Weekly Post 1-30

APUSH 
We will begin Period VII (1890-1945) this week, starting with Progressives. There is a project to introduce and vocabulary to study. Find Vocabulary under Progressivism tab (1-45). Vocabulary Quiz Friday, 2-3. Begin reading at Chapter 28

US History
We will finish Unit 8 early this week. Notebook check Monday, Test Tuesday, RAFTS Project due Wednesday. We will begin February by studying Black History in America. Vocabulary below, Quiz Friday.
               Black History- Vocabulary I

1.      Atlanta Compromise

2.      Disenfranchisement

3.      Great Migration

4.      Ku Klux Klan

5.      Morehouse College

6.      NAACP

7.      Poll taxes

8.      Red Summer

9.      Talented Tenth

10.  Tuskegee Institute

Weekly Post 1-23

APUSH
We will finish Period VI this week by discussing the beginning of US imperialism. We have a Reading Quiz today and our first test Friday, 1-27. Also, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee homework is due for a minor grade.

US History
We will finish Unit 8 notes this week for a test next Tuesday January 31st. We will have a vocabulary quiz and notebook check Friday, 1-27.

US HISTORY COMMON ASSESSMENT VIII

STUDY GUIDE

1. Describe differences in old immigrants (pre-Civil War) and new immigrants (post-Civil War)
2. Describe American cities between 1890 and 1930
3. Describe immigration to the United States during the last two decades of the 19^th century
4. Why did immigration to the United States from Asia between 1882 and 1900 decline?
5. The nativist sentiments were embodied in law by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
6. Nativists who opposed allowing immigrants into the country were hypocrites because they themselves had humble, foreign origins.
7. Why did many labor leaders object to immigrants coming to the United States?
8. The intent of the Dawes Act
9. The violent conflict during the second half of the 19th century between the United States and American Indians was most influenced by what?
10. During the late 19th century, western Native American life was most affected by what?   
11. Major effects of the Industrial Revolution of the late 19^th century in the United States
12. Which labor organizations endorsed non-violent unionism by concentrating on demands for higher wages, shorter hours, and improved working conditions?
13.  Commonality in the railroad strike of 1877, the Haymarket Affair of 1886, and Pullman Strike of 1894
14. Military force and court injunctions were used against the workers to help end the strikes.
15. Jim Crow laws?     
16. In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled what about racial segregation in public facilities?

US History- Immigration

Weekly Post 1-16

APUSH

The Businessmen Chart and Immigration assignments are due Tuesday. We will be talking about Life in the American West in the late 19th Century. Begin reading Chapters 25-27. We will have a Reading Quiz January 23rd.Tentatively, our first test on Period VI is Friday January 27th. Also, bring your textbook (The American Pageant, 12th edition) to class on Wednesday

US History

RAFTS assignments are due Tuesday. We will begin Unit 8, Urbanization and Oppression. Begin studying this week's vocabulary below:

1.      American Federation of Labor

2.      Ellis Island

3.      Jim Crow

 4.      Nativism

5.      Oppression

6.      Pullman strike

7.      Plessy v. Ferguson

8.      Samuel Gompers

9.      Sitting Bull

10.  Wounded Knee

Weekly Post 1-9

APUSH
We will continue Period VI this week, including political cartoon analysis and a study of "how the other half live." We have Ch 23-24 Reading Quiz Thursday and Period VI People Vocabulary Quiz Friday. Also, make sure winter homework, APUSH contract, and Gospel of Wealth Analysis have been turned in.

US History
We will finish and test on GPS SSUSH 11 this week. We have a vocabulary quiz and notebook check Thursday and a Multiple Choice Test Friday. The unit project (RAFTS) will be due Tuesday, January 17.

US HISTORY COMMON ASSESSMENT VII STUDY GUIDE

US HISTORY

US HISTORY COMMON ASSESSMENT VII

STUDY GUIDE

1.      Define gilded age

2.      Why was the US flourishing following the US Civil War?

3.      Define horizontal integration

4.      Who started horizontal integration?

5.      What finally connect east and west United States in May, 1869?

6.      Effects of Transcontinental Railroad 

7.   Define Homestead Act of 1862

8.      Which population trend occurred in the U.S. from 1860 to 1920?

9.      Role of government in western settlement

10.  Define laissez-faire capitalism

11.  Define “robber baron”

12.  Describe philanthropy of John D. Rockefeller    

¸ "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

¸ “I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."

¸ “The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.”

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

Weekly Post 1-2

APUSH
We will begin Period VI 1865-1898. Contracts Due January 6. Begin reading textbook Ch 23-24 for a Reading Quiz Thursday, January 12. The first vocabulary quiz is Friday, January 13.

US HISTORY
We will review themes from first semester including high-level questioning, vocabulary, and academic organization. We will then begin Unit 6. Remember the importance of doing well early.


ALL
Remember final credit calculation:
First semester 40%
Second semester 40%
EOC Assessment 20%