Monday:

WWI Extra Credit- 10 points

who fought

dates

where was the battle

casualties

who won

why was the first battle significant 

be sure to include maps pictures and your sources

WWI part I objectives:

Great Britain, Italy, Ireland, Russia, Japan ......these are the ally powers

Kaiser Wilhelm- Germany

Characteristics of Europe

Very nationalistic

willing to go to war to protect interest and national honor

industrialization was occurring 

population was increasing

people were moving from rural area...................

many people were in poverty

due to poverty, many turned to labor unions and socialism 

countries competed with one another for markets raw materials and colonies

countries also traded a lot with each other

imperialism became common

alliance developed 

triple alliance

Germany Austria hungry and Italy

major causes of WWI(thses causes had been happening for like 50 years):

• militarism
• imperialism
• nationalism
• economic competition
• alliance

Tuesday:

economic competition:

great Britain, France and Germany were competing worldwide for colonies................

alliance:

if countries are forming alliances, what does that say about the world-----the world is close to breaking out war

Powderkeg:

• is in south eastern Europe
• or by Greece
• they called it this because there was something between these countries that was going to explode
• all the different ethnic groups did not like each other

Austria-Hungry:

• it was a multi-national, dual monarchy
• dual monarchy-----two kings
• multi-national-----------many nationalities
• it had 11 major ethnic groups
• Austria and Hungarians were the two largest
• both made up less than 50% of the population
• many different languages, religions and customs
• the government hated nationalism

The government despised Serbians and Serbia

the Serbian menace

Serbia wanted to make the Serbians living in Austria-hungry, part of a greater Serbia

the black hand was created in Serbia 

secret organization whose goal it was to unite all Serbs by any means necessary

the assassination started the war

Chain of Event:

• assassination 
• Austria-hungry sends ultimatum to Serbia
• Serbia refuses to accept ultimatum
• Austria-hungry declares war on Serbia

WWI War Goals:

• at first there wasn't any goals
• then they said they wanted land

France wanted:

• land
• resources
• cripple Germany military

great Britain:

• land

Italy:

• land

Russia:

• control
• land

Austria-Hungry:

• they wanted to survive the war as a nation

Germany:

• land
• western Russia
• take over colonies

United States:

• win

end war

Wednesday:

• Study day for Semester Test

Thursday:

three types of trenches:

• Front line
• support
• reserve
• no man's land(this was land between the trenches)

Friday:

Neutrality:

• president Woodrow Wilson declared that the us was to be neutral when WWI broke out
• impartial int thought as well as in action
• neutrality was successful.........

1916 election:

• Woodrow Wilson incumbent(democrat)
• Charles Evans Hughes(republican)
• Wilson won
• platform was: he kept us out of war

Causes for us involvement in WWI:

• great Britain and Germany were both stopping us ships
• eventually us drew closer to war and the allies
• German sinking of Britain ships and killing of us citizens
• Germany declared unrestricted submarine warfare

Sussex Pledge:

• Wilson to Germany said end the attack or unarmed ships or risk the severing of diplomatic relations
• Germany responds on may 4, 1916 with the Sussex pledge, Germany submarine policy
• end the sinking of passengers ships
• search merchant ships for contraband and make provisions for passengers and crews before

minor causes for us involvement:

beliefs of war hawks:

• teddy Roosevelt

Trade with England increased:

• trade with Germany decreased as years went on
• $3 billion in 1916 with England

British and American propaganda:

Preparedness program 1915:

• us started arming and preparing for war

American Business:

• munitions business pushed us into war to make money

Monday- no school

Tuesday- 

Dollar Diplomacy- President Taft:

• using the us government to guarantee loans to foreign countries by us banks and business ---- instead of taking over a country by military, we own it by having lots of money in that country within business. We too it over by money, so we own. 
• economic imperialism
• us banks were in control of many business in Latin america 
• us said it was needed to keep European powers out of Latin america
• substituting for bullets

what types of business did the us invest in other country?

