LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICA

Fri. 1/26 NATIVE PEOPLE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL

Due: read pp. 606-613, 630-639 Out of the Many

Identify:

Five Tribes
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Sand Creek Massacre
“Custer’s Last Stand”
Chief Joseph
“Buffalo Bill” Cody
Helen Hunt Jackson
Ghost Dance
Massacre at Wounded Knee

Questions to guide your reading:

1. How did the Oklahoma land rush affect the native people living there?


2. How did native peoples adapt to invading Europeans over the years?

3. How did the slaughter of buffalo affect the Plains Indians?

4. Describe the responses of artists, naturalists, and conservationist to the western landscape. How did their photographs, paintings, and stories shape perceptions of the West in the East?

5. Why were Indians unable to successfully resist white incursion?

6. Reformers considered the Dawes Severalty Act to be a humanitarian gesture. Why did it turn out to be so terrible for the Indians?


Tues. 1/30/07 POPULISM: The Farmer’s Plight in the late 19th Century

Due: 1) read pp. 619-630 2) read pp. 689-691 to "Workers Search..."3) read pp. 694 from the top-695 bottom of page

Identify:
Long drive
“range wars”
Homestead Act
Morrill Act of 1862
the Grange (p. 689) and Granger movement
Populist Movement (People’s Party)
Farmers’ Alliance
Coxey’s Army

Questions to guide your reading:
1. What was life like for a cowboy in the late nineteenth century?

2. What role did the Homestead Act play in western expansion?

3. How did farm families on the Great Plains divide chores among their members?

4. What factors determined the likelihood of economic success or failure?

5. What were some of the major technological advances in mining and in agriculture that promoted the development of the western economy of California and other western states?

6. What environmental damage did farmers do to the habitat?

7. What was the role of women in both the Grange and in the People’s Party? (689)

8. What did the Populist Party want? (694)

9. What were the causes and consequences of the depression of 1893?



Thurs. 2/1 THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT: AN ANSWER TO ALL THE PROBLEMS?

Due : 1) read pp. 722-736 OM, 2) read pp. 744-746 OM

Terms:
Lillian Wald
Henry Street Settlement
Jane Addams
Hull House
“Fighting Bob” LaFollette
initiative
referendum
recall
muckraking
John Dewey
Oliver Wendell Holmes
WCTU and prohibition

Questions to guide your reading:
1. What IS the Progressive Movement ? What are the political, social and intellectual roots of progressive reform?

2. What were the two strains of progressive thought and how did they differ?

3. Why did so many women get involved in the progressive movement?

4. What was wrong with the urban machine, from the progressives' point of view? Were we better off with it than without it?

5. Make a list of the various political reforms that the progressive movement sought to make.

6. How were southern progressives racist in their “reform” efforts?

7. Why were reformers so interested in changing the behavior of the poor? Would we have been better off if they had minded their own business?

Mon. 2/5/07 NATIONAL PROGRESSIVISM

DUE: 1) Read pp. 748 to 750 in OM 2) Read Ch. 10, in After the Fact, "USDA Government Inspected"

Terms:

"bully pulpit"
Northern Securities v. United States (1904)
Hepburn Act
Food and Drug Act
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair

Wed. 2/7/07 US IMPERIALISM AND THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

Due: In Out of Many read pp. 750-752 to "the election", 703-715 762-765 bottom of page

Terms:
Gifford Pinchot
John Muir
Sierra Club
Hetch Hetchy
New Nationalism
William Howard Taft
Election of 1908
Good Neighbor policy
Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan
Boxer Rebellion
USS Maine
Teller Amendment
Platt Amendment
Anti-Imperialist League
"big stick"
Roosevelt Corollary
Open Door policy


Questions to guide your reading:
1. How did proponents of imperialism justify colonization?

2. How did the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 display the racism of American culture?

3. How did Christian missionaries prepare the way for American imperialism in foreign lands?

4. In what ways was the annexation of Hawaii controversial?

5. Why did the US intervene in Cuba and the Philippines? What were some of the arguments for and against overseas expansion?

6. What did the US gain with victories in Cuba and in the Philippines?

7. What was controversial about the building of the Panama Canal?

Fri. 2/9/07 WOODROW WILSON: "HE KEPT US OUT OF WAR"

DUE: read pp. 752-754, 766-778 in Out of Many

Terms:

Election of 1912
New Freedom
Eugene V. Debs
Sixteenth Amendment
Federal Reserve Act
Clayton Antitrust Act
FTC
Dollar Diplomacy
militarism
imperialism
Triple Alliance
Triple Entente
Archduke Franz Ferndinand
Lusitania
Committee on Public Information
Selective Service Act
General John J. Pershing and the AEF

Questions to guide your reading:
1. To what extent is Woodrow Wilson a "Progressive" in his domestic policies?

2. How did US military involvement between 1865-1933 shape Mexico and the Caribbean?

3. Why did most Americans oppose US involvement in World War I in 1914?

4. To what extent was the US military prepared to fight a world war?

5. Why did Wilson finally take us into war by 1917?

6. Which Americans were most likely to support entry into war and why? Which were more likely to oppose it and why?

7. What role did African-American soldiers play in this war?


Tues. 2/13/07 THE WAR TO END ALL WARS: WWI and Its Results

Due: Nothing due...no homework weekend!! Don't forget that your interview must be arranged by Thurs. 2/15!!


