U.S. History 9208 http:students.resa.netmilewski

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U.S. History 9/2/08 http//students.resa.net/mile
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• OBJECTIVE First day of school administrative
  stuff.
• I. Welcome Back ?
• II. Attendance
• III. Distribution of
• -syllabus, points, and test dates
• -textbooks
• -desks, fans, floor, bags
• IV. Homework
• V. Wizard of Oz
• -examination of populist work

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Important Stuff

• Web-site
• http//students.resa.net/milewski
• Homework Due Friday 9/5/08
• 1.) Book covered
• 2.) Syllabus signed and returned
• Homework Due Monday 9/8/08
• Chapter5 Assessment p.226-227
• -Terms Names (1-10)
• -Main Ideas (1-8) 
• Chapter6 Assessment p.250-251
• -Terms Names (1-10)
• -Main Ideas (1-2,5-8)

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The Wizard of Oz
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U.S. History 9/3/08http//students.resa.net/milew
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• OBJECTIVE Examine the Culture Clash on the
  Prairie (5.1)
• I. Journal 1 pt. A
• -Read The Government Restricts Native
  Americans p.204
• -Answer question B p.204
• -Read Bloody Battles Continue p.206
• -Answer question C p.206
• II. Journal 1 pt. B
• -notes Westward expansion and Native American
  reactions
• III. Guided Reading Culture Clash
• IV. Homework Due Friday!
• 1.) Book covered
• 2.) Syllabus signed and returned

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Important Stuff

• Web-site
• http//students.resa.net/milewski
• Homework Due Friday 9/5/08
• 1.) Book covered
• 2.) Syllabus signed and returned
• Homework Due Monday 9/8/08
• Chapter5 Assessment p.226-227
• -Terms Names (1-10)
• -Main Ideas (1-8) 
• Chapter6 Assessment p.250-251
• -Terms Names (1-10)
• -Main Ideas (1-2,5-8)

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Plains Indians

• The Native Americans who lived on the Great
  Plains followed a way of life the centered on the
  horse buffalo.
• After the Civil War (1861-1865) thousand of white
  settlers moved to the Great Plains.
• Some traveled searching for gold, others to own
  land. They argued that because the Native
  Americans had not settled down on the land, white
  settlers could stake their claim.

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Clashes

• The Native Americans and the white settlers often
  clashed over land. The Army was on the side of
  the settlers.
• After Little Big Horn and other battles, the U.S.
  Government supported the position of
  assimilation. It meant that the Natives were to
  live as whites (stop following the buffalo and
  start a farm)

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The Dawes Act 1887

• The Dawes Act on 1887 broke up the reservations
  and gave some land to each Native American
  family.
• The plan failed because they were cheated out of
  the best land and had little success farming.
• To make matters worse, by 1900 most of the
  buffalo were killed by whites.

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The Ghost Dance

• The Sioux adopted something called the ghost
  dance.
• They hoped it would bring the buffalo back.
• It made the Army nervous and the rounded up a
  group of Sioux including Sitting Bull.
• When the Army tried to take the Sioux weapons a
  fight broke out and the Army killed 300 unarmed
  Sioux. This was the Battle of Wounded Knee.

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Cattle

• Cattle Ranching became big business after the
  Civil War.
• Growing cities increased the demand for beef.
• Between 1866 1885 55,000 cowboys worked the
  plains. 12 were Mexican and 25 were African
  American.
• Cattle were driven from Texas to Kansas where
  they were shipped by rail to Chicago.

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U.S. History 9/4/08http//students.resa.net/milew
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• OBJECTIVE Examine Settling the Great Plains,
  Farmers, and Populists. (5.2 5.3)
• I. Journal 2 pt. A
• -Read Gold Mining p.212-213
• -How many people set out to find gold in Alaska?
  How many struck it rich?
• -Examine The Plight of the Farmers p.220
• -Answer Skillbuilder questions (1-2) p.220
• II. Journal 2 pt. B
• -notes Farmers
• III. Chapter5.2 5.3 Review Activity
• IV. Geography Application Activity

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Settlers Move West to Farm

• 1850-1871, the govt. gave railroad companies land
  to lay railroad track.
• Veterans and immigrants did most of the work.
• The 1st transcontinental railroad was completed
  in 1869 in Utah.
• Homestead Act (1862) offered free land.