• mining

President Woodrow Wilson:

• Wilson's ethical and religious beliefs also influence his foreign policy
• practiced missionary diplomacy
• us would not recognize any government that was oppressive......................

Pancho villa Mexican expedition 1916-17

• Villa was pro american at first out but soon changed after president camarza asked us to control Mexican mines
• killed dozens of us citizens on two different occasions ounce on us soil
• president Wilson ordered general john Pershing and 15000 troops to go into mexico and capture Vila
• eventually, the Mexican army clashed with Pershing's forces
• by 1917, both sides backed down

Review for Test:

At the age of thirteen, Fatimetou was forced to marry an older man. She didn't not like him and kept running away from him, but her family kept bringing her back. Another girl at the age of thirteen, Briggite gave birth to her first child. Amina was fifteen when her husband was sold. All of these stories are sadly very common. These girls's names have been changed to protect their identity . In a new study, UNICEF estimates that the total number of child brides will rise from 125 million to 310 million by 2050.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/26/africa/africa-child-brides-unicef/index.html

Why do you think these rates keep going up?

How do you think these rates could go down or how do you think we could help save these little girls from this?

After a two year engagement with her fiance, Kyle Manulock received a text that said he didn't  want to marry her. Kyle said she was so surprised and didn't really know what to think. After being OK of what just happened, she decided to invite her bridesmaids to a color run in their dresses for fun. Kyle said she didn't want to ruin her dress so she thought this would be fun why to forget about the situation but not ruin her dress in the process. She also said thank you to my fiance for saving me all this pain that would have hardened if we did get married. 

http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/11/18/bride-destroys-wedding-dress-engagement-ends-pkg.wfla

What would you have done if your fiance just ended the relationship just before the wedding?

Do you think that what she did was a good idea and a good way to handle the situation?

Monday-

Spanish American War

• by 1900, Spain was a dwindling empire
• the us had been interest in Cuba for a long- us tried to by Cuba in 1854
• Cubans had been revolting against Spain frequently(1868, 1878, 1886, 1895) wanting independence 
• many us people felt sorry for the Cuban people

what caused an increase in tension between the us and Spain

• in 1895, civil war broke out in Cuba between Spain and the Cubans
• the conflict was described "Bloody and brutal"
• newspapers(yellow press) reported the brutality of the Spanish General Weyler

Causes of Spanish American war

• the USS Maine sinking
• the yellow Press
• Butcher Weyler and his treatment of Cubans in the concentration camps
• the De Lome letter
• ........................get them letter....................

Jose Marti- got the unites states in the war

Yellow Press

• instigated the war
• united the general public to want war with Spain
• made people feed sorry for the Cubans

Jingos- people who want war

declaration of war and the teller Amendment

• on April 25, 1898 the us declared war on Spain
• discuss imperialist vs anti imperialist in us
• ....................didn't get the rest............................

fronts in the spanish american war

• Philippians- there was a little fighting in the here

treaty of Paris -1898

• brought an official end to the war
• spain gave cuba................

we lost about 3000 soldiers

385 battle deaths

2500 died due to disease

Tuesday:

in 1898 Spain gave control of Cuba to the us with the treaty of pairs

in 1802 the us granted Cuba its independence as promised with the teller amendment

the us retained the right to intervene to preserve Cuban independence and stability with the platt amendment

the us got control of Guantanamo bay as well, a naval base we still have control of

Philippine-american war:

• the Philippine american war broke out after the Filipinos realized that the us would not give them independence 
• it ended with american control over the island
• 12,000-20,000 Filipinos soldiers dead

china:

• by the late 1800's it was looking as if china would be carved up like Africa had been 
• china wanted.................didn't get the rest

open door policy:

• we wanted all countries to have free trading with china, 
• it would guarantee  china's independence

panama canal:

• people wanted it for trade
• we bought it from France
• for 40 million $
• before we started, we had to get permission from Columbia

what made building the canal so difficult:

