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

1/31/20

Same as 1/30 entry.

1/30/20

1) Notes ("Race and Politics in the New South")
2) DuBois vs. Washington (Day 2)
--10 minutes to finish questions
--Graded Discussion and hand in

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) Dawes Act  c) Wounded Knee

1/29/20

Same as 1/28 entry.

1/28/20

1) Notes ("Sharecropping") and ("The Political Crisis of 1877")
2) DuBois vs. Washington (Day 1)
a) Short video clip  b) Reading: "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others" (skim)  c) Questions: With paragraph answers  d) Graded Discussion (next class--short time to finish)

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