Good job on you tests today ladies

For fun and info: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/26/historical-facts-time_n_4832325.html#slide=1115596


Hw: Finish The Grapes of Wrath
complete the page of your take-home test

Honors: African American inventions project
read chapter 1 and 3 in your Different Mirror text

Study Smart Note Taker Summary

• Steps for Analyzing Documents:

1. Describe→ What  do you see? What is going on?
2. Analyze elements→ How was it created? How is it arranged?
3. Interpret the message→ What does it intend to communicate?
4. Conclude→ Why was it made? For whom?

• Muckraker: an investigative reporter
• Little kids worked in factories, mines, and other dangerous places
• Political bosses were all for the corruption because it helped them.
• Groups against child labor started because child labor is cruel and immoral

• Activism:
• actively working for something you believe
• a practice of doctrine that emphasizes direct vigorous action in support of or in opposition to a direct side of an argument.

Alcatraz:

• Contains one of the oldest lighthouses on the west coast
• Served as a jail until it was closed down because it was too expensive to keep up.
• Indian Occupation:
• 1969: Richard Oakes, a Mohawk Indian, and a group of Indian supporters set out in a chartered boat, The Monte, to symbolically claim the island for the Indian population.
• The Native Americans had been feeling lost because of the many times they were relocated and the poverty they lived in so they just wanted to unite with others and finally settle in an area.
• The Occupation lasted through until June 11, 1971
• The name “Indians of All Tribes” was adapted for the group
• The federal government initially insisted that the Indian people leave the island, placed an ineffective barricade around the island, and eventually agreed to demands by the Indian council that formal negotiations be held.
• When Oakes’ daughter fell down stairs and died and he moved away, the occupation became chaotic.
• Shortly after the government cut off the water supply, a fire broke out and burnt three historical buildings.
• On June 10, 1971, armed federal marshals, FBI agents, and Special Forces police swarmed the island and removed some women, children, and men which ended the occupation.
• The underlying goals of the Indians on Alcatraz were to awaken the American public to the reality of the plight of the first Americans and to assert the need for Indian self-determination.
• As a result of the occupation, both directly and indirectly, the official government policy of termination of Indian tribes was ended and a policy of Indian self-determination became the official U.S. government policy.

Get ready for Alcatraz!

Homework for tomorrow
study for your unit 1-3 quiz
finish the first set of questions in your journal
then watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYcvmnk7oXU
answer trailer questions
come prepared to discuss tomorrow


Reminders-
you need to finish the Grapes of Wrath for next Wednesday, plan accordingly
Alcatraz is cold! dress warmly

Weekend Homework

History
garment worker letter (please include at least 5 historical facts)
read Spanish-American War documents (in your email). Source and contextualize them before you answer the question: Why did the United States invade Cuba?
remember, your Gilded Age project is due Friday (you may bring it for me Thursday or leave it in my box Friday).


English
complete vocab review for units 1-3 (quiz Tuesday)
read and annotate chapters 24-26

Hannah's Notes (last week's, sorry I was a little slow on the upload)

• Lincoln wins the election because he chose a vice president, Johnson, from a border state.
• Johnson is not a very good president. (REALLY BAD)

Industrial Society (p486-487)

• Civil War fought by farmers
• 1898 America= Industrial Nation
• People flocked to settle in cities. Cities grew. Economic and technological change came swiftly.
• Industrial employment opened up many jobs.
• These changes challenged individualism.
• Large armies were dispatched to subdue Indians.
• Growing bands of reformers clamored for government regulation oof private enterprise.
• Americans struggled to adapt old ideals of private autonomy to the new realities of industrial civilization.
• With economic change came social and political turmoil.
• Labor violence brought bloodshed.
• Small farmers were squeezed by debt and foreign competition and rallied behind the peoples or populous party, a radical movement of the 1880’s and 1890’s, that attacked the power of wall street, big businesses, and the bank.
• Anti-immigration sentiment swelled
• Indians lost land and buffalo herds
• South is largely untouched by the industrial revolution
• New wealth and power of Industrial America nurtured a growing sense of national self-confidence

