Entry 1 - 1/23/2024 Ol Blue Ch 13 - Pg 415
IDENTIFY THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PLACER AND QUARTZ MINING.
HOW DID THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD/SILVER AFFECT THE FRONTIER?
WHAT WERE THE ATTITUDES OF RANCHING ON THE GREAT PLAINS IN THE EARLY 1800S?
Entry 2 - 1/24/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 13 - Pg 415
What were Vigilance committees?
What is open range?
What had changed people’s incentive to round up longhorn cattle from before the Civil War to after it? 417
Entry 3 - 1/26/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 13, Pg 418
Who was Nat Love?
Why was barbed wire viewed more of a threat than an opportunity early on?
What was meant by the term, “Rain Follows the Plow”? 421
Entry 4 - 1/29/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 13 Pg 422
What was the Morrill Act
What is a sodbuster?
Entry 5 - 1/30/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 13 Pg 426
Identify 10 tribes that lived on the Great Plains. Google
What led to the Dakota Sioux uprising in 1862?
Why did Native Americans surrender at Fort Lyon?
1/31/2024 - Wednesday
Plains Indians WebQuest
Entry 6 - 2/1/2024 - Ol Blue CH 13 Pg 428
Why was the Indian Peace Commission doomed to fail?
Why did the railroad companies hire hunters?
Why was Custer sent into Montana territory?
What does is mean to assimilate the Native Americans?
Charlie Russell Artwork Assignment
https://www.charlesmarionrussell.org/
Entry 7 - 2/6/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 13 Pg 423
Where was the land big land rush at on the Plains in 1889?
Why was it concerning to many that the Census Bureau reported that there was no longer a frontier?
2/9/2024
Movie Questions: Dances With Wolves. 1990
Why does John Dunbar ride his horse in front of the Confederate Army?
Why does he choose a post on the Frontier?
What is the shape of Fort Sedgewick?
What was the cabin at the fort made of?
At this point in the film, what are his intentions? (Why does he want to be here?)
Why do the kids try to steal Dunbar’s horse?
Why are the Lakota hesitant to kill dunbar?
why does dunbar go to the lakota village?
What did John Dunbar do to gain the respect of the Indians
What did they encounter when they first caught up to the herd of buffalo?
Who had done this to the buffalo?
What did Wind in His Hair do with the Buffalo that Dunbar killed?
Industrialization
Entry 1 - 2/15/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 14 Pg 436
In 1860, roughly how many Americans worked in Industrial jobs?
What is a country’s Gross National Product?
What factors contributed to America’s Industrial success between the Civil War and 1914?
What is meant by Laissez Faire economics?
Entry 2 - 2/16/2024 - Ol Blue Pg 439
How was the US able to industrialize much faster in the mid-1800s than European countries did?
Identify the importance of Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison?
Friday - 2/26: Gilded Age WebQuest
Entry 3 - 2/21/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 14 Pg 443
What did the government offer the railroad companies to speed the construction along?
Which railroad hired thousands of Chinese workers?
What is meant by the “railroad consolidation” that happened in the late 1800s?
Why were the time zones created?
Entry 4 - 2/22/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 14 Pg 448
What is a Corporation?
Define Economies of Scale, Fixed costs, and Operating costs
What is the difference between Vertical and Horizontal Integration?
What is a Monopoly?
Entry 5 - 2/27/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 14-15
HOW DID INDUSTRIALISM AFFECT WORKING CLASS CONDITIONS AND THE STANDARD OF LIVING? - PG 455
What led to the Haymarket Riot?
According to the Map on Pg 465, what is the difference between “new” immigrants and “old” immigrants?
What were some of the Push-Pull factors that brought immigrants to America?
Entry 6 - 2/28/2024 - Ol Blue CH 15 Pg 466
What was the name of the main immigration station on the East Coast?
What is Nativism?
What are Tenements? - Pg 471
Thursday - 2/29/2024 - Assignment
Immigration WebQuest
Friday - 3/1/2024 - Video Questions
Men Who Built America epsiode 4
Entry 7 - 3/5/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 15 Pg 477
Why is this era called the Gilded Age?
What is Individualism?
What is Social Darwinism?
Gilded Age movie Poster Project
Canva website for creating a poster. Use the link below
Movie Poster Rubric - 35 points
Title of Movie – 5 points
3 images – 5 points
1 original image – 10 points
200-word script - 15 points
Typed - 5
Spelling – 5
Originality/historical accuracy – 5
Entry 8 - 3/6/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 15 Pg 481-2
How did some people think society’s problems could be fixed?
What was Edward Bellamy’s book, “Looking Backward” about? 483
Friday - 3/8/2024
Jacob Riis WebQuest
Quiz Tomorrow
Chapter 14-15 Review
Becoming a World Power
Entry 1 3/13/2024 - Ol Blue - Ch 17 sec 1
DEFINE IMPERIALISM AND PROTECTORATE
HOW DId manifest destiny FACTOR INTO U.S. IMPERIALISM?
WHY DID THE US ANNEX HAWAII?
Entry 2 - Ol Blue - Ch 17, sec 1 & 2
What is PAN-AMERICANISM? Pg 524
WHY DID MANY AMERICANS SUPPORT BUILDING A LARGER NAVY?
WHY DID WAR BREAK OUT BETWEEN THE US AND SPAIN IN 1898?
What led many Americans to support the Cuban rebels? - 528
3/15/2024 - Assignment
Spanish-American War WebQuest
Entry 3 - 3/18/2024 - OL Blue Ch 17 Pg 537
How does Roosevelt become president?
What is the difference between an Imperialist and Anti-imperialist? (Google)
What became America’s primary interest in Asia?
Crash Course. Imperialism video
Entry 4 - 3/19/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 17 Pg 540
What did President Roosevelt believe in with regards to his foreign policy?
How did the US acquire the rights to build the Panama Canal?
What was the Roosevelt Corollary?
Entry 5 - 3/20/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 18, sec 1 546
What is Progressivism?
What were Muckrakers?
What was the book, The Jungle about? Pg 558
3/21/2024 - Assignment
The Jungle Questions
