MONDAY, SEPT.

10TH

DO NOW:
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF A PRE-TEST?
 TUESDAY, SEPT. 11TH

DO NOW:
WHAT HAPPENED IN THE YEARS FOLLOWING THE
CIVIL WAR? WHAT WAS THIS PERIOD CALLED?
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook • Reconstruction handout from
• Writing utensil yesterday
• Last week’s bellwork and notes

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 12 TH

DO NOW:
BRIEFLY SUMMARIZE THE 13TH, 14TH, AND 15TH
AMENDMENTS
RECONSTRUCTION
AMENDMENTS

13th Outlawed slavery

14th Guaranteed citizenship to all

people born in the United States
15 th Gave all men the right to vote
regardless of race
MEN WHO BUILT AMERICA
• Over the next two-three days we will be
watching episodes focusing on the men who
helped to rebuild America following the Civil War
• Pay attention to your notes and fill them in as
you go!
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook • Thinking Maps BW and Notes
• Writing utensil if not turned in yesterday
• MWBA Notes

THURSDAY, SEPT. 13 TH

DO NOW:
• HOW DID VANDERBILT MAKE HIS MILLIONS?
• HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE VANDERBILT IN ONE WORD?
MEN WHO BUILT AMERICA
• Over the next two-three days we will be
watching episodes focusing on the men who
helped to rebuild America following the Civil War
• Pay attention to your notes and fill them in as
you go!
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
• Writing utensil
• MWBA Notes

FRIDAY, SEPT. 14 TH

DO NOW:
• HOW DID ROCKEFELLER MAKE HIS MILLIONS?
• HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE ROCKEFELLER IN ONE WORD?
 Vanderbilt Rockefeller

Nicknamed the Commodore Born to a poor family Made money through the
railroads
Made Money through boats/shipping Started the Standard Oil Company Made fortune through the refining of
oil
Sold candy as kid to make money for One of the richest men of America Built Grand Central Depot
family during Reconstruction
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
• Writing utensil
• MWBA Notes

MONDAY, SEPT. 17 TH

DO NOW:
• WHAT ARE THE THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT IN THE US?
• WHAT DOCUMENT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CREATION OF
THEM?
 Vanderbilt Rockefeller

Nicknamed the Commodore Born to a poor family Made money through the
railroads
Made Money through boats/shipping Started the Standard Oil Company Made fortune through the refining of
oil
Sold candy as kid to make money for One of the richest men of America Built Grand Central Depot
family during Reconstruction
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook • Constitution Day handout
• Writing utensil

TUESDAY, SEPT. 18 TH

DO NOW:
• WHICH BRANCH DO YOU THINK IS MOST POWERFUL?
ANSWER WHY IN TWO OR MORE SENTENCES
 1.1 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
1. What natural resource did factories and models of transportation rely
on?
2. What were effects of the completion and expansion of the national
railroad?
3. Sketch the Vertical Integration picture on pg. 12 into your notebook
4. Define social Darwinism
5. What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
• Writing utensil
• Industrial Rev. Reading

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18 TH

DO NOW:
• OF THE THREE INVENTIONS MENTIONED IN YESTERDAY’S
READING, WHICH DO YOU THINK WAS THE MOST
SIGNIFICANT AND WHY?
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
• Writing utensil
• 1.1 Questions

THURSDAY, SEPT. 20 TH
DO NOW:
• WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE GROUP OF FARMERS
WHO DISLIKED THE RAILROADS HAVING TOO MUCH
POWER?
 1.2 LABOR NOTEBOOK QUESTIONS
1. The Grange evolved into what political party?
2. What was life like working in a factory during the IR?
3. What were the goals of the Knights of Labor?
4. What did Mother Jones fight for? Effects 

5. Create a cause and effect thinking Pullman

Strike
map of the Pullman Strike
causes
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
• Writing utensil
• 1.2 Reading

