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American History
Week 1 |
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Assignments |
Learning Target |
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Monday |
-Overview of AH
- Course Syllabus
- Classroom Do's and Don'ts
- Political Spectrum |
- Parent Contact
- Syllabus Questions
- Student Release Form |
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Tuesday |
- Government
- Economics |
- Know Your Rights!
- Congratulation: You're a Politician |
- Identify the right established in the US constitution.
- Discuss civic competency and awarness. |
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Wednesday |
- Government
- Economics
- Expansion of Industry PPT
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- Review Government and Economics
- QUIZ 1/27
- Notebook #1
- Document Analysis - Telegraph/Telephone
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-Explain how the abundance of natural resources, new recovery and refining methods, and new uses for them led to intensive industrialization.
- Identify inventions that changed the way people lived and worked. |
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Thursday |
- Government
- The Age of the Railroad
- Big Bussiness and Labor
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- Government Quiz
- NB #1
- Big Business - Industry Consolidating (In-Class)
- Case Study: John D. Rockefeller |
- Identify the role of the railroads in unifying the country.
- List positive and negative effects of railroads on the nation’s economy.
- Summarize reasons for, and outcomes of, the demand for railroad reform.
- Identify management and business strategies that contributed to the success of business tycoons such as Andrew Carnegie.
- Explain Social Darwinism and its effects on society.
- Summarize the emergence and growth of unions.
- Explain the violent reactions of industry and government to union strikes. |
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Friday |
- Big Business and Labor
- The New Immigrants |
- NB #1
- Working in the Sweatshops
- US Immigration Map
- Homestead Act WKST |
- Identify immigrants’ countries of origin.
- Describe the journey immigrants endured and their experiences at United States immigration stations.
- Examine the causes and effects of the nativists’ anti-immigrant settlement. |
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| Last Updated: 8/31/11 |
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