• there was disease
• soft soil had to be removed 

Wednesday:

the Roosevelt corollary:

• it was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine
• said that the us would be the police officer between Latin america and Europe
• the us would use force to protect interests in Latin america 

speak softly and carry a big stick- big stick diplomacy

• speak softly and carry a big stick 
• what does this mean?
• means don't brag about your country

dollar diplomacy president Taft

• using the us government to guarantee loans to foreign countries by us banks and businesses
• economic imperialism
• us banks were in control of many business in Latin america
• us said it was needed to keep European powers out of Latin america
• substituting dollars for bullets 

Monday: 

we discussed the France situation

chapter

• America Claims an Empire
• domestic policy- how we deal with other countries

Key Terms:

• diplomacy- coming together to make an agreement
• imperialism-using power to get what you want(bigger country takes over a smaller country)
• protectorate- a stronger country protects or controls a weaker country( one country)
• militarism-your country believes in having a strong military 
• nationalism- being proud of your country
• sphere of influence- one country has a lot of control over an area(bigger area)(like the united states)
• arbitration- hearing both sides of the story and making a decision

Tuesday:

continued skits and finished them

9.4-

land disputes:

• Taft took land and let big businesses have it

9.5-

Wilson's new freedom

• this passed the 19th amendment which allowed women to vote and other women right

Windrow Wilson

• ratified the 17th medicament

Clayton antitrust act:

• this broke up monopolies
• established labor unions 

Federal trade commission act:

Federal farm loan act:

• loan to farmers
• allow small farmers to be competitive with large business

Underwood tariff:

• tax on imports or exports

Federal reserve act:

• it established 12 regional federal reserve banks
• these banks did what?    this made sure that banks didn't close

Wednesday:

old diplomacy- 

• noninterventionist- not to intervene- to not get involve
•     - the us did not intervene in foreign affairs, especially Europe's
• isolationist- they don't allow anyone to go in their country and they don't go out of there country 
•     - the us ached alone in foreign affairs as compared to working with other nations
• passive and reactive- laid back but will react when they are being affected 
•     - the us waited for events to occur and then acted accordingly
• weak army and navy- they aren't strong

New diplomacy-

• imperialistic- going out and conquering territory to create an empire- Alfred Mahan, Henry Cabot lodge, teddy Roosevelt
• 2 stronger army and navy
• interventionist-especially in central and south america
• becoming more involved in other countries affairs
• Monrovia doctrine- warning to European countries to stay out of Latin america stay out and don't come out 
• strong nationalism- having pride and confidence in one's country

chapter 10 Imperialism and America

• imperialism became very common with the major powers of the world
• which countries were the most powerful in 1900? - Germany, France, Italy, great Britain, Austria- hungry, Russia, US, Japan, Turkey 

Friday:

why did the us and other countries look to imperialism: 

• resources
• other countries would have taken it if we didn't
• trade
• belief in cultural superiority- white man's burden- we thought that blacks weren't as smart because they had smaller brains, so we had to help them.

cartoon: uncle sam is having to discipline the darker skinned people while the white people are reading in the background 

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Monday:

chapter 9 presentations:

• describe the major social changes that affected women during the progressive Era
• describe women's push for suffrage(voting) and the passing of the of the 19th Amendment

Women's Role in Progressive Era:

• many more women were getting an education 
• many became teachers
• help push for the passing of the 18th and 19th Amendments in the US Constitution

The Push For Equality

• 1848-Seneca Falls Declaration: 
• Abolition of slavery
• temperance 13th Amendment
• Women's suffrage 18th amendments

National women's suffrage association:

• Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were apart of this association
• they also pushed for legalizing alcohol 
• world war 1 helped women get jobs

Jeannette Rankin

• worked to win suffrage in Washington state
• was elected the 1st women in Congress in 1916
• voted against war in WWI and WWII

9-3:

Theodore Roosevelt:

• he was a young governor from New York
• he was not  healthy kid, he had asthma 
• he became a boxer, he started lifting weights

Railroad regulation

9-2:

Women in the workforce:

• most women worked in the home, some worked in the fields, some worked in factories
• 70% of women were employed in 1870

Women lead reform:

a 3 part strategy for surface

• state legislature
• amendment process
• through congress 

Tuesday: I was gone

Wednesday: presentations

16th amendment:

• took people money through taxes(income taxes)

Policy towards African americans:

• Booker T Washington a black civil right activists............

