door Notes in China and Boxer Rebellion
p. 566--TR and the Panama Canal
p. 568--Roosevelt Corollary

Thursday, March 23, 2017

FRIDAY

EQ:
How did the belief in Manifest Destiny impact settlers and Native Americans?

CW:
Clash of Cultures on the Frontier:
Map of major tribes of the West 
Homestead Act of 1862
Sand Creek Massacre--Nov. 1864--video clip from The West--DVD (1:07:48--1:16:00)
letters from Capt. Silas Soule and Lt. Joseph Cramer
buffalo slaughter 
Battle of Little Bighorn--1876
George Armstrong Custer 
1887--Dawes Act
video clips from (The West--Episode 8--24:25---41:30)
Ghost Dance
Wounded Knee Massacre--1890
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Native American issues in the present day:
Life on Indian reservations today
Proud to Be
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Frontier House 

HW:
Read pp. 548--51
Know the four reasons for US imperialism
Why did the US want Hawaii?

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

THURSDAY

EQ:
How did the belief in Manifest Destiny impact white settlers and Native Americans?

CW:
return/discuss Unit 2 exam
preview Unit 3/ Unit 3 study guide
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origins of Manifest Destiny (primary source analysis)
quick recap of the early years of westward expansion
OR Trail; Mexican-American War (1846-47); Donner Party; Transcontinental RR
notes: Homestead Act of 1862
video clips: Frontier House

HW:
read pp. 410--14 (stop at Cattle Becomes a Big Business)
REVIEW NOTES

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

WEDNESDAY

EQ:



CW:
Unit 2 exam



HW:
Read pp. 420--21 

Monday, March 20, 2017

TUESDAY

EQ:
How successful were Progressives at reforming the United States economically, socially, and politically?

CW:
Bad Romance Parody
Comstock Law
Margaret Sanger primary sources (pink packet)
on family planning
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major policies of Teddy Roosevelt (1901-08)
presidency as a Bully Pulpit: (6:00--17:00)
antitrust laws in the Progressive Era
"trustbuster"
TRUSTBUSTING!
muckrakers:
Lewis Hine and Upton Sinclair
Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act
chicken farming today

pink slime
video clips:
TR and conservation
TR and the Brownsville riot 
William H. Taft (1908-12)
Taft harms TR's legacy
1912 presidential election: TR's New Nationalism (Bull Moose Party) vs. Woodrow Wilson's (Democrat) New Freedom (handout)
Progressive Era Amendments:
16th, 17th and 18th Amendments
ESSAY PREP and review

HW:
STUDY FOR UNIT 2 EXAM

Friday, March 17, 2017

MONDAY

EQ:
How successful were Progressives at reforming the United States economically, socially, and politically?

CW:
discuss: What reforms would you make at Tigard High School?
discuss: economic and social problems of the US at the turn of the century
origins of the Progressive movement: Who? When? Why?
discussion on Progressive political reforms (initiative, referendum, recall)
ballot measures--Nov 2016
TTSD school bond measure
primary source analysis: Lewis Hine's photos of child workers (filing cabinet)
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origins of the women's rights movement from the mid-19th century
suffrage and the fight for family planning:
anti-suffrage arguments--primary source handout; anti-suffrage postcards
the fight for women's suffrage
video clips from Iron Jawed Angels--Silent Sentinels and Alice Paul's hunger strike
Bad Romance parody
Comstock Law
Margaret Sanger primary source on family planning

HW:
Read 525--trustbusting
p. 526--Railroad regulation; Health and the Environment--Meat Inspection Act
p. 528--Pure Food and Drug Act; efforts to protect the environment
REVIEW NOTES
REVIEW YOUR NOTES

Thursday, March 16, 2017

FRIDAY

EQ:
What factors led to an increase in immigration to the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
How has nativism impacted American political and social life in the past and the present?

