Friday Nov 21

Students were given a few opportunities to participate in class game for thanksgiving.

Thursday Nov 20

Students took Unit 3 test

Wed nov 19

Students had time to work on study guide. Any questions students had were addressed and discussed. We also concluded the unit with a clip on the reason Bryan did not win the presidency

Tuesday Nov 18

Students have a test coming up this thursday.  Students also finished looking at a few documents of why the farmers were struggling. It was difficult that they were working hard and doing well and yet losing money. They had to place the blame somewhere and trains and the gold standard were their answer.

Populists handout and questions
Study Guide for Unit 3

Monday 11/17

The class looked at the beginning of the Populist movement. Largely a Farmer's party they sought to improve farmer's problems that were causing foreclosures of farms.
Populist notes

Friday Nov 14

Students looked at the differing views on education to help with equality. The classwork assignment is with the powerpoint.

Quickwrite and Booker T Washington and WEB Dubois notes

Thursday Nov 13

Class today focused on what life was like in the factories and why people at times would try to go on strike. While this was not always successful it was the only way workers could attempt to earn a fair wage, or fair hours. The homestead strike was one of the bloodiest strikes in which at the end of the day 12 people ended up dead. 9 of them were workers from Carnegie's factory. We watched a clip from this scene in the Men who built America. Students had a short packet for homework to do in looking at the good at bad of Industrialists. 

Packet finishing Industrialists

Wed Nov 12

We continued discussing Carnegie and Rockefeller and how these industrialists were the best examples of this time period. It often times meant bringing down a rival through shady tactics but the strong survived.

Monday November 10th

We began to look at Industrialism and Andrew Carnegie and John Rockefeller. Carnegie practiced vertical integration and Rockefeller perfected horizontal integration. We watched the first part of the Men who built America on Rockefeller and saw how he rose to such prominence in America.

Vertical Integration map as well as handout from wed. Discusses working conditions, Carnegie forcing another company out of business and the Homestead Strike.

Intro notes

Friday Nov 7

We finished up discussing the Chinese Exclusion Act and how it impacted not only America but even Riverside. Students had a warmup and then we went over what the Chinese Exclusion act actually did. We finished by taking notes on the start of segregation and it being ruled legal by the court case Plessy vs Ferguson.

Chinese Exclusion warmup and Plessy vs Ferguson notes
Chinese Exclusion Act

Thursday Nov 6

Today we spent most of the time reading George Plunkitt and what he called Honest Graft. It was an overview of how political machines work. Just because they helped people doesn't mean they weren't illegal or criminal. Similar to drug cartel's in Mexico today, while they may do some nice things for orphanages and such, it doesn't mean they are good. Political machines are nowhere near drug cartels but they did get most of their money illegally using graft. They then used that money to stay in power by providing services and assistance to their voters. We finished the class by beginning to look at why America turned on the Chinese and desired to have them excluded from coming to the US in the 1880's.

Chinese Exclusion
 Honest vs Dishonest Graft

Wed Nov 5th

Class website should be updated from last 5 days for those who are not in class. We went over a little of what was covered yesterday and I finished the lecture from Monday. We also discussed a little about Political Bosses and Machines, in particular Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall in New York. The above clip showed in a nutshell how the NY political machine in particular worked.

Tuesday Nov 4

I was out today sick but the class continued looking at the difficulties cities faced with massive overcrowding. One of those instances involved political machines rising up in cities where government officials provided services to get votes, and often times made some money on the side doing it.

Urbanization and Start of Political Machines. Work can be done on handouts and in book.

Monday Nov 3rd

The class looked at current immigration in America and how America's stance on it has changed since the last 19th century through some recent political cartoons on illegal immigration. I also lectured on urbanization and the problems cities faced as massive amounts of people began to flood into cities, particularly New York.

Cartoons to answer bottom of New Colossus HandoutLecture on immigration and eventually political machines

Friday 31st of october

Students finished the month by watching a video clip from the movie An American Tail about a family who traveled to America. It is a cartoon but does a great job of showing the difficulties in the journey and why people came to the US. After discussing the clip students did the 6 terms on page 259 as classwork.

Thursday Oct 30th

 On Thursday we began looking at immigration through the eyes of countless people who traveled to the United States. We looked at the poem that is on the Statue of Liberty "the new colossus" and how it reflects the statue of liberty and millions who have come here.

End of Reconstruction abandoning and Poem on Statue of Liberty