U.S. History Unit 1 Syllabus

The following packet contains the worksheets and homework sheets for unit 1. You are required to bring this to class daily. This represents 15 daily grades, and also will contain the information that you need to review for your first unit test.

Tuesday: Classwork: Welcome to Class, Map Work, Background information (take notes) Homework: Read Sections one and two of Chapter 5 Answer Guided Reading

Wed: Classwork:Discussion of Chapter 5 (Take Notes), Work on Important People, Work Political Cartoon Worksheet one, Homestead Act Primary Source Sheet, Work on Important Acts, Project Topics Assigned Homework: Read Sections 3 and 4 of Chapter 5, Answer Guided Reading, study for Map quiz

Thursday: Classwork: Map Quiz 50 States, Primary Source sheet Chief Joseph, Discussion ch 5(Take Notes) Primary Source Sheet: The Dawes Act. Homework: Work on important people, Work on important Acts. Homework: Read Sections one and two of Chapter 6, Study for chapter 5 quiz

Friday: Classwork: Quiz ch 5, Discussion of Chapter 6 (take notes), Work on Inventor worksheet, Work on important people, work on important acts, Homework: Read Sections 3 and 4 ch 6 answer guided reading. Finish Gilded Age Project 1(due Mon), Work on Inventor Worksheet part II (Due Tues)

Monday: Classwork: Disscussion of Chapter 6 (Take Notes, Labor Poster worksheet, Primary source Knights of Labor, Sherman Anti-trust Act Homework: Read Sections 1 and 2 chapter 7, complete Inventor Worksheet part II, Study for Labor terms quiz.

Tuesday: Classwork: Labor Terms Quiz, Discussion of chapter seven (take Notes), Industry and Urban growth worksheet, Primary source How the other Half Lives

Homework: Read Sections 3 and 4 ch 7 and answer guided reading. Finish important Acts. Work on Gilded Age Project II (due Thurs)

Wed: Classwork: Disscussion of Chapter Seven (take Notes), Political Cartoon Work, Politics in the Gilded Age sheet, Work on Important people sheet. Homework: Read ch 8 sections one and two and answer guided reading sheet, complete gilded Age project II (due Thursday) study for chapter seven quiz

Thursday: Classwork: Chapter seven quiz, Discussion of Chapter eight (take notes) Work on Important people, Kodak Worksheet, The Talented Tenth worksheet, Lynching Worksheet. Work on flashcards. Homework: Read ch 8 sections 3 and 4, answer guided Reading, Work on Flashcards, Complete important people, Begin studying for Unit test.

Friday: Classwork: Discussion of Chapter eight (take notes), Work on Flashcards, Kagan Activity. Homework: Complete packet, Study for Unit test

Monday: Holiday

Tuesday: Classwork: Review Quiz, Review Homework: Study for Unit test, Complete packet(Test Grade)

Wed. Classwork: Unit 1 test, Pick up new packet: Homework See Unit II Packet

Extra Credit Opportunities for Unit 1

You may complete both assignments

A. Fifty Review Flashcards gives you five points on your unit test

B. Three Sponge activities for Unit 1 gives you an extra quiz grade.

Both assignments must be completed by the day of the Unit test
Gilded Age Projects:

1. Presidential elections:

You will be assigned a candidate:

You will research your candidate so that you can make a campaign poster to support their run for the white house. BE CREATIVE

Your poster should include:

A picture of your candidate

the candidates party affiliation

qualifications of your candidate

platform of your candidate

You will present these to the class. You will need to explain the platform of your candidate, and the outcome of the election

2. Important people

You will be assigned a person

You will research your person so that you can write a three page report on their importance to American History. You will briefly give a biography of your person (where they were born etc...), but the bulk of your paper will be about their importance to American History.

You should have at least three sources (that do not include your textbook or Wikipedia)

You need to make a bibliography page for your paper.

This should be typed, double spaced using Times New Roman 12pt font. If this is a problem, please let Mr. Gardner know.

Inventor/ Innovator Worksheet: name:______

Match the inventor/Innovator with their accomplishment: For some you will have to use

An Encyclopedia or the Internet.