FRIDAY, SEPT. 21 ST
DO NOW:
• BASED ON WHAT YOU READ YESTERDAY, HOW
WOULD YOU DEFINE WHAT A UNION IS?
 INDUSTRY AND LABOR
• Early industrial inventions such as the McCormick reaper and the
Cyrus plow lessened the demand for farm labor which drove rural
populations to urban industrial jobs.
• IR inventions made farming easier so people moved to cities
 EARLY FARMING ORGANIZATIONS
• As farmers competed to make profits, technological advances
led to overproduction.
• With a high supply, prices dropped as the demand did not
increase as rapidly with the increase of supply.
• Too many crops so price decreased
 EARLY FARMING ORGANIZATIONS
• Along with overproduction, the banking sector charged high interest
rates on loans.
• The railroad industry charged higher rates on short hauls as they
maintained a monopoly on local markets and 17 charged different rates
to different individuals
• Banks and railroads began ripping off farmers because they were the only
option available
 EARLY FARMING ORGANIZATIONS
• In the south and west, the Farmers Alliance set out to educate farmers
on topics including low interest rates and government influence on
railroads and banking.
• Lecturers went from town to town to promote concepts to improve
the conditions of most farmers.
• The Grange and Farmers Alliance both worked to promote farmers
agenda and opposed bank/railroad corruption
 POPULIST PARTY
• The education provided by the Farmers Alliance eventually led to political action.
• The Populist Party formed in the 1890s and focused on the plights of the farmers
and working class. unlimited
loan programs that coinage of
would balance the silver
a costs of food.
graduated eight hour
income workday
tax Populist
single Party direct election
terms for Platform of U. S. Senators
president
• Where are
populist voters?
• Where are
people moving
for IR jobs?
• Populists failed
to secure
enough urban
votes, lost 1892
election.
 BIG BUSINESS AFFECTS LABORERS
• Unskilled workers flocked to the factories during the Industrial Revolution.
• These unskilled workers included working class men, women, and children.
• The working class was continuously filled as new immigrants flocked to the
United States for a better life.
• Factory workers typically worked ten to fourteen hour days to earn that
pay.
• Along with low pay, factory conditions were dangerous.
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook • Last week’s bellwork
• Writing utensil
• 1.2 Questions

MONDAY, SEPT. 24 TH
DO NOW:
• WHAT DEMOGRAPHIC/PROFESSION MADE UP THE
BULK OF MEMBERSHIP OF THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY?
LABOR UNION
• an organized association of workers, often in a trade or
profession, formed to protect and further their rights
and interests.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewu-v36szlE
 LABOR UNIONS
KNIGHTS OF LABOR AMERICAN FEDERATION OF
• skilled and unskilled laborers LABOR (AFL).
• groups of unions, usually skilled
• included women and African
• main goals of the AFL were to
Americans
increase wages and have shorter work
• main goal was to set a standard eight weeks
hour workday and improve safety
• pushed for a closed shop in which a
conditions at factories
factory would only employ union
• abolition of child labor and equal pay members.
for equal work
 MARY HARRIS JONES
SAMUEL GOMPERS (MOTHER JONES)
• championed the idea of a union • leader for the rights of miners and
including all laborers children
• Debs’ American Railway Union won • organize the United Mine Workers of
a strike in 1894 which increased its America and was faced numerous
• membership by the thousands. death threats.
However, his union was short lived
as membership dwindled only after • In 1903, she led children onto the
a successful strike White House lawn and demonstrated
the harshness of child labor
 FAILED STRIKES
Pullman Strike
1. Factory owner owned who town (factory town)
2. During the panic of 1893, Pullman cut wages but did not lower the cost
of rent or goods from his town
3. The Pullman Strike occurred in 1894 as Eugene V. Debs led the way to
aid the workers.
4. Federal troops were sent in and the strike was exterminated.
5. Most of the workers lost their jobs and were placed on blacklists that
prevented them from obtaining employment at other factories.
 1.2 LABOR NOTEBOOK QUESTIONS
1. The Grange evolved into what political party?
Populist Party
2. What was life like working in a factory during the IR?
Long hours, low pay, dangerous conditions
3. What were the goals of the Knights of Labor?
8 hour days, improve safety conditions, no child labor, equal pay for equal
work
 1.2 LABOR NOTEBOOK QUESTIONS
• What did Mother Jones fight for?
• Rights of miners and children
• Create a cause and effect thinking map of the Pullman Strike
Pullman Troops called in
Effects 
controlled town
Workers
Pullman blacklisted (can’t
Cut wages
get jobs with
Strike
other factories
Didn’t cut prices
on goods Workers lost
causes
jobs
1.2 LABOR QUESTIONS
•Use your 1.2 reading and notes to
answer the 1.2 questions
•(Back side of the 1.1 IR questions from
last Wednesday)
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
• Writing utensil

TUESDAY, SEPT. 25 TH
DO NOW:
• WHO BROUGHT THE BESSEMER PROCESS TO THE US?
WHERE DID HE LEARN ABOUT IT?
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
• Writing utensil

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 26 TH
DO NOW:
• DO YOU THINK THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION HAD A
MORE POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE IMPACT ON THE US?
WHY?
POSITIVE INCENTIVES
• What kind of activities should there be school-
wide to reward students?
• What kind of thing do you think would be fun?
• Shouldn’t be crazy expensive
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook First two students to show
• Writing utensil me completed thinking
maps get skittles

THURSDAY, SEPT. 27 TH
DO NOW:
• PEOPLE FROM WHAT TWO COUNTRIES IMMIGRATED
TO THE US TO HELP ON THE RAILROADS?
 AN INFLUX OF IMMIGRANTS

