Thinking critical
1.describe the author style in this excerpt-the syle in this writting was catching and honest
2.how does sinclair's way of writing boost his credibility?
It boost his credibiliy because he had facts and supporting evidence.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Progressive Movements Part 1
Progressive Movements Part 1 ReviewDirections:
Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition. Where did the Progressive movement come from?It came from all walks of life with many people behind the movement coming from middle class and dissatisfied industrial workers.What were the goals of the progressive movement?
• Women’s right to vote.• Eliminating political bosses and political corruption
• Fixing basic services in cities which were often controlled by corrupt bosses
• Wanted government to regulate big business and create opportunity for small business
• Reduce gap between rich and poor
• Change conditions of the poorWhat is a muckraker? A socially conscious journalist and artist that dramatized the need of reform.Describe Ida Tarbell’s writing:She wrote how Rockefeller used ruthless methods to run off competitors, charge higher prices, and reap huge benefits.What did Upton Sinclair write about? What influence did it have over gov?Sinclair wrote The Jungle. It detailed horrible conditions of workers in Chicago stockyards, and the horrible conditions of the meat packing industry. Sinclair’s book influenced Congress to quickly pass the nations first legislation regulating the meat, food, and drug industries.
Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition. Where did the Progressive movement come from?It came from all walks of life with many people behind the movement coming from middle class and dissatisfied industrial workers.What were the goals of the progressive movement?
• Women’s right to vote.• Eliminating political bosses and political corruption
• Fixing basic services in cities which were often controlled by corrupt bosses
• Wanted government to regulate big business and create opportunity for small business
• Reduce gap between rich and poor
• Change conditions of the poorWhat is a muckraker? A socially conscious journalist and artist that dramatized the need of reform.Describe Ida Tarbell’s writing:She wrote how Rockefeller used ruthless methods to run off competitors, charge higher prices, and reap huge benefits.What did Upton Sinclair write about? What influence did it have over gov?Sinclair wrote The Jungle. It detailed horrible conditions of workers in Chicago stockyards, and the horrible conditions of the meat packing industry. Sinclair’s book influenced Congress to quickly pass the nations first legislation regulating the meat, food, and drug industries.
Bellringer
Why were Children allowed to work at the dangerous jobs, such as mining?
Schools werenot mandatory. Parents took their children to work with them and the children ended up helping them. By the age of 10-12 children took jobs of their own.
Schools werenot mandatory. Parents took their children to work with them and the children ended up helping them. By the age of 10-12 children took jobs of their own.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Immigrants and Indians Review
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe the process of immigrants coming to America: Industry had brought immigrants from Ireland, Germany, and South and East Europe but they faced many rough conditions when coming to America. They only brought what they could carry, and illness spread. When the immigrants arrived to America, they had to stop at processing stations, for Europeans usually Ellis Island, and for Asians, San Fran at Angel Island. Very few of the immigrants were denied entry.
Describe Immigrant Life in the US: Most of the immigrants to the US worked in factories and generally lived in neighborhoods with similar ethnicities, and faced discrimination because natural born Americans were thought to be superior, and the Chinese immigrants faced much hostility. Congress even passed the Chinese Exclusion Act. Another act by congress was passed which denied handicapped immigrants. However, many of the customs and traditions of the immigrants became a part of America.
Describe the Red River War: The Red River War was a series of conflicts which lead to the defeat of the Southern plains Indians. In result, the southern plains opened up for white settlers and ended southern buffalo herds. The conflicts began because the US Government not being able to keep white buffalo hunters off Indian hunting grounds, food and supplies from the government failed to be delivered, and white lawlessness in their territory.
Describe the battle of Little Big Horn: Prospecting of gold attracted white settlers into the Sioux hunting grounds in 1875, so Indian leaders Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse assembled the Indians to drive the whites out, the US Army was sent in to fight back. There were 2,000 Indian men fighting against 250 cavalry men. The cavalry was annihilated.
Describe the massacre at Wounded Knee: Crazy Horse was captured by the US Army, but Sitting Bull had escaped into Canada, but his arrest was ordered in 1890 after he returned to curtail activities. He and many others were killed when confronted. Indians fled and the cavalry killed them when confrontation occurred at Wounded Knee.
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Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe the process of immigrants coming to America: Industry had brought immigrants from Ireland, Germany, and South and East Europe but they faced many rough conditions when coming to America. They only brought what they could carry, and illness spread. When the immigrants arrived to America, they had to stop at processing stations, for Europeans usually Ellis Island, and for Asians, San Fran at Angel Island. Very few of the immigrants were denied entry.
