4/24/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Race and Politics in the New South")
2) DuBois vs. Washington (Day 2)
--Finish answers to questions
--Graded Discussion

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 460-461; 464-465; 469-474 ("Wagon Trains, Railroads, and Ranchers") and ("The Fate of the Indians")
Focus your reading on:  a) Exodusters  b) Severalty policy  c) Wounded Knee

4/21/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Sharecropping") and ("The Political Crisis of 1877")
2) DuBois vs. Washington (Day 1)
a) Watch short video clip
b) Reading: "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others"
c) Questions: With paragraph answers
d) Graded Discussion on Monday

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 525-531; 534 ("Race and Politics in the New South")
Focus your reading on:  a) Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)  b) Booker T. Washington's views on segregation (Accommodationist; Atlanta Compromise Address)  c) W.E.B. DuBois' views that disagreed with Washington


American Pop Culture:

1) 1970s Oral History assignment reminder

2) 70s TV (Day 3) ("Good Times") and ("Barney Miller")
--Finish note guide

4/20/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Test 3

2) Homework: Textbook, pages 442-445; 450 ("Sharecropping") and ("The Political Crisis of 1877")
Focus your reading on:  a) Sharecropping  b) Ku Klux Klan  c) Election of 1876/Rutherford B. Hayes

4/18/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Graded Study for Test 3

2) Homework for Thursday: Study for Test 3. Email Mr. Unis outlines and questions.




American Pop Culture:

1970s TV (Day 2) ("M.A.S.H.") and ("All in the Family")
--Continue note guide

4/17/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Double notes ("Presidential Reconstruction") and ("Radical Reconstruction")

Extra Reading covered in the notes:  Textbook, pages 436-441 ("Radical Reconstruction")
Focus terms:  a) Reconstruction Act of 1867  b) Tenure of Office Act/Andrew Johnson's impeachment  c) Election of 1868  d) 15th Amendment

2) Finish Civil War videos
--Discuss/hand in note guides

3) Homework: Study for Thursday's Test 3. Send me outlines and questions!

4/13/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Union Victorious, 1864-65")
2) Test 3 essay questions:

1) Discuss how the following 3 things contributed to the final breakdown between the North and South, leading to secession and the Civil War:
a) Dred Scott Supreme Court decision
b) Lecompton Constitution
c) John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

2) In what ways were the following things both significant and controversial in the last sixteen months of the Civil War?
a) The use of African-American troops
b) Ulysses S. Grant's actions
c) William Tecumseh Sherman's actions

3) Watch "War Is All Hell"
-Finish note guide

4) Homework: Textbook, pages 430-433; 435-436 ("Presidential Reconstruction")
Focus your reading on: a) Lincoln's Reconstruction plan  b) "Radical" Republicans  c) Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan  d) Black Codes  e) Freedmen's Bureau Bill  f) 14th Amendment


American Pop Culture:

1) 1970s Intro Notes

2) Hand out 1970s Oral History assignment (due Tuesday, May 9)

3) 1970s TV (Day 1) ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show")
--With note guide

4/12/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Turning Point: 1863")
2) a) Finish "Valley of the Shadow of Death". Discuss?
    b) Begin "War Is All Hell"  ?
        --Continue note guide

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 417-421; 424-426 ("The Union Victorious: 1864-65")
Focus your reading on:  a) Role of African-American soldiers  b) Ulysses S. Grant's war strategies (Total War)  c) Shenandoah Campaign  d) Election of 1864  e) William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea"  f) Appomattox Court House