Reconstruction

• Presidential reconstruction: 10% plan: Once a seceded states’ 10% (of the number of voters in the 1860 pre-war election) pledged to abide by emancipation, they could enter the Union
• Congressional reconstruction: Wade-Davis Bill: Required 50% of state to pledge allegiance to get into Union
• Some radicals are happy when Lincoln is assassinated because they wanted harsher punishment for the South, others happy because they think Johnson will be soft on south.  However, they were let down with Johnson because he followed Lincoln’s ideas
• Black Codes
• Laws passed throughout the South to restrict rights of emancipated Blacks
• To negotiate labor contracts
• Increase Northerners criticism of Johnson’s reconstruction policies
• Military Reconstruction
• Divided South into 5 military districts each commanded by Union general and policed by blue clad soldiers, about 20 thousand in all
• Stringent conditions for readmission of seceded states
• Usurped certain functions of the President as Commander-in-Chief, but set up a marshall regime of dubious legality
• Johnson was a bad President
• Not strong, “dead dog”
• Made bad choices which caused clashes
• Bad speechmaker
• Vetoed a lot of things which were good for the country
• Called a tailor President
• Not good politician
• Did a lot of things that were extra-Constitutional
• Johnson clashed with Congress
• Republicans feared Democrats would join with South and win control of Congress
• Johnson disturbed the Congressional Republicans by announcing that the recently rebellious states had satisfied his conditions and that in his view the Union was now restored
• The clash between him and Congress exploded into the open when he vetoed a bill extending the life of the Controversial Freedman’s Bureau
• Freedman’s Bureau
• Blacks have no skill, no knowledge to be free, so they created Freedman’s Bureau
• Meant as a welfare agency
• Food
• Clothing
• Education
• Medical Care
• Oliver Odhalon created it
• 40 acres and a mule, never happened
• Carpetbaggers: A term Southerners used for Northerners who settled in the South during the Reconstruction era
• Taught Blacks to read
• South hated it and Johnson hated it, it eventually stopped in 1872
• Radical Republican
• Before Restoration, the Republicans wanted it’s social structure uprooted, the haughty planters punished, and the newly emancipated Blacks protected by Federal Power
• Secretly happy when Lincoln was killed
• Lincoln vs. Radical Republican
• Klu-Klux-Klan
• Founded in Tennessee 1866
• Wanted White supremacy
• Against Blacks, immigrants, and religious people
• Wore sheets and rode on horses at night, burning crosses and other things
• Killed, mutilated, and flogged
• A Louisiana Parish in 1868, whites murdered and 200 victims wounded
• Klans became refuge to numerous scoundrels and bandits
• Congress made the Force Acts for Federal Troops to intimidate them

The Gilded Age

• Called so because it was “painted over in Gold” not actually as great as it sounds, only appears so -given the satirical title by Mark Twain
• Railroad building creates jobs
• Goldrush causes western migration
• People in Riches
• Corrupt Government
• Factory Owners
• Railroad Owners
• Carnegie and Rockefeller (Iron/Steel production and Oil)
• Moving Up
• Irish
• Chinese
• People living in Rags
• Factory Workers
• Farmers
• African-Americans
• President Chester-Arthur
• Started Civil service reform
• President Garfield
• Was president for a very short time until assassinated
• Big Four: Bring Railroads west and become very rich
• Distribution of Wealth: People at the top get all the money
• Chinese Exclusion Act: Prohibited Chinese Immigration in 1882
• Americans were mad that the Chinese took many of the jobs also by 1882 the Railroads were pretty much finished so the Chinese weren’t needed as bad
• Birthright Citizenship: When a person becomes a citizen because they were born in the country

Wed Homework

English Homework
chapt 23-26 for Tuesday
revise essay for Tuesday

History Homework
"Italians" 564-565
"Narrowing the Welcome Mat"
"Booker T. Washington" through "Prohibiting Alcohol" 554-564

Monday Homework

English
complete character chart for tomorrow's timed write
read chapt 22-23 (due Wed)
bring Grapes and vocab book to class


History
review ppt online
review Homestead strike and other labor union sections of chapt 24

Thursday (and weekend) Homework

English
study for vocab quiz on unit 2 (click link for online quizlet flashcards)
Read chapters 20-21 in The Grapes of Wrath and read for character development. We will be looking at changes in characters throughout the novel as we discuss the book next week.

Note: DO NOT USE clifffsnotes, schmoop, sparknotes, gradesaver, etc. Those sites prevent you from building your own literary analysis skills. Please do your own work and use your own ideas. I've noticed too strong a trend on these sites in class. Let's build your brain, not those sites' bottom line.

History
read chapter 24 from "Gospel of Wealth" on
read and annotate the next two pages in your DBQ packet

Wednesday Night Homework

English:
study for unit 2 vocab test (monday)
read chapt 18-19 Grapes of Wrath
2 paragraphs about the figurative language you found. When is it just an image and when does it take on more meaning as a symbol?


History:
read "Spanning the Continent with Rails" through "Wrongdoing in Railroading" and "The Gospel of Wealth"
Complete DBQ write-up

Homework for Tuesday

English:

1. complete unit 1 vocab
2. make corrections to your compare and contrast essay using peer edit comments
3. read chapters 14-17 of Grapes of Wrath. Find a textual examples where the author is showing you the landscape in a new way

History:

• history hw is cancelled for tonight because of a hiccup. Check back tomorrow for updates