Manifest Destiny and Native Americans

How did the Transcontinental Railroad Transform America? History Channel
Explain, how this railroad changed or transformed America?

Building the Transcontinental Railroad There were three points of view regarding the building of the Transcontinental Railroad...specifically identify each group and their views...let the pictures tell you their story

Meeting of the Rails...
Where did the Union Pacific, Central Pacific railroads originate from? and where did the railroads join?...BE SURE to name the town and state.

Native Americans and the Union Pacific Railroad.....  Video.. Explains the conflict between the railroad and Native Americans

How were the buffalo slaughtered?  Explain why?
Death of the Buffalo. How does this picture support the above reading? Cite specific details from the picture..
 
Native American's Use of the Buffalo  Create a list of 10 items that Native Americans used the buffalo to survive.

Poster # 1 What was offered to people willing to settle on Native American land?
Poster # 2 Describe what this territory offered new settlers.
Poster # 3 What railroad was offering land? Explain the deal they offering to settlers.?
Remember each answer must have specific details from these posters...good luck

Business Genius or Robber Baron

CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY- ROBBER BARONS

Was Carnegie Good or Ruthless?   Read page 95 & questions page 96

Case Study on John D. Rockefeller...Standard Oil
Political Cartoon    Political Cartoon #2  Read & Answer

Andrew Carnegie - Steel
Political Cartoon # 1                 Political Cartoon # 2                               

Boss Tweed & Tammany Hall

Boss Tweed

The most well-known political boss of the age was William "Boss" Tweed of New York's Tammany Hall. For twelve years, Tweed ruled New York. He gave generously to the poor and authorized the handouts of Christmas turkeys and winter coal to prospective supporters. In the process he swindled the public out of millions of taxpayer money, which went into the war chest of Tweed and his cronies.

Boss Tweed                            Thomas Nast

Thomas Nast became Boss Tweeds' worst nightmare.  Nast was able to draw attention to Boss Tweeds' corruption through Political Cartoons

Let's analyze the Political Cartoons that were drawn by Thomas Nast and their meanings.  Using your template gather clues that lead to the meaning of each political cartoon.

Working with your partner choose 5 political cartoons analyze and present.......

Boss Tweed                                                         No Questions Asked

Can the Law Reach Him                                     Bribery & Corruption

Who Stole the People's Money                           That is What is the Matter

Wholesale & Retail                                             City Hall

To the Victor Belong the Spoils                          What is this Message?

 The Typhoon over Tammany                             What the People Must Do About It!


Free Dictionary

Child Labor DBQ Writing

Today you and your classmates are doing a DBQ based on Child Labor during the Progressive Era.

Below you will find a tool that might be handy in answering responses...Good Luck



















NYS Social Studies Exam 2008 -  Child Labor  

Rewordify.com...is a link that allows you to take any type of reading and have that reading/document
translated into the American English we speak today....Good luck and remember only use this site if necessary.......

Shirtwaist Factory Fire - New York City

On March 25th, 1911, a deadly fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York's Greenwich Village. The fire ripped through the factory floor.  -- mostly young immigrant women --What happened after the fire? desperately tried to make their way downstairs. By the time the fire burned itself out, 146 people were dead. All but 17 of the dead were women and nearly half were teenagers. (PBS)


After the fire there was an investigation to understand how the fire occurred.
                                    You job is to investigate the aftermath of the fire. You must decided if the                                             findings were fair or unfair.....Using evidence from the reading.

    CLICK ON  LINKS AND FIND YOUR EVIDENCE;

What happened after the fire?

Testimony From the Fire Part A                             

Testimony From the Fire Part B

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - Political Cartoons

Leap or Die You Decide

Child Labor & Lewis Hine

Lewis Hine was a sociologist and photographer. He was very important in changing child labor laws.












Child Labor Graph
When was child labor at its highest?
When did it decrease?
What is the connection & relationship between child labor, immigration and industrialization?

What do you think the boys might be thinking?
Prepare a presentation of a minute or less expressing what they were thinking.
Bibb Mill - Macon, Ga.

Lewis Hines Gallery
Identify they type of jobs children did between 1870 - 1930
Explain, which picture captured your attention? Why?

After you have finished turn to your handout to complete your assignment!

Life on the Lower East Side

LOWER EAST SIDE, NEW YORK CITY  1885



In the late 1800s many came to New York City seeing their "pot of gold." These immigrants included the Irish, Italians, Russians, Polish, Chinese, and Eastern European Jews. All looking for a better life.