Describe Immigrant Life in the US: Most of the immigrants to the US worked in factories and generally lived in neighborhoods with similar ethnicities, and faced discrimination because natural born Americans were thought to be superior, and the Chinese immigrants faced much hostility. Congress even passed the Chinese Exclusion Act. Another act by congress was passed which denied handicapped immigrants. However, many of the customs and traditions of the immigrants became a part of America.
Describe the Red River War: The Red River War was a series of conflicts which lead to the defeat of the Southern plains Indians. In result, the southern plains opened up for white settlers and ended southern buffalo herds. The conflicts began because the US Government not being able to keep white buffalo hunters off Indian hunting grounds, food and supplies from the government failed to be delivered, and white lawlessness in their territory.
Describe the battle of Little Big Horn: Prospecting of gold attracted white settlers into the Sioux hunting grounds in 1875, so Indian leaders Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse assembled the Indians to drive the whites out, the US Army was sent in to fight back. There were 2,000 Indian men fighting against 250 cavalry men. The cavalry was annihilated.
Describe the massacre at Wounded Knee: Crazy Horse was captured by the US Army, but Sitting Bull had escaped into Canada, but his arrest was ordered in 1890 after he returned to curtail activities. He and many others were killed when confronted. Indians fled and the cavalry killed them when confrontation occurred at Wounded Knee.
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Inventors And Big Business
Inventors and Big Business ReviewDirections: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition. Describe inventions of Edison and their effect on US: Edison created the light bulb, which now gives light in many buildings of the world. Edison made plans for Central power, which harnesses the electricity we use.Describe inventions of other such as Bell, Bessemer, and Marconi:Bell created the telephone, and in 24 years, there were over 1 million telephones in the US. Bessemer made steel, which is widely used. It leads to skyscrapers and suspension bridges. Marconi invented the wireless telegraph. His invention leads to the radio.Describe how big business tried to maximize profit:Corporations worked to maximize profits by decreasing workers’ pay, paying as little as possible for raw materials, advertising widely, funding research labs for new products, and some looked to form monopolies.Describe how Rockefeller and Carnegie changed big business in the US:Rockefeller used horizontal integration to maximize profits which meant he consolidated all firms in the firms in the business making one giant company. Instead of breaking the law and making a monopoly, he assigned stock to board of trustees who worked companies in his favor called a trust. Carnegie and Rockefeller used vertical integration which was lowering production cost by gaining control of all businesses that went into finished product development.Describe how the gov regulated big business:Congress created interstate commerce commission which investigated unfairness in railroad industry. Congress also passed Sherman Antitrust act which prohibited any trust that acted in restraint of commerce, but took a long time to enforce.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Birth Of Nation Webquest Words
Birth of a Nation Webquest Words
1. Articles of Confederation - the first constitution of the 13 American states, adopted in 1781 and replaced in 1789 by the Constitution of the United States.
2. Shay’s Rebellion - was an armed uprising in Central and Western Massachusetts, (mainly Springfield) from 1786 to 1787. The rebels were led by Daniel Shays and known as Shaysites (Regulators),
3. Great Compromise - compromise was reached yesterday (June 29th, 1787) in Philadelphia combining the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan. This has been a major conflict for quite a while.
4. federalism - the federal principle of government.
5. Three-Fifth’s Compromise - a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the population of slaves
6. Whiskey Rebellion - a revolt of settlers in western Pennsylvania in 1794 against a federal excise tax on whiskey: suppressed by militia called out by President George Washington to establish the authority of the federal government
7. Little Turtle - 1752?–1812, leader of the Miami tribe.
8. Alien and Sedition Acts - A series of laws, passed during the presidency of John Adams at the end of the eighteenth century, that sought to restrict the public activities of political radicals who sympathized with the French Revolution and criticized Adams's Federalist policies
9. Northwest Ordnance of 1787 - An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio
10. Louisiana Purchase - A territory of the western United States extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains between the Gulf of Mexico and the Canadian border.
11. Monroe Doctrine - the policy, as stated by President Monroe in 1823, that the U.S. opposed further European colonization of and interference with independent nations in the Western Hemisphere.
impressments- the act of impressing people or property into public service or use.
12.
13. Star Spangled Banner- the national anthem of the United States of America, based on a poem written by Francis Scott Key on September 14, 1814, andset by him to the melody of the English song To Anacreon in Heaven: officially adopted by the U.S. Congress in 1931.
14. Eerie Canal - is a waterway in New York that runs about 363 miles from Albany, New York on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York at Lake Erie, completing a navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes
15. Samuel Slater- 1768–1835, U.S. industrialist, born in England.
16. Eli Whitney- 1765–1825, U.S. manufacturer and inventor.
17. Horace Mann- 1796–1859, U.S. educational reformer: instrumental in establishing the first normal school in the U.S. 1839.