CW:
brief overview of life in urban America at the turn of the century
notes: history of American imimigration--PPT
examination of documents related to the nativist response
Rep. Steve King's comments on immigration
video clip: illegal immigration and its economic impact--clip from VHS tape
VICE story from HBO on Alabama's crackdown on illegal immigration
Senator McCain: complete the 'dang' fence ad
video clip: Donald Trump's comments about Mexican immigrants from June 2015
clip of Jorge Ramos interview with Ann Coulter
perils of crossing the border: Bodies on the Border
Jose Vargas--Define American
small group discussion on illegal immigration---->large class discussion

HW:
Read pp.  512-15
516: Protecting Children
518: entire page

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

THURSDAY

EQ:
How were the social and political advancements of African Americans eradicated in the Jim Crow South?


CW:
Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk--"double consciousness"
Trayvon Martin case--2012
President Obama speaks out on Trayvon Martin--July 2013
video clip--President Obama speaks out on the Trayvon Martin case
racial stereotyping
code switch
Key and Peele clip
Jim Crow docs--HELPFUL FOR ESSAY #1!!
Supreme Court upholds Jim Crow: Plessy decision
video clip from Many Rivers
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informal rules between whites and blacks in the US
racial violence against African Americans--lynching
race riots: Chicago and Tulsa, OK
video clip from Many Rivers
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convict leasing in the South--video clip from Slavery by Another Name
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video clip from Many Rivers: racist imagery of Jim Crow

HW:
Read pp. 460-65
factors that brought immigrants to the US
Ellis Island; Angel Island
nativism
anti-Asian sentiment
Chinese Exclusion Act--1882 

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

WEDNESDAY

EQ:
What were the competing visions for racial equality offered by Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois?

CW:
labor union simulation (con't)
wealth inequality in America today
notes: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire--video clip
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educational gains for African Americans: (primary source docs)
Booker T. Washington's vision for African Americans--Atlanta Compromise address--1895
W.E.B. DuBois' vision for AAs: talented tenth; liberal arts education
video clip: Du Bois (from Many Rivers)
The Souls of Black Folk--"double consciousness"
Trayvon Martin case--2012
President Obama speaks out on Trayvon Martin--July 2013
video clip--President Obama speaks out on the Trayvon Martin case
racial stereotyping
code switch
Key and Peele clip
K/P: phone call
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HW:
LYNCHING READING

Monday, March 13, 2017

TUESDAY

EQ:
How did workers/labor organize to  fight against the power of big business?


CW:
income inequality today 
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notes
world of work in the late 19th century
labor union terms/tactics
groups meet for labor unrest presentations
groups present
college athletes attempt to unionize
labor union simulation


HW:
Read pp. 491-95
Booker T. Washington; Tuskegee; W.E.B. DuBois
voting restrictions on African Americans; Jim Crow laws
Plessy v. Ferguson

Friday, March 10, 2017

MONDAY

EQ:
1. What factors led to the creation of big business in the late 1800s?
2. Why is this era known as the Gilded Age?


CW:
return old work/Unit 1 exam
preview Unit 2
Unit 2 Study Guide
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notes:
America becomes an industrial power:
abundant natural resources
wave of new innovations
transcontinental RR completed in 1869
Rise of Big Business in the Gilded Age
handout: Robber Baron or Capt. of Industry
income inequality today


HW:
small group research project--MUST BE PRESENT TO GET INFORMATION

Thursday, March 09, 2017

FRIDAY

EQ:



CW:
UNIT 1 EXAM


HW:
Read pp. 447-450 (stop at Labor Unions Emerge)
Andrew Carnegie
vertical integration
horizontal integration
Social Darwinism
John D. Rockefeller 

THURSDAY

EQ:


CW:
ESSAY PREP/REVIEW DAY


HQ:
STUDY

Tuesday, March 07, 2017

WEDNESDAY

EQ:
To what extent was Reconstruction successful in helping ex-slaves achieve social, political, and economic rights post-Civil War?

