US History
Lesson Plans
Term 1, 07-08
Day 1, Tuesday, August 21
Dismiss At 2:03
First Day Lesson Plan
Check Out Books
Discuss Homework/Outline Requirements
Independent Work
6.1 Reading & Homework
Homework
Read - America: Pathways To The Present
Chapter 6 - The Expansion Of American Industry, 1850-1900
Section 1 - A Technology Revolution, pages 226-235 (10)
Outline 6.1
Optional Homework
Reading Check p.227, 231, 234
Viewing History p.229, 231, 232, 234, 235
Section 1 Assessment #1-6 p.235
Define Key Terms p.226
Download 6.1 Notes
Day 2, Wednesday, August 22
Dismiss At 2:03
Objective 1.1 Identify the economic issues that faced the United States
Current Events
6.1 Homework - Discuss/Collect
6.1 Notes & Terms
1. Why did people’s daily lives change in the decades following the Civil War?
2. How did advances in electric power and communication affect life for people and
businesses?
3. What effects did the development of railroads have on industrial growth?
4. What was the impact of the Bessemer process on American culture?
patent
productivity
Edwin L. Drake
Thomas Edison
George Westinghouse
Samuel F.B. Morse
Alexander Graham Bell
transcontinental railroad
Promontory Summit
Bessemer process
mass production
John A. Roebling
Possible Activities
Mass Production Simulation
Monopoly Simulation
Video – 1900s
6.1 Guided Reading WS
Complete 6.1 Target Reading Skill As Closure p.226
Independent Work
6.2 Reading & Homework
Homework
Study For 6.1 Quiz
Read - America: Pathways To The Present
Chapter 6 - The Expansion Of American Industry, 1850-1900
Section 2 – The Growth Of Big Business, pages 237-242 (6)
Outline 6.2
Optional Homework
Reading Check p.239
Interpreting Political Cartoons p.240
Interpreting Diagrams p.241
Section 2 Assessment #1-5 p.242
Define Key Terms p.237
Download 6.2 Notes
Day 3, Thursday, August 23
Dismiss At 2:03
Objective 1.1 Identify the economic issues that faced the United States
1-Describe the differences between various business leaders, e.g. “robber barons” and
“captains of industry.”
6.1 Reading Quiz
Current Events
6.2 Homework – Discuss/Collect
6.2 Notes & Terms
1. Why were American industrialists of the late 1800s called both “robber barons” and
“captains of industry?”
2. How did social Darwinism affect American’s views on big business?
3. In what ways did big business differ from smaller businesses?
4. How did industrialists gain a competitive edge over their rivals?
robber barons
captains of industry
philanthropy
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
social Darwinism
oligopoly
monopoly
cartel
vertical integration
economies of scale
horizontal consolidation
trust
Sherman Antitrust Act
Possible Activities
Monopoly Simulation
Video – 1900s
6.2 Great Debates WS – How Should Business Leaders Affect The Economy
6.2 Guided Reading WS
Complete 6.2 Target Reading Skill As Closure p.237
Independent Work
6.3 Reading & Homework
6.4 Reading & Homework
Homework
Read - America: Pathways To The Present
Chapter 6 - The Expansion Of American Industry, 1850-1900
Section 3 – Industrialization And Workers, pages 243-246 (4)
Outline 6.3
Read - America: Pathways To The Present
Chapter 6 - The Expansion Of American Industry, 1850-1900
Section 4 – The Great Strikes, pages 247-253 (7)
Outline 6.4
Optional Homework – 6.3
Reading Check p.245
Viewing History p.243, 245 246
Interpreting Graphs p.244
Viewing Fine Art p.245
Section 3 Assessment #1-5 p.246
Define Key Terms p.243
Download 6.3 Notes
Optional Homework – 6.4
Reading Check p.250, 251, 252
Viewing History p.247, 251, 252, 253
Section 4 Assessment #1-6 p.253
Define Key Terms p.247
Download 6.4 Notes
Day 4, Friday, August 24
Dismiss At 2:03
Objective 1.1 Identify the economic issues that faced the United States
2-Summarize the worker’s responses to factory employment, e.g., Knights of Labor,
American Federation of Labor, socialism, etc.
Objective 1.2 Identify the social issues that faced the United States
3-Describe the geographic and economic factors behind the internal migration from farm
to city.
