Wednesday 9-30-15

We will finish up our study of US Imperialism

We will be finishing up our essays that we started on last week.

Tomorrow we will have a test to see how much we have learned.

Link to Flash Cards

Link to Vocabulary Worksheet for Chapter 17.

Tuesday 9-29-15

Today we will continue with our study of US Imperialism

Key Terms:
-Panama Canal
     Popular Palindrome:  A MAN A PLAN A CANAL PANAMA
   -Panamanian Revolution
   -T.R.'s Greatest Accomplishment

-Roosevelt Corollary
   -"Big Stick Policy"

-Great White Fleet

-Dollar Diplomacy

-Mexican Revolution
   -US Intervention
   -Pancho Villa
   -John J. Pershing


Link to Video about the Decade of the 1900s.

Link to Rough Riders Questions.

Monday 9-28-15

Use the following link to answer the questions assigned to the group.

U.S. Imperialism

Alaska
-From Russia 1867 - $7.2M
-Seward's Folly

Hawaii
-Missionaries-> Sugar Planters
-Hawaiian League
   -Bayonet Constitution
-Queen Liliuokalani
-Sanford B. Dole
-Annexed by US in 1898
   -William McKinley

China
-Opened by Great Britain in 1870s
-Spheres of Influence
-Open Door Policy
   -Sec. of State John Hay
-Boxer Rebellion

Japan
-Matthew Perry opened up in 1853
-Japan industrialization->Modernization
-Militarization
-Russo-Japanese War - 1904
   -Nobel Peace Prize for T. Roosevelt

Spanish-American War
-Cuba Libre Causes
   -Jose Marti
   -Gen. "Butcher" Weyler
     -"Reconcentracion"
-Yellow Journalism
   -Wm Randolph Hearst
   -Joseph Pulitzer
-Key Triggers
   -USS Maine explosion
     -"Remember the Maine"
   -DeLome Letter
-T.R.'s Role
2 Scenes of Action
-Philippines
   -Admiral George Dewey
   -Emilio Aguinaldo*
-Cuba
   -Theodore Roosevelt
   -Rough Riders
   -Buffalo Soldiers
     -John J. "Black Jack" Pershing

Splendid Little War
-Treaty of Paris 1898
   -Cuba becomes a US Protectorate
     -Platt Amendment
   -US Acquires:
     -Puerto Rico
     -Guam
     -American Samoa

-What to do with the Philippines?

-Philippine-American War

Link to Imperialism Activity

Thursday 9-24-15

We will be continuing with Imperialism today.

Link to Imperialism Vocab sheet.

Wednesday 9-23-15

Today we will begin our study of US Imperialism at the turn of the 20th Century.

We will begin with reviewing and learning some important vocabulary terms:
Imperialism
Social Darwinism
Anglo-Saxon Superiority
Jingoism
Yellow Journalism
Cuban Insurrection
USS Maine
Spanish American War


Link to Imperialism Slideshow

Link to USS Maine Explosion Documents

Link to Why Invade Cuba Documents


Writing Prompt for today:
After reading primary and secondary sources related to US Imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, write an essay in which you examine causes of United States Imperialism and explain the effects on the United States as well as on other countries around the world.  Support your discussion with evidence from the texts.

Monday 9-21-15

Link to Progressive Video

Thursday 9-17-15

EQ:  What were the sacrifices that women made to help bring about ratification of the 19th Amendment?

Today you will be watching a movie entitled "Iron Jawed Angels" about the women's suffrage movement.

As you watch the movie, there are several questions that I want you to ponder:

Directions: Answer the following questions in complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper.

1. What is your reaction to what happened at the parade? Was it a good or bad thing? Explain.
2. Respond to the quote: “Those in power should be held responsible not only for what they do but for what they do not do.”
3. What does Alice Paul decide to do when NAWSA leaders basically call her a thief? Why is this important?
4. Why does Alice go home after what happened to Inez? Why does Alice feel so bad about her death?
5. Would you have picketed even though the country was at war? Why or why not? Thoroughly explain your position.
6. Why did Alice Paul go on a hunger strike? Why did the prison respond by bringing her to the mental ward to speak to a doctor?
7. What does the prison start doing to Alice when her followers join her in the hunger strike? What is your reaction to this?
8. What happens when the news that force feeding has been going on in the prison gets to the papers and the public? What happens to the suffragettes once the news got out? What is President Wilson’s reaction?
9. From the Seneca Falls Convention to when the amendment was put in the Constitution, how long did it take for women to get the vote?  Were you surprised by the tactics used by the government to try to silence the suffragettes? Why or why not?
10. What is your reaction to the movie as a whole? What happened to the arrests of the suffragettes? Is this justice?

Wednesday 9-16-15

EQ: Was the drinking of alcohol really a serious issue in the late 1800s?


Link to Prohibition


Progressive Era Articles
Conservation and National Parks

How Women Won The Right To Vote

Panic of 1907 and the Federal Reserve Act

Progressives and Trust Busting

Pullman Strike and Eugene V. Debs

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

Tuesday 9-15-15

We are continuing our study of the Progressive Era.

EQ: Were the Progressives successful in making government more responsive to the needs of the people?

Continue with Slideshow

Link to Crash Course:  Progressive Presidents

Link to Progressive Era Questions

Friday 9-11-15

EQ:  How was the McKinley assassination a turning point in American History?

Link to Murder at the Fair discussion questions

Link to Progressive Era Flash Cards

Thursday 9-10-15

Today we will begin our study of the next unit of study called The Progressive Era

Henry George and August Spies Excerpts

Progressive Era Slideshow

Wednesday 9-9-15

First Test!

Link to Gilded Age Test

Tuesday 9-8-15

EQ:  What do I know about the Gilded Age?

Today, we will review for our test tomorrow.

Gilded Age Flash Cards

Then we will review with a game of Jeopardy!!

9-3

Links to an online textbook resource covering the Gilded Age Years 1870-1900.

The Expansion of Industry

The Age of Railroads

Big Business and Labor

The New Immigrants

The Challenges of Urbanization

Politics in the Gilded Age

Science and Urban Life

Expanding Public Education

Segregation and Discrimination

The Dawn of Mass Culture

9-1 and 9-2

We will be taking a close look at immigration with a movie entitled "Far and Away"

It is about two immigrants from Ireland who come to the US for a better, modern way of life.  This movie portrays many of the concepts that we will be covering in the Gilded Age.

Link to Far & Away Quiz