Tuesday, February 6, 2018

2-6-18 "Gilded Age"

Questions: Chapter 14 & 15

Key Terms:
Corporations
Monopolies
Trusts
Social Darwinism
Vertical Integration
Horizontal Integration
Captains of Industry
Robber Barons
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie

J.P. Morgan


Key Terms:
Laissez-Faire
Sherman Antitrust Act
Labor Unions - 3 Main Concerns
Knights of Labor
Tools of Oppressed Workers
Collective Bargaining
Boycotts
Strikes
American Federation of Labor
Major Strikes
Great Railroad Strike
Haymarket Square Riot
Homestead Strike
Tactics used by Owners
Blacklists
Injunctions
Scabs, Replacements
Eugene V. Debs
Socialist Party

Mother Mary Harris Jones

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Day 3 "The West"

Key Terms:
Farmers' Hardships
The Grange
Munn v. Illinois
Wabash v. Illinois
Farmers' Alliances
Money Supply Issue
Populist Party
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Panic of 1893
Election of 1896
William Jennings Bryan
Frederick Jackson Turner

Key Terms:
Settlers of the West:
-Easterners
-Former Slaves (Exodusters)
-Immigrants
--Irish, Scandinavians, Germans, Russians, Chinese

Challenges of Farming:
-Climate
-Access to Water - Windmills, Irrigation
-Lack of lumber - Soddies

Bonanza Farming

Link to Flash Cards - The West

Link to Wizard of Oz Article

Link to Quizlet Set on Chapters 13 & 15 - The West

Friday, January 26, 2018

Day 2 "The West"

Key Terms and Concepts:
-Groups that settled the West
-Pacific Railway Act
-Homestead Act
-Morrill Land Grant Act
-US Indian Policy after the Civil War
-Dawes Act
-"Americanization or Death"
-"Boom and Bust"
-Cowboys & Ranchers

Read Sections 1 & 2 of Chapter 13

Westward Expansion and Plight of Native Americans Slideshow

The American West - Episode 4

Sources of Conflict Activity - Identify 5 sources of conflict between the Plains Indians and the Federal Government.