6.3 & 6.4 Reading Quiz
Current Events
6.3 & 6.4 Homework – Discuss/Collect
6.3 Notes & Terms
1. What factors led to a growing American work force between 1860 and 1900?
2. What was factory work like at the turn of the century?
3. Why was it necessary for entire families to work?
Contract Labor Act
Drought of 1887
piecework
sweatshop
Frederick W. Taylor
division of labor
Jacob Riis
child labor
6.4 Notes & Terms
1. What impact did industrialization have on the gulf between rich and poor?
2. What were the goals of the early labor unions in the United States?
3. Why did Eugene V. Debs organize the American Railway Union?
4. What were the causes and outcomes of the major strikes in the late 1800s?
socialism
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
labor union
Knights of Labor
Terrence Powderly
Jay Gould
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
craft union
collective bargaining
Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies)
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Eugene V. Debs
American Railway Union
industrial union
scab
anarchist
Haymarket Riot
Homestead Strike
Henry Frick
Pinkertons
Pullman Strike
Possible Activities
Mass Production Simulation
Monopoly Simulation
Video – 1900s
6.3 Literature WS – Horatio Alger
6.3 Primary Source WS – Tenement Factories
6.3 Guided Reading WS
6.4 Biography WS – Mary Kenney O’Sullivan
6.4 Comparing Primary Resources WS – On Labor Unions
6.4 Visual Learning WS – Noble Face Of Labor
6.4 Guided Reading WS
Complete 6.3 & 6.4 Target Reading Skill As Closure p.243 & 247
Independent Work
7.1 Reading & Homework
Study For Chapter 6 Quiz
Homework
Study For Chapter 6 Quiz
Read - America: Pathways To The Present
Chapter 7 - Looking To The West, 1860-1900
Section 1 – Moving West, pages 258-260 (3)
Outline 7.1
Optional Homework
Viewing History p.258, 260
Section 1 Assessment #1-4 p.260
Define Key Terms p.258
Download 7.1 Notes
Day 5, Monday, August 27
Objective 1.2 Identify the social issues that faced the United States
1-Analyze patterns of immigration in terms of volume, ethnicity, religion, language,
national origin, settlement locations, and motives for emigrating from their homelands
Review For Chapter 6 Quiz
Chapter 6 Quiz
Collect Chapter 6 Notes
Current Events
7.1 Homework – Discuss/Collect
7.1 Notes & Terms
What conditions lured people to migrate to the west?
Where did the western settlers come from?
How did the American frontier shift westward?
push-pull factors
Pacific Railway Acts
Morrill Land-Grant Act
land speculator
Homestead Act
Exoduster
Possible Activities
Video – 1900s
7.1 Primary Source WS – African American Settlers
7.1 Guided Reading WS
Complete 7.1 Target Reading Skill As Closure p.258
Independent Work
7.2 Reading & Homework
Homework
Read - America: Pathways To The Present
Chapter 7 - Looking To The West, 1860-1900
Section 2 – Conflict With The Native Americans, pages 261-267 (7)
Outline 7.2
Optional Homework
Viewing Fine Art p.261
Reading Check p.262
Viewing History p.261, 267
Map Skills p.264
Interpreting Charts p.266
Section 2 Assessment #1-5 p.267
Define Key Terms p.261
Day 6, Tuesday, August 28
Dismiss At 2:03 - PLC
Objective 1.2 Identify the social issues that faced the United States
5-Explain factors influencing the lives of Native American peoples, e.g., industrialization
in the west, broken treaties, military activity, Dawes Severalty Act of 1887, Boarding Schools, etc.
7.2 Reading Quiz
Current Events
7.2 Homework – Discuss/Collect
7.2 Notes & Terms
What caused changes in the life of the Plains Indians?
How did government policies and battlefield challenges affect the Indian wars?
What changes occurred in federal Indian policies by 1900?
Great Plains
nomad
Native American reservation
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Indian Wars
Sand Creek Massacre
Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868
Black Hills Gold Strike
Red Cloud
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
George Armstrong Custer
Battle of Little Bighorn
Ghost Dance
Massacre at Wounded Knee
Helen Hunt Jackson A Century of Dishonor
Native American Boarding Schools
assimilation
Dawes Severalty Act (Dawes Act)
Indian Territory/Oklahoma Territory
boomers
sooners
Possible Activities
Video – Little BigHorn (Danson)
Video – Far And Away
Video – 1900s
7.2 Visual Learning WS – Westward Expansion into Native American Lands
7.2 Great Debates WS – How Should We Treat The Land
7.2 Comparing Primary Sources WS – On Land Use
7.2 Guided Reading WS
Complete 7.2 Target Reading Skill As Closure p.261
Independent Work
7.3 Reading & Homework
Homework
Read - America: Pathways To The Present
Chapter 7 Looking To The West, 1860-1900
Section 3 – Mining, Ranching, And Farming, pages 268-276 (9
Outline 7.3
Optional Homework
Reading Check p.270,
Viewing History p.268, 272, 273, 275
Map Skills p.269, 271
Interpreting Charts 274
Section 3 Assessment #1-6 p.276
Define Key Terms p.268
Day 7, Wednesday, August 29
Objective 1.1 Identify the economic issues that faced the United States
3-Explain the conflicts among farmers, ranchers, and miners that arose during the
settlement of the “last frontier.”
