2/11/20

1) Notes ("The Roots of Expansion")
2) Any remaining make-up presentations
3) Extra Credit in-class opportunity

4) Homework: Textbook, pages 609; 612-613; 616-622 ("An American Empire")
Focus your reading on:  a) Reasons for going to war with Spain  b) William McKinley/USS Maine  c) Filipino "insurrection"/Emilio Aguinaldo

2/10/20

Same as 2/7 entry.

2/7/20

1) Notes ("Urbanization") and ("City Life")
2) Continue/finish Late 19th Century Presentations (Day 2)

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 604-609 ("The Roots of Expansion")
Focus your reading on:  a) Imperialism  b) Alfred T. Mahan's proposals

2/6/20

Same as 2/5 entry.

2/5/20

1) Notes ("Industrial Capitalism Triumphant") and ("The Politics of the Status Quo, 1877-93")
2) Individual Presentations (Day 1)
--Points for Title/Visual, Typed Info, and Presentation

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 544-550; 556-563; 566 ("Urbanization") and ("City Life")
Focus your reading on:  "Dumb-bell" tenements

2/4/20

Same as 2/3 entry.

2/3/20

1) Notes ("Wagon Trains, Railroads, and Ranchers") and ("The Fate of the Indians")
2) Late 19th Century Individual Presentations (Prep Day-Chromebooks-Google Classroom)
-Present starting next class day

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 486-487; 490-491; 494-495; 518-519; 521; 523 ("Industrial Capitalism Triumphant") and ("The Politics of the Status Quo, 1877-93")
Focus your reading on:  a) Andrew Carnegie  b) "Gilded Age"/Laissez-faire  c) Social Darwinism  d) Political machines