William Jennings Bryan vs William Howard Taft 1908 election

the elections were basically split between the north and the south

William Howard Taft:

• born September 15, 1857
• attended Yale college
• he was a lawyer then secretary of war
• never aimed at being president
• he went back o work after being president, he was a lawyer and other things

Taft's Accomplishments:

• Payne Aldrich which reduced tariffs
• broke up many trusts including the standards of company in 1911
• 16th Amendment Passed

presidents can't passed laws, but can have an impact on them

Standard Oil:

• standard oil of Ohio became BP

Monday: 9-1

aimed to help the poor, YMCA-the young men's christian association.

-Define the Progressive Era, why it started and it goals.- opened library, sponsored things, built swimming pools

4 goals of progressive

•  moral improvement
• creating economical reform
• fostering efficiency
• progressive era

banging alcohol- moral improvement

reforming local government:

• natural government
• split of parts of cities
• eventually rebuilt
• city councils were created

government was all different and corrupt

reform mayors:

• progressive reform was changing organization

reform at the state level- reform government:

• robert m. la follette, big business

Protecting working children:

• unskilled tasks
• low wadges
• immigrants, rural migrants sent their kids to work 

efforts to limit working hours:

• women's work hours limited to 10 hour days

Reforming elections:

Direct elections of senators:

• the legislature had chosen its own united states senators
• progressives pushed for the popular

Brun's discussion for 9-1:

4 goals of progressive

• protecting social welfare
• promoting moral improvement
• creating economic reform
• fostering efficiency

protecting social welfare:

• set up settlement houses for poor
• opened libraries
• sponsored education classes
• set up soup kitchens
• slum brigades- teach immigrants English and other skills
• some organizations that helped- YMCA

promoting moral improvement:

• prohibition
• Carrie nation
• why ban alcohol
• women's suffrage

-What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition?

-Describe the impact aid organizations had on our country.

-What did the 18th Amendment do and why did people want it?

-What is socialism? How was it started in the United States?

-What/who were muckrakers and what impact did they have on our country?

-What did local government do to reform itself during the Progressive Era?

-What did businesses do to bring better efficiency to their business?

-What did the progressives do to make the workplace safer?
-What did the progressives do to help end or reduce child labor?
 -What did progressives do to help workers reduce the number of hours they had to work?

-What did progressives do to bring about better wages for workers?

-What did progressives do to make our country more democratic?

-What did the 17th Amendment do?

 Wednesday: 

creating economic reform:

• there was a major unbalance in income and how people lived
• many turned to socialism
• regulations of railroad
• child labor laws
• letting people work but still have a life
• Sherman act

muckrakers- they are investigator journalists

Fostering efficiency:

• scientist management to increase efficiency was used in factories
• Frederick Taylor- time management studies
• assembly line
• henry ford paid workers $5(which was a lot) a day

Monday: work day

Tuesday:

Chapter 7:

7.3- 

Key questions:

• what was the political machine and what did they do for a city
• explain Boss T weed and the Tweed Ring 

What caused all the corruption in government

• what laws came about to reform the government

Gilded Age: 1870-1900

• gilded- to be covered with gold

Political Machine:

• A political organization, usually controlled by a single 'boss', that controlled people's votes and had administrative control of a city, county, or state
• these organizations provided social service and jobs to people (recent immigrants) in exchange for votes
• very corrupt
• came about due to the rapid increase of population in cities and poor government in the 1800's
• died out in the early 1900's
•  There was a lot of corruption in government
• Kickback system
• granting favors to big business
• spoils system/patronage
• political boss, hired/fired police