Thurs. 2/15 Meet at the Small Computer Lab for class: you will have time to research so that you can turn in a bibliography next week.

Due:
1) Turn in interview sheet which includes contact with your interviewee, specific focus/topic for your research

2) read pp. 778-794 in Out of Many

Terms:

War Industries Board
Food Administration
Herbert Hoover
Liberty Bonds
National War Labor Board
Espionage Act
Alice Paul
NAWSA
influenza epidemic
Espionage Act 1917
Sedition Act
Schenck v. United States
great migration
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Russian Revolution
Red Scare
A. Mitchell Palmer

Questions to guide your reading:

1. What are the long and short term effects of the war on the US economy?

2. What were the reasons behind the regional differences in supprot of woman suffrage? How does the war impact the suffrage movement?

3. How does the war impact the temperance movement? public health?

4. How did the war affect political life in the US? What techniques were used to stifle dissent? What was the war’s political legacy?

5. How does the war affect the lives of African Americans? Does it improve their status and treatment in society?

6. How does the war affect the labor movement, during the war and after the war

7. Why did Wilson have trouble getting what he wanted in Versailles? Why did he have trouble getting the Senate to ratify the final treaty?

Tues. 2/20/07 Test: Native Peoples and Frontier, Populism, Progressivism Imperialism and World War I

Friday 1/5/07 Introduction to the “Gilded Age”: the Impact of Industrialization


Tues. 1/9/07 ROBBER BARONS OR CREATIVE ENTREPRENEURS?

Due: pp. 648-655, plus 686-689

Terms:

Centennial Exposition of 1876
Thomas Alva Edison
Wilbur and Orville Wright
Vertical integration
Horizontal combination
Andrew Carnegie
Social Darwinism
Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act 1883

Questions to guide your reading:

1. What were the major factors that led to the tremendous industrial boom in the years after the Civil War?

2. Why did this boom also create such huge businesses?

3. What were the major tenets of the Gospel of Wealth?

4. Why did the federal government expand so greatly by 1865?

5. What role did the political parties play in the process of government? Was the system able to make the necessary reforms? Did enough reform get accomplished or did the system insure that critically needed reforms were so thoroughly watered down that no serious changes occurred?

6.Explain how a prominent reformer such as James Garfield might become a leading “machine” politician.



THURSDAY 1/11/07 THE LABOR MOVEMENT

Due:
1) Turn in the sheet that indicates what kind of interview you want to complete for the Oral History Project.

2) Read pp. 656-663, 740 (from Company towns) -743 (to “Bohemian) plus documents that are located on these two websites:

“West Virginia’s Mine Wars” at
http://www.wvculture.org/hiStory/minewars.html

and “I Will Kill Frick” by Emma Goldman at
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/99/

Terms:
Chinese Exclusion Act
Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Questions to guide your reading:
1. How did the rapid growth of industrialization change the nature of work?

2. Describe the unsafe conditions that existed at many factories.

3. How did the Knights of Labor compare to the American Federation of Labor in its goals, membership and success in achieving its goals?

4. How did the rise of industry affect the lives of rural Southerners? How does southern industry remain largely “extractive” and rural?

5. How did African-Americans fit into the newly industrialized economy in the north and the south? What kinds of jobs did they get? How are they treated on the job? How do unions respond to them?

6. Describe the typical “company town” in the Piedmont communities.

7. Be familiar with the working conditions of mining towns like Ludlow, Colorado.(p. 740)


TUESDAY 1/16/07 THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE

Due: read pp. 736 (from “working class”-740 (company towns)
plus pp. 663-677

Terms:

Triangle Shirtwaist fire
tenements
“conspicuous consumption”
Booker T. Washington

Questions to guide your reading:

1. Be able to compare the experiences of the “new immigrants” from Europe with those from Mexico and Japan in the late 19th Century.

2. How did cities change in economy, population and urban space in the decades after the Civil War?

3. Why did immigrants tend to settle in some regions and not in others? See Map 19-2.

4. How did developments of urban transportation affect the growth of cities?

5. Describe the lives of the “new” middle class in the late 19th century.

6. How did immigrant communities preserve some old world customs?

7. How did the education system change to prepare children for their adult roles in the new industrial economy? How did women’s educational opportunities change?

8. How did people in the cities spend their leisure time?

THURS. 1/18/07 "THE MIRROR WITH THE MEMORY"

Due: read Ch. 9, in After the Fact, “The Mirror with the Memory”


MON. 1/22/07 STATUS OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS AFTER RECONSTRUCTION

Due: read pp. 700-703, 746 from “Racism..”-748 to “National Progressivism” plus 2 documents:

1) Booker T. Washington, “Cast Down Your Bucket” at http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/88.
2) W.E.B. Dubois, “The Talented Tenth” read only through the paragraph that begins "All men cannot go to college but some men must" at
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=174

Terms:
nativism
American Protective Association
Jim Crow laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
“Grandfather clauses”
poll taxes
Ida B. Wells
Tom Watson
“talented tenth”
Niagara Movement
NAACP

Questions to guide your reading:

1. Describe the various ways in which African-Americans experienced discrimination and violence in the south in the late 19th Century.

2. How did racism permeate American culture?

3. What were the main ideas of Booker T. Washington?

4. How did WEB DuBois criticize Booker T. Washington?

WED 1/24/07 UNIT TEST: THE GILDED AGE