18. Temperance Movement- is a social movement against the use of alcoholic beverages.
Seneca Falls Convention- a women's rights convention held at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
19.
20. Indian Removal Act- Early in the 19th century, while the rapidly-growing United States expanded into the lower South, white settlers faced what they considered an obstacle. This area was home to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chicasaw and Seminole nations.
Alamo- Southwestern U.S.
a poplar.
21.
22. Frederick Douglas- Frederick Douglass was a former slave who became one of the great American anti-slavery leaders of the 1800s.
23. William Lloyd Garrison- 1805–79, U.S. leader in the abolition movement.
Missouri Compromise- an act of Congress (1820) by which Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase north of latitude 36°30′N, except for Missouri.
24.
25. Nullification Crisis- was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification.
26. Wilmot Proviso- one of the major events leading to the Civil War, would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future, including the area later known as the Mexican Cession, but which some proponents construed to also include the disputed lands in south Texas and New Mexico east of the Rio Grande.[
27. Compromise of 1850- A set of laws, passed in the midst of fierce wrangling between groups favoring slavery and groups opposing it, that attempted to give something to both sides.
Underground Railroad- Also called underground railway. a railroad running through a continuous tunnel, as under city streets; subway.
28.
Harriet Beecher Stowe- Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher, 1811–96, U.S. abolitionist and novelist.
29.
Kansas-Nebraska Act- the act of Congress in 1854 annulling the Missouri Compromise, providing for the organization of the territories of Kansasand Nebraska, and permitting these territories self-determination on the question of slavery.
30.
31. John Brown- 1800–59, U.S. abolitionist: leader of the attack at Harpers Ferry, where he was captured, tried for treason, and hanged.
32. Nat Turner- 1800–31, American black slave leader: led uprising of slaves in Southampton County, Virginia, 1831.
33. Dred Scott- 1795?–1858, a black slave whose suit for freedom (1857) was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court Dred Scott Decision on the grounds that a slave was not a citizen and therefore could not sue in a federal court.
34. Jefferson Davis- 1808–89, U.S. statesman: president of the Confederate States of America 1861–65.
35. Robert E Lee- 1807–70, U.S. soldier and educator: Confederate general in the American Civil War (son of Henry Lee).
36. Anaconda Plan- is the name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War.
border state- U.S. History. the slave states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, which refused to secede from the Union in 1860–61.
37.
38. Stonewall Jackson- 1824–63, Confederate general in the American Civil War.
39. George McClellan- 1826–85, Union general in the American Civil War.
40. Ulysses S Grant- 1822–85, 18th president of the U.S. 1869–77: Union general in the Civil War.
Antietam- a creek flowing from S Pennsylvania through NW Maryland into the Potomac: Civil War battle fought near here at Sharpsburg,Maryland, in 1862.
41.
Gettysburg- a borough in S Pennsylvania: Confederate forces defeated in a crucial battle of the Civil War fought near here on July 1–3, 1863; national cemetery and military park.
42.
Vicksburg- a city in W Mississippi, on the Mississippi River: important Civil War siege and Confederate surrender 1863. 25,434.
43.
Emancipation Proclamation- the proclamation issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in those territories still in rebellion against the Union.
44.
conscription- a compulsory contribution of money to a government during a time of war.
45.
46. total war- a war in which every available weapon is used and the nation's full financial resources are devoted
47. William Sherman- 1820–91, Union general in the Civil War.
48. John Wilkes Booth- 1838–65, U.S. actor: assassin of Abraham Lincoln (brother of Edwin Thomas Booth).
1. Articles of Confederation - the first constitution of the 13 American states, adopted in 1781 and replaced in 1789 by the Constitution of the United States.
2. Shay’s Rebellion - was an armed uprising in Central and Western Massachusetts, (mainly Springfield) from 1786 to 1787. The rebels were led by Daniel Shays and known as Shaysites (Regulators),
3. Great Compromise - compromise was reached yesterday (June 29th, 1787) in Philadelphia combining the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan. This has been a major conflict for quite a while.
4. federalism - the federal principle of government.
5. Three-Fifth’s Compromise - a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the population of slaves
6. Whiskey Rebellion - a revolt of settlers in western Pennsylvania in 1794 against a federal excise tax on whiskey: suppressed by militia called out by President George Washington to establish the authority of the federal government
7. Little Turtle - 1752?–1812, leader of the Miami tribe.
8. Alien and Sedition Acts - A series of laws, passed during the presidency of John Adams at the end of the eighteenth century, that sought to restrict the public activities of political radicals who sympathized with the French Revolution and criticized Adams's Federalist policies
9. Northwest Ordnance of 1787 - An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio
10. Louisiana Purchase - A territory of the western United States extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains between the Gulf of Mexico and the Canadian border.