Boss William Marcy Tweet

• was the boss of the democratic political machine in new York city
• the building Tweet worked in was Tammany Hall

Reforming Government:

• Pendleton Civil service act-1883

Good president also brought change

• president grants- president Wilson
• 1869-1921

Reform presidents

Status Quo Presidents

Ulysses s. grants- 1869-1877, status quo republican

Wednesday:

McKinley's Assassination

• Assassin was Leon Czologosz, an anarchist
• Buffalo, new York at the world's fair 
• September 6, 1901
• 8 days, McKinley died from infection

Teddy Roosevelt-1901-1909

• reformer republican

William Howard Taft-1909-1913

• status Quo republican

Chapter 8:

• advances and Technology- skyscrapers(flatiron building 1902)- Electric streetcars- subways-1904- automatic dishwasher-1899- airplane-1903-camera-1888-toilet paper-1857-radio-1895
• Expanding public Education- before 1800, school was for wealthy, most states had public schools by 1865

Thursday:

• Why did the lecture become a common strategy for teachers?
• How is our school system set up like a factory during the industrial revolution?
• schools are like an assembly line, bell, classes, units
• American American were segregated in schools
• immigrants were encouraged to go to school
• 1880-1920, college enrollment quadrupled
• high school diploma and entrance exams were used in admittance purpose  

Segregation:

• separation 
• literacy test- in order to vote you had to read and write, Poll tax- pay money to vote, Lynching and violence
• this ind of prevented some poor white people to vote so they came up with the grandfather clause(1-1-1867)
• 1896- Plessy vs Ferguson: separate but equal/ that didn't happen though, separate but not equal
• specific separation state laws- Jim Crow Laws

Friday: 

entertainment- circus, zoos, minstrel shows

parks-central park:

basketball

baseball= invented by Abner Doubleday in 1839

football- 1800

NFL- 1920

Golfer- John McDemott

Paddy Ryan- boxing

Jack John- African american heavy weight champion in 1908

The first film- the great train robbery in 1903

Monday:

Chapter 7-9:

option 1: research and create a power point style presentation or video documentary on your families history

• both parents family history
• where they came from
• when where they came from
• when/why/how they came to the us

Option: you find a small group will be responsible for teaching some aspect of ch. 9 on the progressive 

ch. 7:

Why did immigrants come to the US?

Where did immigrants come from?

What problems/issues did immigrants face on the trip over and once they got here?

Why did some people want to put restriction on immigration? What were those restrictions?

immigration today:

why did people come to the united states?

• opportunities
• family
• war in other country

Why do us citizenship get upset about illegal immigration?

• they don't pay taxes
• criminals
• racism 

what is birth right citizenship:

• parents are illegal, but you were born in us, you are a us citizenship
• anchor baby

legal immigration:

11.4 million illegal immigrants

mexico is where the most immigrants come from 

1870-1920 20 million Europeans came to us

nativists: people supports the people who were already here

w.a.s.p.

W: white

A: angio 

S: saxon

P: protestant

old immigrants: 

new immigrants: 

Tuseday:

where did immigrants come from?

• Germany
• Ireland

steps to america:

• leaving home- common for one person to come to america
• on boat- 95% of immigrants arriving at Ellis island( joining family) ticket coast $30(today $800), 3 types of accommodations- first class- second class- and steerage, steerage passengers were inspected at Ellis island, first class was inspected on ship. Steerage- bottom of ship, lot of diseases in steerage
• inspection
• beyond Ellis or angle island 

Thursday:

• stop 4- money exchange; change money into american money
• where did people go? German went to:
• Chinese exclusion act- band Chinese immigrants
• gentleman's agreement- informal agreement the US and Japan
• the US would not restrict Japanese immigration and Japan would not allow further immigration to the US
• the goal was to reduce tensions between the US and Japan
• what was the tension? San Francisco started segregating schools( not white and black, between Japanese and whites)
• 7.2 key questions:
• why did cities grow so fast? immigration
• farmers weren't doing well so they moved to the cities, African americans moved to the cites, Chinese offered more jobs and opportunities, cities offered more entertainment.
• problems in the city- cramped, old, dirty housing, lack of good transportation, lack of safe drinking water, diseases was common, streats were filthy, crime, fires, poverty due to low pay at work.
• Jacob Riis- "How the other half lives"- 
• define tenements: 

Friday:

solution:

• cities put restrictions on building wood frame structures in the center of the city
• spread buildings out
• put sprinklers in to put out fires if they did start
• tenement House Law: outlawed the construction of new tenement on 25- foot lots and mandated improved sanitary conditions, fire escapes and access to light
• current tenements were updated and more than 200,000 new apartments were built over the next 15 years
• most tenements were destroyed in the 1920's and especially the 1930's with FDR's New deal

Lack of good transportation:

• electric street-late 1800's early 1900
• automobiles: there are 300 cars in the united states in 1895
•  subways- new York city 1904
• airplanes- 1902- wright brothers 

Problem; lack of safe drinking water:

• In late 1800's, scientist had proven that disease were spread through unsafe drinking water
• in early 1900's, chlorine was added to the water to help eliminate disease
• federal regulation of drinking water quality began in 1914 which continued to strength over decades

Disease was common and streets were filthy:

• solutions
• already mentioned horses being replaced eliminating the manure problem  
• introduction of indoor plumbing
• George A. Warning Jr. - New York city 1895
• organized modern recycling street sweeping and garbage collection 

Crime:

• Organized Police Force
• police became full time employees of the city-not volunteers
• in 1828, Boston established the first American police force
• new York- 1845
• Chicago- 1851

Fires:

• full time, paid firefighters 
• in 1853- Cincinnati.................

Poverty due to low pay at work:

• labor unions
• minimum wage laws
• shorter hours

Monday: 

continuing presentations:

Railroads span time and space:

• the railroad untied the united states
• 1865 the railroad reached Mississippi 
• 10 miles of railroad a day

Transcontinental railroad:

• went from Omaha across the rocky mountains and into California 

Romance and Reality:

• you could go anywhere at a price
• continental railroad
• $136-first class
• $110- second class
• $65-third class

The grange laws:

• railroads mistreated the farmers
• granger laws helped farmers
• it made the prices to ship things on the railroad
• Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota

Interstate commerce act:

• business were closed 
• left 4 million people out of jobs

6-3:

Andrew Carnegie

• Scotland to us- 1848, 13 years of age
• he joined the steel industry
• he bought out other companies
• owned everything

Vertical and Horizontal Integration:'

vertical- they own everything

horizontal- you own only one thing like all the oil company

Monopoly-

Sherman anti trust act:

• rules out Monopoly
• 1890

Social Darwinism:

• weaker die off
• stronger live
• survivor of the richest 

Union Movement Diverge:

• created to protect workers
• spread and split into 2 factions

Industrial Unionism:

• organized everyone regardless of skill
• more leverage bargaining and strike situations

craft unionism:

• separate things

Strike turns violent:

• July 14 877
• 10% wage cut 3rd time
• stopping trade between states

Labor unions:

• long hours
• little pay
• bad conditions
• children worked as well
• people came together
• sweat shop

The amwrican rederation of labor:

• samuel gompers
• average wages rose
• unionize industries
• 17.50 to 24$ a weak

Collective Bargaining:

• Gompers as its president, focused on collective bargaining or negotiation
• successful strike helped 

Pullman strike:

• in 1893 the Pullman company laid off 3,000 of the 5,800 employees
• on may 11, 1894 nearly 4,000 employees  went on strike

Woman organization:

• Mary Harris Jones

Tuesday:

Ch. 5.1:

-Describe Native American culture?

-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?

-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?