7.3 Reading Quiz
Current Events
7.3 Homework – Discuss/Collect
7.3 Notes & Terms
How did mining spread in the West?
What caused the western cattle boom?
What was life like for a cowboy on the Chisholm Trail?
How did settlers overcome barriers in farming the plains?
Sutter’s Mill, California
Comstock Lode
placer mining
cow town
Chisholm Trail
long drive
cowboy
cattle barons
homesteader
soddie
dry farming
bonanza farm
Turner thesis
dime novel
stereotype
Myth of the West
Juliette Low – Girl Scouts of America
Possible Activities
Video – 1900s
Video – The Cowboys
7.3 Biography WS – Nat Love
7.3 Guided Reading WS
7.3 Literature WS – Californian’s Tale
Complete 7.3 Target Reading Skill As Closure p.268
Independent Work
7.3 Reading & Bookwork
Homework
Read - America: Pathways To The Present
Chapter 7 - Looking To The West, 1860-1900
Section 4 – Populism, pages 277-282 (6)
Outline 7.4
Optional Homework
Interpreting Charts p. 277
Reading Check p. 278
Viewing History p. 280, 282
Map Skills p. 281
Section 4 Assessment #1-5
Define Key Terms p. 277
Day 8, Thursday, August 30
Objective 1.1 Identify the economic issues that faced the United States
4-Identify the political activities of the Greenbacks, Grangers, and Populists.
5-Analyze the issues and results of the 1896 election as a turning point in American
politics.
7.4 Reading Quiz
Current Events
7.4 Homework – Discuss/Collect
7.4 Notes & Terms
Why did farmers complain about federal post-Civil War economic policies?
How did the government respond to organized protests by farmers?
What were the Populists’ key goals?
What was the main point of William Jennings Bryan’s Cross of Gold speech?
What was the legacy of Populism?
Panic of 1873
Panic of 1893
tariff
money supply
inflation
deflation
monetary policy
Gold Bugs
gold standard
bimetallic standard
silverites
free silver
Greenback Party
Bland-Allison Act
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
Patrons of Husbandry - The Grange
Farmers’ Alliance
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Interstate Commerce Act
Populists
William Jennings Bryan
Cross of Gold speech
Presidential Election of 1896
Possible Activities
Video – 1900s
Activity/Video - Wizard of Oz
7.4 Guided Reading WS
Complete 7.4 Target Reading Skill As Closure p.277
Independent Work
8.1 Reading & Homework
Study For Chapter 7 Quiz
Homework
Study For Chapter 7 Quiz
Read - America: Pathways To The Present
Chapter 8 - Politics, Immigration, and Urban Life, 1870-1915
Section 1 – Politics In The Gilded Age, pages 290-296 (7)
Outline 8.1
Optional Homework
Interpreting Political Cartoons p. 290
Reading Check p. 291
Interpreting Diagrams p. 292
Interpreting Graphs p. 293
Map Skills p. 296
Section 1 Assessment #1- p.296
Define Key Terms p. 290
Day 9, Friday, August 31
Objective 1.1 Identify the economic issues that faced the United States
5-Analyze the issues and results of the 1896 election as a turning point in American
politics.
Objective 2.1 Describe how the progressives and other addressed the problems of industrial
capitalism, urbanization, and political corruption.
2-Describe state and federal attempts to regulate big business, curb labor, protect the
rights of workers and consumers, protect the environment, and restructure the financial system of the United States.
Review For Chapter 7 Quiz
Chapter 7 Quiz
Collect Chapter 7 Notes
Current Events
8.1 Homework – Discuss/Collect
8.1 Notes & Terms
How did big business influence politics during the Gilded Age?
In What ways did government reform the spoils system and regulate railroads?
What effect did the transition from depression to prosperity have on politics in the 1890s?
Gilded Age
Laissez-fair
Credit Mobilier Scandal
subsidy
blue law
civil service
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Ma, Ma, where’s my Pa?
mugwumps
rebate
Munn v. Illinois
Wabash Case
Depression of 1893
Coxey’s Army
Possible Activities
Video – 1910s
Activity/Video - Wizard of Oz
8.1 Guided Reading WS
8.1 Great Debates WS – Money Supply
Complete 8.1 Target Reading Skill As Closure p.290
Independent Work
8.2 Reading & Homework
Homework
Read - America: Pathways To The Present
Chapter 8 - Politics, Immigration, and Urban Life, 1870-1915
Section 2 – People On The Move, pages 297-303 (7)
Outline 8.2
Optional Homework
Viewing History p. 298
Interpreting Graphs p. 299
Reading Check p. 302
Viewing History p. 302, 303
Section 2 Assessment #1- p.303
Define Key Terms p. 297
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