1. ______Elisha Otis A. First used the Assembly line on a large scale

2.______Edwin L. Drake B. Englishman who developed a process for

3.______John Roebling making Steel

4.______W. L.Jenney C. American who developed a process for making

5.______Alexander G. Bell Steel

6.______George Pullman D. Developed the first Practical passenger elevator

7.______Christopher Sholes E. Developed the concept of interchangeable parts

8.______John Deere F. First Patented Barbed Wire

9.______Charles M. Hall G. Developed the Incandescent lightbulb

10.______Montgomery Ward H. Invented Paper Based film & the Kodak camera

11.______Richard Gatling I. invented the Linotype machine, which sped up

12.______Lewis Waterman Typesetting

13.______OttmarMergenthaler J. Invented the Telephone

14.______Eli Whitney K. Invented the Steel Plow

15.______Cyrus McCormick L. Designed the first steel skeleton sksyscraper

16.______George Eastman M. Built a factory and town to make railroad cars

17.______Henry Bessemer N. Drilled the First Oil Well

18.______Joseph Glidden O. Invented the typewriter

19.______William Kelley P. Perfected the rapid fire revolving machine gun

20.______Thomas A. Edison Q. Offered the First mail order catalog

21.______Henry Ford R. Perfected a practical method for smelting

Aluminum

S. Designed the Brooklyn Bridge

T. Invented the mechanical Reapers

U. Invented the Fountain Pen

U. S. History People to Know

Unit 1

For each of the following people write a brief description of why they are important

to U.S. History

Joseph McCoy

Joseph Gliddon

Sitting Bull

George A. Custer

Sitting Bull

Crazy Horse

Chief Joseph

Mary Elizabeth Lease

William McKinley

William Jennings Bryan

George Pullman

William Vanderbilt

Andrew Carnegie

Horatio Alger

John D. Rockefeller

Samuel Gompers

Eugene V. Debs

Terence Powderly

Mary "Mother" Jones

Thomas Nast

William M. Tweed

Jane Addams

Mark Twain

Ulysses S. Grant

James Garfield

Chester A. Arthur

Grover Cleveland

Benjamin Harrison

Louis Sullivan

Frank Lloyd Wright
Frederick Law Olmstead

Daniel Burnham

W.E.B. Dubois

Booker T. Washington

Andrew Carnegie

Joseph Pulitzer

Ida B. Wells

William Randolph Hearst

Thomas Eakins

Frederick Remington

U. S. History Acts to Know

Unit 1

For each of the following write a brief description and why it is important

to U.S. History

1. Dawes Severalty Act 1887

2. Chinese Exclusion Act 1882

3. Interstate Commerce Act 1887

4. Sherman Anti-trust Act 1890

5. Gentleman's Agreement 1907-08

6. Munn v. Illinois 1877

7. Wabash v. Illinois

8. Homestead Act 1862

9. Pacific Railroad Act 1862

10. McKinley Tariff 1890

11. Pendleton Act 1883

12. Plessy v. Ferguson 1896

13. Jim Crow Laws

14. Newlands Act

Political / Cartoon Worksheet 1 Name:______

1. List any captions or labels that you see in this cartoon

2. List any symbols that you recognize in this cartoon

3. If you know this cartoon is about the presidential election of 1872, who is the large man shaking hands?

4. On the back of this sheet briefly describe what is going on in the cartoon.

______

Chapter 5 Guided Reading 1 Name:______

Read Section 1 and 2, and answer the following questions

1. What did the Homestead Act do?

2. Describe the Sand Creek Massacre:

3. Explain the importance of the Bozeman Trail.

5. What did the Treaty of Ft Laramie 1868 do?

6. Describe events leading up to the battle of the Little Big Horn.

7. Describe the Dawe's Act

How effective was the Dawes Act in promoting assimilation of natives into white

culture? Explain your Answer

8. Describe the Ghost Dance Movement

9. Describe the Battle of Wounded Knee

10. Describe the importance of the railroad to the cattle business.

11. Who was Joseph McCoy?

How did he help the beef industry?

12 Describe the real life of a cowboy.

13. Name 3 Major things that ended the era of the long drive.

Chapter 5 Guided Reading 2 Name:______

Read Sections 3, 4, and answer the following

1. Explain some of the hardships that faced homesteaders on the Great Plains

2. Who was Frederick Jackson Turner

3. List and describe four inventions that tamed the Prairies

4. How did the Railroads hurt the farmers on the plains?

5. Explain each of the following:

Deflation

Inflation:

6. Why did Farmers Want Inflation?

7. How did they Propose to have Inflation

8. Explain the problems farmers had with the railroads.

9. What was the Grange?

10. What is Populism?

11. Name Seven Reforms Proposed by the Populist Party.

12. What caused the Panic of 1893?

13. Explain Bimetalism:

Why did people support this idea?

14. Name the Candidates and their parties in the election of 1896.

15. Describe the importance of William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech?

Chapter 6 Guided Reading 1 Name:______

Read sections 1 - 3 answer the following questions.