• we forced them onto smaller plains
• we went to war against them
• white people trying to get them to be like them

-Describe a cowboy's life.


Ch. 5.2:

-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains?

• helped bring people out west and brought food and others out west
• homestead act- people went west

-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains?

• lonely
• bad weather
• hard work
• native americans
• debt
• railroad prices

Ch. 5.3:

-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?

same as 5.2

-Who were the Populists and what did they believe in?

populist- help farmers out of debt, people greater voice in government etc.

Ch. 6.1:

-What caused the Industrial revolution to really take off in the late 1800's?

• tons of natural resources- why were they important- so you can make stuff
• government helped business
• cities were growing
• laissez faire- government staying out of businesses
• immigrants provided cheap labor
• oil boom

-What were some new inventions in the late 1800's and what affect did they have on people's lives?

• electricity

Ch. 6.2:

-What impact did railroads have on the US?

• settle the west
• brought people to west
• country smaller
• it brought about time zones

-Why were many people upset with the railroads?

• killed buffalo 
• to pricey 

-What did the Grangers or government do to regulate the railroads?

• state laws or granger laws
• passed laws so things were even with rich people and farmers

Ch. 6.3:

-Tell me about Andrew Carnegie. .......carnegie steel- his company

they started from poor families

-Tell me about John D. Rockefeller..............standard oil- hist company

they started from poor families

-What was Social Darwinism and how did it apply to business?

-Explain how companies formed monopolies(vertical/horizontal integration, trusts).

• how are they formed: 

-How did the government try to regulate business?

sherman anti trust act- made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states

-What are labor unions and what is their purpose?

helped get better work conditions and pay

why do we have labor day?

because of the people who were int he labor unions

Were labor unions successful in achieving their goals? Explain/Give examples.

Monday:

guest speaker

Tuesday

5.3

wednesday:

Continue 5.3

Bimetalism:

• they used to back up there money with gold

Cross of gold

• William Jennings Bryan
• silverite

6.1

The expansion of industry:

• Patillio Gagins 
• bubbles in the spring around spindle top
• Spindletop was the birthplace of the modern of industry
• captain anthony F. Lucas - prospector 
• natural resources fuel industrialization
• what allowed the industrial revolution to take off?

                            wealth of natural resources

                            government support of business      laissez faire- government is going to stay out of it, it allowed business to make lots of money.

steel

• 1850- Bessemer process development by Henry Bessemer and William Kelly
• 1887- prospector discover iron ore in Mesabi range in Minnesota
• uses for steel
• 1883- built the brooklyn bridge. 1,395 ft. 
• used for railroads, farm machinery 
• coal production goes up 33 million

an electric beginning:

• Thomas Edison invented electrition 

Youre welcome women

• Alexander graham bell

5.3:

• rise and fall of populism
• populism- movement of people
• July 2 1892
• Omaha Nebraska 
• the farmers made up the populist 

Party Platform:

• increase in money 
• 8 hour worldday
• populist became platform for democrats 
• populist candidate won
• help farmer out of dept
• give people a greater voice in government
• increase money supply in circulation
• graduated income tax
• federal loan program 
• direct election of senators
• single terms for president
• secret ballot
• 8 hour work days
• restrictions on immigrants

6.2:

• new towns and markets
• connected cities, towns, settlements
• trade independence
• towns particular products

Pullman:

• created a company
• built railroads
• sleepers
• Illinois prairie 

credit moblier:

• control over the railroad
• track laid or three times the cost
• side stock
• $23 million

Panic of 1893:

• farmers had a bunch payment and were going bankrupted 
• reading railroad
• gold wore thin due to silver

Wednesday:

-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains?

-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains?

