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?