CW:
Reconstruction notes quiz
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Reconstruction Amendments activity
Reconstruction: 1872--77:
Amnesty Act of 1872
Financial Panic of 1873 and its impact on Northern support for Reconstruction
(video clip from Reconstruction DVD)
Election of 1876
Hamburg Massacre in South Carolina
Compromise of 1877 and home rule for the South
Supreme Court rules against Reconstruction
Redeemers and "the Lost Cause"


HW:
STUDY FOR UNIT EXAM
ESSAY PREP

Monday, March 06, 2017

TUESDAY

EQ:
To what extent was Reconstruction successful in helping ex-slaves achieve social, political, and economic rights post-Civil War?

CW:
video clip from Many Rivers--land ownership on Edisto Island, SC
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primary source analysis: Radical Reconstruction vs. Presidential Reconstruction
Congressional/Radical Reconstruction (1866-73)
Freedmen's Bureau
1866:
Ku Klux Klan formed in Pulaski, TN-video clip from Reconstruction DVD
Civil Rights Act of 1866
1867
Reconstruction Act of 1867
1867--President Johnson impeached
1868:
14th Amendment ratified--1868
U.S. Grant wins the presidency
sharecropping contract--"slavery without the whip
Klan Enforcement Acts
1870--15th Amendment ratified
small group activity: analysis of the Reconstruction Amendments
video clip from Many Rivers on the impact on the 15th Amendment

HW:
Read pp. 397-401
Panic of 1873--impact on Reconstruction?
Supreme Court rules against Reconstruction
Northern support
Election of 1876
home rule
Compromise of 1877
REVIEW NOTES!

Friday, March 03, 2017

MONDAY

EQ:
1. How do we deal with the legacy of the Civil War today?
2. What was Reconstruction and to what extent was Reconstruction a success in giving ex-slaves full American citizenship?


CW:
small group discussion sheet
Yale renames Calhoun College 
window at Calhoun College
Images of Dylann Roof
Southerners discuss the meaning of the Confederate flag
Larry Wilmore clip from June 22--For the Record (begin 44 seconds in)

Bree Newsome removes the flag
removal of the flag from the Statehouse grounds
clip from Chelsea Handler Does.. Netflix on race and the Civil War
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Reconstruction discussion activity-small groups 
video clip: meeting between Garrison Frazier, Gen. Sherman, and Sec. of War Stanton
notes: Presidential Reconstruction under Lincoln and Johnson(1865-66):
Dec. 1863: Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction--10 Percent Plan
video clips: Presidential Reconstruction; black codes
Dec. 1865--13th Amendment ratified  

HW:
Read pp. 387--92
New won freedoms
Education
Sharecropping

Thursday, March 02, 2017

FRIDAY

EQ:
What factors/events led to Union victory in the Civil War?


CW:
Nov. 1863: the Gettysburg Address
1864:
Andersonville Prison; clip from The Civil War
Ft. Pillow Massacre
Nov-Dec. Sherman's March to the Sea
Presidential Election of 1864
1865:
April 9, 1865--Lee surrenders to Grant
the plot to assassinate President Lincoln
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Remembering Slavery/Reconstruction discussion activity-small groups
Georgetown admission for ancestors of slaves 
Why America Needs a Slavery Museum

HW:
Read pp. 376-82
Lincoln's 10 % Plan
President Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction
Freedmen's Bureau
black codes
Reconstruction Act of 1867
President Johnson impeached 

Wednesday, March 01, 2017

THURSDAY

EQ:
What factors/events led to Union victory in the Civil War?
How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the goal of the war?

CW:
battlefield medicine/healthcare 
Under the Knife reading
video clips:
Dances With Wolves (surgery scene)
CASH unit in Iraq
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clip from Many Rivers:
Robert Smalls' daring escape from slavery
Emancipation Proclamation--1863
impact of African American soldiers
scenes from "Glory"
1863:
July 1-3: Battle of Gettysburg
May--July 4: Vicksburg
July 13-16: NYC Draft Riots; controversy over the draft
Nov. 1863: Lincoln gives the Gettysburg Address http://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/television/100000002546687/colbert-recites-the-gettysburg-address.html .


HW:
Read pp. 362-64
Focus points
Ulysses S. Grant
William Tecumseh Sherman
Sherman's March
Election of 1864
Surrender at Appomattox