| AP American History =^^=
Assignment Sheet #7 The Gilded Age, The West, The Plains Indians, Imperialism, The Progressive Era Monday 3/9--DBQ on 1861-1877 Document analysis Tuesday 3/10--Multiple Choice EXAM: Slavery, Civil War, Reconstruction Due Wed 3/11: Gilded Age Politics. Use chapters 23 (502-526) and 25 (557-589) to fill out handout on Post Civil War Politics and Urbanization. I don’t expect you to go crazy reading all this material, just skim through it as needed to fill in the sheet (Written homework due!) Due Thurs 3/12: The Rise of Big Business in the Gilded Age, Read 500-501 and 534-546; Written homework: (1) What Big Businesses emerged in the Gilded Age and who were the “Captains of Industry” associated with them? (2) In what ways did the federal government either assist or encourage the growth of Big Business? (3) Explain the “Gospel of Wealth”? (4) How did businesses use the 14th Amendment? (5) What was the Interstate Commerce Act? (6) The Sherman Anti Trust Act? (7) What problems did southerners encounter in their attempts to industrialize? (8) What values/ideals became paramount in America during the Gilded Age? Due Fri 3/13: Labor struggles to organize in the Gilded Age, Read 543-556; Written homework: (1) What were the positive and negative effects of industrialization on wage earners? (2) What tools were used by corporations to inhibit the growth of labor organizations? (3) Identify/explain the importance of: The National Labor Union, The Knights of Labor, The Haymarket Incident, The AF of L, The American Railway Union, The IWW Due Monday 3/16: In class DBQ on Labor in the Gilded Age. Homework due: Write a complete introductory paragraph, in the proper format, for the prompt that follows. Also write a brief outline. Prompt: To what extent did organized labor succeed in meeting its goals in the late 1800s? (Hint: what were their goals, what factors worked against them in achieving these goals, would you say that they were mainly successful or unsuccessful during this time period and why. This counts as a quiz grade. Due Tuesday 3/17: Read essay by Robert Worth Miller “Farmers & Third Party Politics” Written homework: (1) How did the Jeffersonian Ideal of an Agrarian Society conflict with Gilded Age values/ideals? (2) What were the downsides to increased productivity resulting from agricultural technology? (3) Why were farmers so concerned with monetary policies? (4) What was the Greenback-Labor Party? (5) What was the “Omaha Platform” of the Populist Party? (6) For what reasons did Populism fail? (7) What arguments could be made that Populism was, at least in part, successful? Skim through pages 608-621 and identify the following: (9) Eugene Debbs (10) Mark Hanna (11) Williams Jennings Bryan (12) The Coxey Army Wed 3/18: In class DBQ on the Farmers in the Gilded Age--Homework due: Outline the following prompt and write a complete introductory paragraph (opening statement, thesis statement, brief proof of thesis statement): Analyze the ways in which technology, government policy, and economic conditions changed American agriculture in the period 1865-1900 and the ways farmers reacted to those changes. Due Thursday 3/19: American Imperialism; Read 623-639, 642-643, 646-649, 652-661 Written homework: Identify/explain the significance of: (1) The Influence of Sea Power on History (2) The causes of the Spanish American War (3) Yellow Journalism (4) The Maine (5) The results of the Spanish American War (6) The problem of the Philippines (7) The Open Door Policy (8) The Boxer Rebellion (9) How did the United States get the Panama Canal? (10) The Roosevelt Corollary (11) The Insular Cases (12) The Gentlemen’s Agreement (13) The Great White Fleet (14) Dollar Diplomacy Due Friday 3/20: Imperialism vs. Manifest Destiny. Written homework due: Write an outline and a complete introductory paragraph for the following essay prompt-- In what ways was late 19th century expansionism similar to early to mid 19th century expansionism; in what ways was it different? Counts as a quiz grade. Due Mon 3/23: (1) Read In the White Man’s Image (it’s very short) and write a one paragraph explanation of how the program described in the article is consistent/inconsistent with previous Indian policies. (2) Practice AP Exam #3 is due. Do it in 55 minutes, by yourself, no researching answers. Counts as only a homework--no point in cheating; let's just see where you stand. Hand it in during class (not at 7:25); circle the questions on the scantron that you might consider omitting so we can see if that would have been a good idea. Due Tues 3/24: The Old West, The Plains Indians; Read 590-597 (Indians) and 600-607 (Mining, Cattle Ranching, Farming in the Old West) Written homework: (1) What impacts did white settlers have on Plains Indians? (2) When did the Reservation system begin and how did it contradict Plains Indian culture? (3) Identify/explain: GA Custer, Buffalo Soldiers, Chief Joseph & Sitting Bull, Helen Hunt Jackson, Dawes Severalty Act, 59ers, Boomtowns, Sooners, The Long Drive, Homesteaders, Sodbusters, Frederick Jackson Turner Due Wednesday 3/25: Read Murder at the Fair, on the assassination of William McKinley and the ascension of Teddy Roosevelt—the beginning of a new age in American Politics Written homework: (1) What demographic changes had taken place in America in the last decades of the 19th Century? (2) Explain the rift which was developing in the Republican Party during McKinley’s 1st term (3) Why was TR seen as a threat to conservative “Old Guard” Republicans? (4) The Stewardship Theory again…what was it, how did TR implement it? (5) How was TR’s personality inexorably linked to his view of the presidency? (6) What were the “Progressives” all about? (7) What were TR’s views on corporate consolidation? (8) How was TR’s response to the 1902 coal strike radically different than previous presidents and their responses to labor issues? (9) What Progressive laws/programs were initiated under TR? (10) How did TR’s Progressivism foreshadow the New Deal and the Great Society? (11) Explain TR’s view that he was BOTH a Jeffersonian and a Hamiltonian! Due Thursday 3/26 : Progressive Era; Read 664-670, 672-677, 680-686… Written homework: (1) People to Know--Identify/explain the significance of: Henry Demarest Lloyd, Thorstein Veblen, Jacob Riis, Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, David G. Phillips, Ray Stannard Baker, John Spargo, Robert LaFollette, Upton Sinclair (2) How can the goals of the Progressives be viewed as both “progressive” (today we would say “liberal”) and conservative? (3) Programs to know—Identify/Explain the significance of: Elkins Act, Hepburn Act, Northern Securities Case, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Newlands Act, Aldrich-Vreeland Act, the “Rule of Reason” doctrine, Payne Aldrich Tariff, The New Nationalism Due Friday 3/27: Wilson’s Progressivism; Read 687-696. Written homework: (1) Explain the difference between Wilson’s “New Freedom” and TR’s brand of Progressivism (2) What impact did the election of 1912 have on the Republican Party? (3) What was the “triple wall of privilege? (4) Describe Wilson’s background, personality, leadership style (funny how they do not mention that he was a racist and a sexist) (5) Identify/explain the significance of: Underwood Tariff, 16th Amendment, Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, Clayton Anti Trust Act, Federal Farm Loan Act, Warehouse Act, Workingman’s Compensation Act, Adamson Act, Jones Act Monday 3/30: Multiple Choice Exam—The Gilded Age, American Imperialism, The Progressive Era |