Monday- Christina presents on the importance of the buffalo to the Native Americans. Forum post leaders shared their topics with the class
Tuesday- Group 5-3 presents
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
- Farmers needed to keep borrowing money to make it, putting them in debt
- Losing money because crops were being destroyed
- Bland Allison Act of 1878
- The farmers alliance- Helped farmers get education
-Who were the Populists and what did they believe in?
- People that worried about the middle and lower class
- People's party
- Wanted to give everyone a voice in government
- Graduated income tax
- Amount of money that people are expected to spend
- Direct election of senators
- people from the state choose who are the senators
- Single terms for presidency
- People could serve as long as they wanted
- Secret Ballot
- 8 hr work day
- Better conditions
- Restrictions on immigration
- Panic of 1893
- Farmers were in debt
- Panics- depressions
- 3 million people lost their jobs
Chapter 6-1
-What caused the Industrial revolution to really take off in the late 1800's?
- Oil
- Patillo Higgins discovered oil in Texas in 1900
- Anthony F Lucas and Higgins began a drill
- Months of difficult work- Oil gushed
- The oil boom began
- Fuel industrialization
- US was an agricultural nation
- Became and industrial power in the world
- Wealth of Natural resources
- Growing urban population
- Government support for business
- Laissez faire
- US had a hands off approach to the businesses
- People began to work 8 hours a day instead of 12-14
-What were some new inventions in the late 1800's and what affect did they have on people's lives?
- Black Gold
- Medicine fuel from crude oil before Europeans arrived
- 1840 they began using for kerosene lamps
- Started an oil boom to Texas, ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky
- Electricity
- Thomas edison
- Created light bulb and discovered electricity
- Thomas edison
- Light bulb
- Only burned 40 hours
- found a filament that could last 1200 hours
- Typewriter
- Christopher sholes
- Freed workers from physical labor
- Weekly hours went down to 10
- Women working went up 35%
- Made from pine board
- Steel
- made of dense metal
- Used fro railroads, barbed wire, farm machines, Brooklyn Bridge
- Bessemer process- making steel easily
Wednesday-
Group 6-2
Railroads-
-What impact did railroads have on the US?
-Better/ faster transportation
-Brought forth giant corporations
-Why we are many people upset with the railroads?
-Farmers were upset wiped out farms and villages
-Hard work
-What did the Grangers or government do to regulate the railroads?
-Several laws were passed (wanted to regulate rising prices of railroads)
Thursday-
Finish talking about 6-2 and Perri presented her part of 6-1. (in notes from Tuesday)
6-3
-Tell me about Andrew Carnegie.
-Tell me about John D. Rockefeller.
-What was Social Darwinism and how did it apply to business?
- Believe that humans evolved
- Politicians believe that businesses can grow to be as big and powerful as they want
- Laissez faire (Allow to do)
- Unregulated marketplace
- Survival of the richest
-Explain how companies formed monopolies(vertical/horizontal integration, trusts).
- They just kept buying other businesses
- Horizontal- Buy out steel companies
- Things would be cheaper
- Vertical- Buy out your suppliers (resources, transportation)
-How did the government try to regulate business?
- Sherman antitrust act
- Stopped businesses from making monopolies
- Created an equal playing field
-What are labor unions and what is their purpose?
Were labor unions successful in achieving their goals? Explain/Give examples.
Friday- Watch America: the story of us
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