1. What was the first useful product produced from oil?

2. What 4 states were included in the first U.S. Oil boom

3. What was discovered in the Mesabi Range of Minnesota

4. Explain what the Bessemer process is

5. Look at the Map of Pittsburg on pg 247:

What geographic feature are all the mills located along?

What does this map say about the steel industry during the late 1800’s and

Early 1900’s

6. Name Two inventors who worked with electricity.

7. How did Electricity affect where industries were located?

8. List 3 management techniques that Andrew Carnegie used, to improve his Company

9. What term is used for buying up suppliers, distributors etc… to control every aspect of

production of a product?

10. Buying out your competition to control the market for your product is:

11. Explain Social Darwinism:

12. Who wrote inspirational pulling yourself up by your bootstrap novels?

13. What is an oligopoly?

How is it formed?

14. What is a Monopoly?

15. What is a company who did nothing but buy out the stocks of other companies?

16. Who used Trusts to make huge profits

17. What is the Gospel of Wealth?

18. What was the first Act passed by Congress to Limit Big Business?

Important Notes on the Labor Movement of the Late 19th century

Labor Union: Association of workers formed for mutual benefit and protection. It seeks to represent workers, and tries to win higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions.

During the Late 1800’s Working conditions in factories were horrible. Injuries occurred often, and often workers had to work 14 hour days. Unions sought to help the workers. Unions became more and more popular as industrialization increased.

1899 pay scale

Children 27 cents for 14 hours work

Women $269.00 a year

Men $498.00 a year

Important Unions

National Labor Union: 1866 William H. Sylvius United small, local skilled laborer unions. Had some success in 1868 when congress passed 8 hour workday for gov. employees.

Knights of Labor: 1868 Uriah Stephens. This union reached out to all workers regardless of skill. Women and Minorities were allowed to join.

Supported the 8 hour workday, equal pay for equal work. Used Arbitration as the preferred method for winning demands. Only used strikes as a last resort. Terence Powderly was the most successful president of this union

Knights Declined due to failed strikes and the Haymarket Affair

American Federation of Labor: 1886 Joined various skilled labor unions under one parent union. The first President was Samuel Gompers. The AFL focused on shorter workdays and higher wages. Used Collective Bargaining and Used strikes as a major tactic to win demands. They were very successful until the 1920’s

American Railway Union: founded by Eugene Debs. Included all workers in the railroad industry skilled or not. Shut down the rail industry during the Pullman Strike.

Many Union Leaders especially Eugene Debs began to question Capitalism

(the U.S. economic systerm) They began to embrace Socialism.

Socialism: economic and political system based on gov. control of business, property and an equal distribution of wealth. This appealed most to the lower class (factory workers) because they stood to gain the most. This frightened the wealthy (factory owners) and middle class (business owners, doctors, etc…) because they were fearful of losing their wealth.

Communism: extreme socialism, where the gov. basically controls all aspects of your life. This idea was outlined by Karl Marx in The Communist Manifesto. He called for workers to get rid of capitalism all together.

The Industrial Workers of the World: 1905 This was a Socialist Union that lasted up until the 1920’s Members were called “Wobblies”

Important Strikes:

Great Strike 0f 1877: Our nation’s first major strike. It dealt with the railroads. The B&O railroad and others cut wages, so workers went on strike. Railroads hired scabs to replace the striking workers. The scabs led to riots. Trains stopped running, and our transportation system was crippled. Rutherford B. Hayes called up army troops to end the strike. This was a failure for the workers as their demands were not met.

Homestead Strike 1892: Carnegie Steel’s homestead plant’s president: Henry C. Frick cut worker’s wages. (Carnegie was playing golf in Scotland)

The workers went on strike. Frick hired 300 armed guards from the Pinkerton Detective agency to protect the plant when he hired scabs. The workers attacked the guards, and a gun fight occurred. The workers defeated the guards (9 killed). Frick closed the plant. The Pennsylvania national guard came in to restore order. The plant reopened, but the strike continued for several more months.

Pullman Strike 1894: Pullman had been hard hit by the Panic of 1893, and they had to lay off workers. They had to also decrease the wages of those workers who kept working. Pullman however did not drop the rent prices and food prices in Pullman, IL. Workers were making very little. As the economy improved the wages did not, and this led to the strike. When the Pullman workers Struck the American Railway Union supported them by boycotting trains that had Pullman cars on them. Most trains had Pullman cars on them, so transportation stopped again. Pullman Hired scabs and a riot broke out. Grover Cleveland had to send in troops to end the Strike. Eugene Debs was put in prison for starting a riot (he was leader of the ARU)