Week 26: March 1-5, 2k21

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No School Friday, March 5, 2k21 - Teacher Workday

Day 1
In Class: Begin The Gilded Age! 

Gilded Age Doc

Gilded Age Flicks

Tenement Flick

The Men Who Built America:  The Tycoons

How Vanderbilt's Railroads Created Standard Time

The Johnstown Flood:  Carnegie's Fault

How Rockefeller Salvaged His Image as a Tycoon

Henry Ford: The Assembly Line Man

Edison: America's Greatest Inventor

Movie Trailer:  The Current War - Edison vs. Westinghouse/Tesla

1. Pre-Q:  Who do you think is the most powerful person in the United States? (opinionated)
2. Pre-Q:  Why do you think this person/group of people are the most powerful person/people in the United States? (opinionated)
3. Who was the new type of person created after the Civil War?
4. What did the nation need to do after the Civil War?
5. Define gilded.
6. Define monopoly.
7. Define trust.
8. Define laissez-faire.
9. Define labor union.
10. After watching the Gilded Age Intro Flick what was one thing you noticed or learned? (above)
11. Just after the Civil War were there regulations, tax laws, wage laws, or worker protection laws?
12. How many immigrants came to the United States from 1880-1920?
13. How much of America lived in poverty during the Gilded Age?  
14. What is the amount of money one needs to make to be considered in poverty? (today's money)
15. How much of America makes less than $30,000 per year income?
16. Where did people start moving during the Gilded Age?
17. Briefly explain what a tenement is based on the reading, the pictures below the reading, and the flick.
18. What is the difference between horizontal and vertical integration?
19. How is Amazon not a monopoly?
20. What did the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 try to do?
21. Explain how the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 is illustrated/portrayed in the political cartoon on page 8 of the Doc.
22. Who specifically are the "men who built America"?
23. What industry was Cornelius Vanderbilt the tycoon of during the Gilded Age and what was his nickname?  What was one thing Vanderbilt did as a tycoon?
24. What industry was Andrew Carnegie the tycoon of during the Gilded Age?  What did Carnegie do after he sold his business to JP Morgan?
25. Explain why the Johnstown Flood happened and what the effects of the flood?
26. What industry was John D. Rockefeller the tycoon of during the Gilded Age and how was he a ruthless businessman?
27. What are some of the oil companies around today that were once a part of Standard Oil?
28. What industry was JP Morgan a tycoon of?  What were some companies that he invested in or bought?
29. What was Henry Ford's major contribution to the Gilded Age?
30. What were some effects of the automobile? (somewhat an inference)
31. What is the greatest invention of all time?  Yes, I know the answer seems weird and biased in the Doc, and no, I don't care.  It is the correct answer. 
32. Where did cities begin building after the Chicago Fire of 1871?
33. Provide two negative effects of the rise of cities in 1870s-1890s.
34. What do you think were three struggles immigrants face both then (during the Gilded Age) and now? (opinionated)
35. What kind of message do you think America is sending in 1882 by passing a law called the Chinese Exclusion Act? (opinionated)
36. Look at the political cartoon on page 25 of the Doc with the five businessmen telling the immigrant to "keep out" of America.  Explain what you see/notice about this political cartoon in detail.
37. After watching the short flicks about Edison and Tesla, how did these two men revolutionize America? (inference-based answer...You gotta think!)

HW:  None

Day 2

In Class: Continue/Finish the Gilded Age Q's

HW:  None

Day 3

In Class: Continue/Finish the Gilded Age Q's

HW:  None