Daily Life on the Lower East Side - Read up on the cost of living during this time period.
                                                          Take notes and share out with the class


Tenement Life on the Lower East Side  Share daily life and compare it to today....are tenements the
                                                                same?


Lower East Side Virtual Tour  Report and tell us...2 images that impacted you and 5 facts you learned

The Immigrant Experience 1880 - 1920

Class Reading Together:
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus & The Angel Island Poem-Angel Island, CA

Find facts that support the journey of immigrants to Ellis Island, NY and Angel Island, San Francisco, Ca.


The Trip & Ellis Island
European Experience to America
                                   

LI Keng Wong's Journey to America


A Note of Interest from the Smithsonian Institute


   

NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

The NAACP was founded in 1909 by W.E.B. Dubois  it is the oldest civil rights organization in the U.S. It was bi-racial organization that  was known as the National Negro Committee that was hugely funded by the Jewish community in New York City.  Their mission was to bring an end the Jim Crow Laws as well as the KKK.

      Use your graphic organizer to gather the facts.

What do you see in a political cartoon?

Plessy v Ferguson

Jim Crow

Jim Crow 2

Jim Crow Song

Irony

List facts showing the early history of the NAACP

Read the history of the NAACP and report the facts.

Who was Dubois?

W.E. B. Dubois

Study the timeline of events and make a decision.  What events were important?

Time Line of NAACP

Reconstruction 1865 - 1877

When the Civil War ended, much of the South lay in ruins. Many people returned to destroyed homes and farms. Harvests of corn, cotton, rice, and other crops fell far below normal. Many farm animals had been killed or were roaming free. These were some of the challenges in restoring the nation.
Reconstruction Began: That start brought many problems to the South and in the end the South and African Americans were left facing many hardships that will live with them nearly 100 after Reconstruction was over....





Your job to go onto any link of your choice to do some research on the KKK....Each group has two links that you may use to gather your information.

Group # 1
Rise of the KKK in 1866-

KKK audio explanations


Group # 2
KKK History

How did the KKK learn to dress so stylish?


Group # 3
KKK during Reconstruction

Does the KKK still exist today? and Where in the U.S.?                                                 .






       

Progressive Leaders

Jane Addams worked to help the poor and to stop the use of children as industrial laborers. She ran Hull House in Chicago, a center which helped immigrants in particular.  She was not alone in this reform movement Ms. Addams had a friend that helped her make her dreams of reform come true she was Ellen Star Gates. 


Jane Addams Good Work
Jane Addams Life
Jane Addams Short Facts

Upton Sinclair exposed the working conditions in the Meat Packing Industry located in Chicago, Illinois.  He was a writer that decided to expose the filthy conditions that existed in these processing plants. 

Upton Sinclair Life
Upton Sinclair Changes America

Lincoln Steffens
Shame of the Cities by Lincoln Steffens

Ida B. Tarbell
Ida Tarbell and Standard Oil
The Woman that took on the Man behind Standard Oil






 

Jacob Riis - How the Other Half Lives

Jacob Riis was an immigrant that came to America from Denmark in the middle of the 1800s at the age of 17.  In order to survive he had many jobs which included: ironworker, carpenter, bricklayer, and salesman.  He went to school and learned English and eventually he got a job as a police reporter with the New York Tribune...(newspaper). His job was to cover crime and that led to his becoming a Muckraker a person the exposed the evils of America.

Through his picture taking of crime in lower Manhattan Jacob Riis became aware of the poverty and hardships existed for immigrants in NYC.  Riis felt the best way to display these issues was to take pictures of the slums and tenements in Manhattan. " A picture is worth a thousand words." Riis taught himself photography and traveled lower Manhattan taking pictures.  He then created a picture book How the Other Half Lives. 

Once Americans saw these pictures they could no longer deny the harsh conditions in which immigrants lived in the largest city in America.  As a result this led to the Progressive Movement.

All groups are to use their graphic organizers to analyze pictures from Riis's book How the Other Half Lives.

Group # 1 - Choose 3 pictures and capture the details of each and record on the organizer.  Remember the organizer is double-sided - follow the directions on each side.

Picture # 1                           Picture # 2                         Picture # 3


Group # 2

Picture # 1                         Picture # 2                         Picture # 3


Group # 3

Picture # 1                         Picture # 2                         Picture # 3