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Mrs. King - American History/Government

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Hello, welcome to American History and Government!

Class Projects  
September 10, 2008Online Flash Cards: Government Judicial Branch
September 10, 2008Online Flash Cards: Government: Executive Branch
September 10, 2008Online Flash Cards: Government: Legislative Branch
September 10, 2008Online Flash Cards for Unit 1

Class Notes  
October 13, 2008Unit 2: Industrial Revolution

The Rise Of Industry Unit 2
Capitalism:
Capital:
Corporations:
Labor Unions:
Prejudice:
Segregation:
Growth of Big Business:
American Workers:
Jim Crow Laws:
Patents:
Eugene V. Debs:
Homestead, PA:
Booker T. Washington:
W.E.B. DuBois:

Chapter 5: Titans of Industry
John Davison Rockfeller:
The Oil Rush:
Crude:
Refineries:
Oil Monopoly:
Standard Oil Company:
Monopoly:
Andrew Carnegie:
Bessemer Process:
Molten:
Captains of Industry:
Robber Barons:
Business Giants:

Chapter 6, Edison “Bottles” Light
Thomas Edison:
Young Printer:
Scientific Wizard:
Inventions:
Business Manager:
Entrepreneur:
Incandescent:

Chapter 7, Urban Immigrants
Ellis Island:
Ghetto:
Ten ement:
Shops:
Lower East Side:
Jews:
Italians:
Sweatshops:
Chinese:
Prejudice:
1882 Immigration Law:
Immigrants:

Chapter 8, A Voice for the Workers
Pullman:
Helping the Poor:
Strikebreakers:
Going to Jail:
Socialism:
Capitalism:
Debs:

Chapter 9, Segregation Rides a Railroad
Plessy:

Testing the Law:
13th Amendment:
Civil Rights:
Harlan:
Plessy vs. Ferguson:
Separate but Equal:
14th Amendment:
Albion Tourgee:

Chapter 10 DuBois and Washington
Sharecroppers:
Booker T. Washington:
Tuskegee Institute:
W.E.B. DuBois:
Lynching:
The Souls of Black:

Niagara Movement:
N.A.A.C.P.:
The Crisis:

Masses and The Millions

1) What happened to the union roller employee?
2) What were Pinkertons?
3) What was the purpose of Fricke’s fence around the steel plant?
4) Did anyone get hurt during the shoot out?
5) What does being blacklisted mean?
6) EXTRA CREDIT: What did the little girl name her doll? Who was the doll named after?

Edison-For all Mankind

1) Name 2 of Edison’s inventions
2) What was Edison’s middle name?
3) T or F: Edison invented electricity
4) What’s another name for Edison’s “Talking Machine”
5) Edison invented the kinescope. What did that invention do?
6) What was a “mucker”?
7) What was located in Menlo Park, New Jersey?
8) Finish Mr. Edison’s famous saying that the Librarian quoted: “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% .”
9) What is a filament and why is it so important?
10) Mr. Edison discovered that he needed to try a filament that had a different kind of resistance. Was his new discovery using a filament or high resistance?

Andrew Carnegie: The Gospel Of Wealth

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