-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?

presentations

Section 5.1

The culture of plains Indians:

• Iowa and Osage in the east
• Sioux and the Cheyenne in the west

Family life:

• tribe lea by counsel of force
• not one person owned the land, they all owned the land
• they didn't get the idea of buying and owning land

Settlers push westward:

• owning land
• riight in country

Government restrict native americans:

• the governemt set aside land for the indians
• but got smaller and smaller

Sand creek massacre:

Nov. 29th 1864

700 men attacked the village of cheyenne and arapaho

unproked attacked

Bozeman Trail:

• 1866-1868
• connected montana territory to the orgeon trail
• didn't want white settlers on the trail

the treaty of fort laramie

• agreement between the us and the sioux nations to bring peace
• gave ownership of the black hills to the sioux nation

Bloody battles continue

• red river war
• force indians to go west

Gold rush- black hills

• 1874
• george a custer and his men came to the black hills 

George a custer

• us army officer 

custer's last stand

• battle at little bighorn
• june 25, 1876
• 1,000 vs 600

Sitting bull

• tribal chief during american Indian wars

Assimilation

• dawn ad-1887
• native americans white culture
• broke up reservations and gave some reservation land to native americans
• 1992-men took up 273 acres of reservations that was supposed to be set aside for relatives

Friday: 

continue presentations

continue 5.1

Battle of Wounded Knee:

• 40 native police officers
• sitting bull's friend-catch-the-bear killed one of the police officer
• native Americans forced to give up weapons
• too place in lower part of south Dakota- great Sioux Reservation

Cattle Becomes Big Business:

• herds of buffalo disappeared
• horses and cattle came into the lands
• americans learned from Mexicans how to herd large herds
• Texans got angry about had cattle transportation
• herds had to be sold at cut rate prices, others,died of starvation

Chicago Union Stockyards:

• 1560 to 18880 cowboys herded over ten million 

Cow towns:

• 1867
• cattlemen-better route
• McCoy came plans of better routes 
• Abilene Kansas
• ranchers hired cowboys to drive their cattle
• $25 to $125 a head
• dodge city, Denver Colorado(cow towns)

A day in the life of a cowboy:

• 55,000 cowboys
• days work
• roundup- go out and brought every cow in and brand ti and sell them off
• long drive
• 10 to 14 hour days
• no railroads in the south at that time

The end of the open range:

• barbed wire defined people properties
• overgrazing lead to starvation in the winter of 1886 to 1887
• start to have railroads now

Destruction of the buffalo:

• shot for sport
• less than 1000 were left by 1890

Monday- no school

Tuesday- 

reconstruction 1865- 1877:

• the period of time after the civil war in which the south had to be rebuilt and reorganized and brought back into the Union.
• President Lincoln and Johnson wanted to be easy on the south.
• that changed in 1866 congressional elections.
• Rebuilt south economically, socially, politically and physically.
• split South into 5 military district enrolled by U.S. army.
• 13th and 14th and 15th amendments passed
• 13- abolished slavery
• freedmen's bureau set up to help former slaves.
• southern governments taken over by carpetbaggers and scalawages 
• these governments set up schools, raised taxes, built railroads, etc. 
• carpet bag government- south government controlled by the north
• governments were accused of widespread corruption by southerners 
• reconstruction left very deep division between the northern states and southern states.
• ounce the Northern governments and military left the south, traditional rich, white racist males took back over.
• Jim cow laws- (Rosa parks) different schools, buses, etc.
• the compromise of 1877
• unwritten deal between north and south politicians that settled the heavily disputed 1876..............
• election of 1876- Rutherford B. Hayes Vs. Samuel J. Tilden
• french and Indian war- British won, 
• articles of confederation- power to the state
• war of 1812- united states and Britian, no one really won
• women;s right movement- what major movement happened in 1848

Wednesday: test

Thursday: test

Friday: 9/11

Monday:

presentations

Mr. Bruns went over classroom rules

project: 

Driving Idea:

What are the main historic events that took place in 7th Grade US History that helped shape the United States up to 1877?(semester test question)

-Research and create a presentation on what you and your group consider to be the five biggest events that shaped our government and nation from Native Americans coming over the land bridge until 1877 with Reconstruction.

-Use Ch. 1-4 of the US History textbook to help