Push Factors Pull Factors

What is pushing you to What is pulling you
move
somewhere new
WELCOME TO AMERICA

B
D C A
URBANIZATION

• Urbanization- the process where an increasing

percentage of a population lives in cities and suburbs
• Before IR most people were farmers
• Major increase in people moving to cities in IR
TENEMENT HOUSING

• sdv
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXnYvJ9aTkw
 POLITICAL MACHINE
• Political machine- put own people in power
• “Boss” Tweed was one such politician
• Bribed and rigged elections
• Took $200 million from NYC
• People doing business with the city had to pay politicians to
get the job done  Tweed and friends made millions
 1.3 URBANIZATION NOTEBOOK
QUESTIONS
1. What were the two major entry points people immigrated to the US
through?
• Ellis Island in New York (European immigrants)
• Angel Island in California (Asian immigrants)
2. What did the Chinese Exclusion Act do?
• Banned Chinese from moving to or becoming citizens of US
3. By how much did the percentage of people living in major cities increase
between 1820 and 1900?
• 25 percent increase in people moving to cities
 1.3 URBANIZATION NOTEBOOK
QUESTIONS
4. What were positives and negatives to living in cities?
• Positives- job opportunities, leisure activities (sports, amusement parks,
theaters etc., electricity, plumbing, telephones, women can work for $
• Negatives- Dirty and diseases spread (lice), dirty water, tenements unsafe,
political corruption
5. What are tenements?
• Multileveled housing, people crammed together, everything shared
6. What are political machines?
• Organization that works to get its members elected into political positions
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
• Writing utensil

FRIDAY, SEPT. 28 TH
DO NOW:
• DESCRIBE WHAT SOCIAL DARWINISM IS IN YOUR OWN
WORDS
 CRASH COURSE- US HISTORY
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
• 1. How did labor change and stay the same from preIndustrial
Revolution to during the Industrial Revolution?
• 2. What inventions greatly changed how Americans work?
• 3. To what extent did labor benefit from the Industrial
Revolution?
• 4. To what extent did government interact with the economy?
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
• Writing utensil

FRIDAY, SEPT. 28 TH

ADVISORY
STUDY HALL
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
• Writing utensil

MONDAY, OCT. 1 ST
DO NOW:
• WHICH RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENT GAVE
ALL PEOPLE BORN IN THE US CITIZENSHIP?
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST AFRICAN
AMERICANS NOTES
1. How did racism affect African-Americans?
2. What effect did the Supreme Court’s ruling on Plessy v. Ferguson
have on segregation?
3. What two approaches did African American leaders take in the face
of segregation?
4. Which leader was more effective in advancing African American civil
rights? Explain your answer
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook 1.3 Urbanization, AA Discrimination
• Writing utensil questions from Wednesday and Men
Who Built questions

THURSDAY, OCT. 4 TH
DO NOW:
• BASED ON WHAT YOU’VE LEARNED SO FAR, WOULD
YOU WANT TO LIVE DURING THE IR? WHY OR WHY
NOT?
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST AFRICAN
AMERICANS NOTES
1. How did racism affect African-Americans?
• Voting rights restricted (literacy tests, poll taxes)
• Jim Crow laws (segregation)
• Lynching
2. What effect did the Supreme Court’s ruling on Plessy v. Ferguson have on
segregation?
• Separate but equal
• South can remain segregated
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST AFRICAN
AMERICANS NOTES
What two approaches did African American leaders take in the face of
segregation?
Booker T. Washington- learn trades and patience, don’t challenge
segregation, work together but live separate but equal
WEB DuBois- fight segregation, higher education, NAACP
Which leader was more effective in advancing African American civil
rights? Explain your answer
 IR HOMEWORK PAPERS

1.1 IR and 1.2 Labor Reading Questions

1.3 Urbanization Reading Questions
Discrimination Against AA 8 questions on a lined sheet (Tuesday)
Business Grows Reading (Monday)
“Captains of Industry” and “IR” questions (Wednesday)
Men Who Built America Handouts
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook • Industrial Rev handouts-last chance
• Writing utensil before half credit (turn in whatcha got)

FRIDAY , OCT. 5 TH
DO NOW:
• WHAT QUESTION DO YOU HAVE REMAINING
FROM THE STUDY GUIDE?
 FLYSWATTER REVIEW GAME
• Room split between two teams
• One on one will face off in front of the board
• First to swat the correct answer wins
• Must let me get through the questions before
swatting or you are disqualified from getting a point
 Northeast US
telephone
urbanization
Social
Lightbulb
Farming Britain Darwanism

Mother Jones
Grange typewriter

Sherman Anti-Trust
Union Pullman Strike
Act
 Booker T.
Ellis Island Ida B. Wells
Washington
Robber Barons
Boss Tweed Carnegie American
Federation of
Push factor Laborers
WEB DuBois
Plessy v. Ferguson
Vanderbilt
Chinese Exclusion Act Jim Crow Laws
Knights of Labor
Rockefeller
Angel Island