11. Monroe Doctrine - the policy, as stated by President Monroe in 1823, that the U.S. opposed further European colonization of and interference with independent nations in the Western Hemisphere.
impressments- the act of impressing people or property into public service or use.
12.
13. Star Spangled Banner- the national anthem of the United States of America, based on a poem written by Francis Scott Key on September 14, 1814, andset by him to the melody of the English song To Anacreon in Heaven: officially adopted by the U.S. Congress in 1931.
14. Eerie Canal - is a waterway in New York that runs about 363 miles from Albany, New York on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York at Lake Erie, completing a navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes
15. Samuel Slater- 1768–1835, U.S. industrialist, born in England.
16. Eli Whitney- 1765–1825, U.S. manufacturer and inventor.
17. Horace Mann- 1796–1859, U.S. educational reformer: instrumental in establishing the first normal school in the U.S. 1839.
18. Temperance Movement- is a social movement against the use of alcoholic beverages.
Seneca Falls Convention- a women's rights convention held at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
19.
20. Indian Removal Act- Early in the 19th century, while the rapidly-growing United States expanded into the lower South, white settlers faced what they considered an obstacle. This area was home to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chicasaw and Seminole nations.
Alamo- Southwestern U.S.
a poplar.
21.
22. Frederick Douglas- Frederick Douglass was a former slave who became one of the great American anti-slavery leaders of the 1800s.
23. William Lloyd Garrison- 1805–79, U.S. leader in the abolition movement.
Missouri Compromise- an act of Congress (1820) by which Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase north of latitude 36°30′N, except for Missouri.
24.
25. Nullification Crisis- was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification.
26. Wilmot Proviso- one of the major events leading to the Civil War, would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future, including the area later known as the Mexican Cession, but which some proponents construed to also include the disputed lands in south Texas and New Mexico east of the Rio Grande.[
27. Compromise of 1850- A set of laws, passed in the midst of fierce wrangling between groups favoring slavery and groups opposing it, that attempted to give something to both sides.
Underground Railroad- Also called underground railway. a railroad running through a continuous tunnel, as under city streets; subway.
28.
Harriet Beecher Stowe- Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher, 1811–96, U.S. abolitionist and novelist.
29.
Kansas-Nebraska Act- the act of Congress in 1854 annulling the Missouri Compromise, providing for the organization of the territories of Kansasand Nebraska, and permitting these territories self-determination on the question of slavery.
30.
31. John Brown- 1800–59, U.S. abolitionist: leader of the attack at Harpers Ferry, where he was captured, tried for treason, and hanged.
32. Nat Turner- 1800–31, American black slave leader: led uprising of slaves in Southampton County, Virginia, 1831.
33. Dred Scott- 1795?–1858, a black slave whose suit for freedom (1857) was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court Dred Scott Decision on the grounds that a slave was not a citizen and therefore could not sue in a federal court.
34. Jefferson Davis- 1808–89, U.S. statesman: president of the Confederate States of America 1861–65.
35. Robert E Lee- 1807–70, U.S. soldier and educator: Confederate general in the American Civil War (son of Henry Lee).
36. Anaconda Plan- is the name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War.
border state- U.S. History. the slave states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, which refused to secede from the Union in 1860–61.
37.
38. Stonewall Jackson- 1824–63, Confederate general in the American Civil War.
39. George McClellan- 1826–85, Union general in the American Civil War.
40. Ulysses S Grant- 1822–85, 18th president of the U.S. 1869–77: Union general in the Civil War.
Antietam- a creek flowing from S Pennsylvania through NW Maryland into the Potomac: Civil War battle fought near here at Sharpsburg,Maryland, in 1862.
41.
Gettysburg- a borough in S Pennsylvania: Confederate forces defeated in a crucial battle of the Civil War fought near here on July 1–3, 1863; national cemetery and military park.
42.
Vicksburg- a city in W Mississippi, on the Mississippi River: important Civil War siege and Confederate surrender 1863. 25,434.
43.
Emancipation Proclamation- the proclamation issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in those territories still in rebellion against the Union.
44.
conscription- a compulsory contribution of money to a government during a time of war.
45.
46. total war- a war in which every available weapon is used and the nation's full financial resources are devoted
47. William Sherman- 1820–91, Union general in the Civil War.
48. John Wilkes Booth- 1838–65, U.S. actor: assassin of Abraham Lincoln (brother of Edwin Thomas Booth).
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