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Challenges of the Plains

• Prairie life was difficult droughts, fires,
  floods, etc.
• Pioneers built homes in the sides of hills
  (dugouts) or out of sod (soddies).
• Men and women worked the land. Women made
  clothes, hauled water, canned fruits and
  vegetables, etc.
• Farming inventions (pg.217)
• Farmers were in debt.
• Bonanza farms huge farms (created even more
  debt).

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BREAK

• Team up with a person near you.
• Quickly answer the question assigned to you.
• BE READY You might have to share!
• How did the railroads help open the West?
• How did government policies encourage settlement
  of the West?
• How did new inventions change farming in the
  West?
• Why were farmers in debt?

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Farmers Unite

• Farmers were in trouble farm land was becoming
  scarce, farmers couldnt pay loans, shipping was
  expensive.
• No more greenbacks. Farmers wanted money backed
  by gold and silver.
• Grange founded by Oliver Hudson Kelley fought
  against railroads, and helped farmers organize.

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Rise and Fall of Populism

• Populism the movement of the people (ease
  farmers debt, give people greater voice in
  govt.).
• Wanted increase in supply, federal loans,
  eight hour work day, restricted immigration.
• Populist party wanted bimetallism gold or
  silver backed money.

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Rise and Fall of Populism

• 1896 Presidential Election
• William McKinley (Rep) against William Jennings
  Bryan (Dem).
• Populist Party supported Bryan but McKinley won.
• Populism collapsed leaving two legacies 1. That
  their voices could have political impact and 2.
  List of reforms (many that would be enacted in
  the 20th century).

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U.S. History 9/5/08http//students.resa.net/milew
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• OBJECTIVE Examine Industry Labor Unions. (6.1
  6.3)
• I. Journal 3 pt. A
• -Examine the Geography Skillbuilder p.231
• -Answer questions (1-2) p.231
• -Examine the Geography Skillbuilder p.239
• -Answer questions (1-2) p.239
• II. Journal 3 pt. B
• -notes Unions
• III. Chapter56 Review

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Andrew Carnegies Innovation

• Entered steel business in 1873
• Management Practices
• 1. Make products better (machinery/techniques)
• 2. Attracted talented people with stock
  options.
• Wanted to control steel industry.
• - vertical integration bought out suppliers
• - horizontal integration bought out competitors

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Social Darwinism and Business

• Social Darwinism theory that success failure
  in business were governed by natural law and that
  no one could intervene.
• Social Darwinism explained Carnegies success and
  also the class structure in America.

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Fewer Control More

• If you cant beat em, join em lots of
  horizontal integration (mergers)
• Trusts kind of like a merger (pg.243)
• Monopoly complete control over an industry.
• Sherman Antitrust Act illegal to form a trust
  that interfered with free trade between states or
  with other countries.
• Industrial growth was concentrated in the North.

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Unions

• Factory work was long, hard, unsanitary, and
  unrewarding (pg.244-245).
• Workers joined together to fight for change.
• Craft unionism included skilled workers from
  one or more trades.
• Industrial unionism all laborers in a specific
  industry.
• Many union groups won working rights.

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Strikes Turn Violent

• Sometimes strikes interfered with production or
  peoples lives.
• Strikes became violent.
• Scabs strikebreakers
• Women were banned from many unions.
• Employers became fearful of powerful unions and
  started refusing to deal with them.
• Employers turned to the Sherman Antitrust Act and
  said strikes, picket-lines, and boycotts
  interfered with interstate trade.