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1. How well prepared were you for the exam?
2. About how many hours would you say you
studied?
3. How do you think you did on each part and
overall?
4. What goals do you have for improving your
performance?
5. Now that you have studied US History from
pre-Columbian times to Reconstruction, how
would you define the meaning of freedom? Has it
changed since the definition you wrote at the start
of the course? If so, in what ways?
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Activator, agenda, and objective (10 minutes)
Test review and corrections (30-45 minutes)
Unit 4: Expansionism in America’s Gilded Age
Consequences for Native Americans
Wounded Knee video clip
Reflection
Textbook Theatre for Thursday
Exit ticket and homework
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All of you will…
Reflect on your progress so far and review
material from c. 1400-1877.
Understand what Unit 4 will be about.
Frame questions to study throughout Unit 4.
Tackle AP Topic #15 and Ch.16.
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Each question is marked with a letter and a star
(*). The letter is your answer and the * is the
correct answer.
Go through all the questions and in the space
where it says “Standard/Cluster” write the
unit, time period, or theme the question is
connected to.
For each question you got wrong: In the space
to the right or on a separate sheet, write the
correct answer and a way to remember it.
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Read Foner, pp.585-587.
Based on that introduction make a K-W-L chart
Know
Want to Know
Learned
- This unit will be about
economic growth.
- Labor unions organized
to fight for rights and
traditional freedoms
-Native Americans
continued to be
marginalized and
exploited.
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- Who did not benefit
from the growth of
industry?
- What happened to
Native Americans?
- How did people
organize to fight for their
rights against big
business?
- How do the events of the
period relate to the
present?
[To be completed at the
end of the unit, or as you
go along]…
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AP Topic #15. Industrial America in the Late
Nineteenth Century
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Corporate consolidation of industry
Effects of technological development on the worker
and workplace
Labor and unions
National politics and influence of corporate power
Migration and immigration: the changing face of the
nation
Proponents and opponents of the new order, e.g.,
Social Darwinism and Social Gospel
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1. What was the importance of the railroad to the successful
development of America’s Second Industrial Revolution?
2. Explain what was required for Indians to attain
citizenship and evaluate the advantages and disadvantages
of citizenship to the Indian.
3. Analyze how the shift from an agricultural society to an
urban society changed the American social order?
4. Compare William Sumner’s words in What Social Classes
Owe to Each Other to that of the Federated Trades of the
Pacific Coast’s “rewrite” of the Declaration of Independence.
What two positions are laid out?
5. In what ways did Americans respond to the
overwhelming labor questions that arose after the Great
Railroad Strike of 1877?
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Farming on the middle border
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More land came into cultivation in the 30 years after the
Civil War than in the previous 250 years of American
History.
Farming was difficult and much of the burden fell on
women.
Bonanza farms: John Wesley Powell warned that much of
the region’s arid land required large scale irrigation
projects and cooperative, communal farming.
Small farmers became more connected to national and
international markets.
As crop production increased prices fell and small
farmers suffered
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The future of western farming was pushed
toward giant agricultural enterprises, seen in
CA.
Cowboys became a symbol of a life of freedom
on the open range.
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The incorporation of the West into the national
economy meant doom for the Plains Indians.
As settlers encroached on their land, bloody
conflicts between the army and the Native
Americans began in the 1850s and continued
until 1890s.
The Union army launched a campaign against
the Navajos in the Southwest.
Once numbering 30 million in 1800 the buffalo
were already extinct due to hunting by 1890.
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The Nez Perce were chased over 1,700 miles
before surrendering in 1877.
Chief Joseph spoke of freedom before a
distinguished audience in 1879.
Defending their land, Sioux and Chyenne
warriors attacked General Custer at Little
Bighorn.
These events, however, only delayed the
onward march of white soldiers, settlers, and
prospectors.
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In 1877 Congress eliminated a treaty system
that dated back to the revolutionary era.
Forced assimilation, trying to make Native
Americans “act white” like so-called
“civilized” Europeans.
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The crucial step in attacking “tribalism” came
in 1887 when the Dawes Act was passed.
The policy was a disaster for the Indians.
Many laws only offered citizenship to Native
Americans if they gave up tribal affiliations
and assimilated, but the vast majority did not
want to give up their identity and culture.
Elk v. Wilkins (1884) made it so that the 14th and
15th did not apply to Native Americans.
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Some Native Americans sought solace in the
Ghost Dance, a religious revitalization
campaign reminiscent of the pan-Indian
movements led by earlier prophets like
Tenskwatawa.
On Dec. 29, 1890, soldiers opened fire on ghost
dancers encamped on Wounded Knee Creek in
South Dakota, killing 200 Native Americans,
mostly women and children.
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The Transformation of the West, pp.601-615
Landmarks in Indian Relations, 1876-1890
Event
Date
Battle of Little
Bighorn
1876
Chief Joseph’s trek
toward freedom
1877
Dawes Act
1887
Battle at Wounded
Knee
1890
Outcome
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Write an open response reflection about
westward expansion after the Civil War and
the consequences for Native Americans
Try to incorporate as many specifics as possible
(Dawes Act, Wounded Knee, etc).
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In groups of 5 write a short skit that portrays
the main events and key ideas in the sections
below:
1. The Second Industrial Revolution (pp.590-601)
 3. Politics in the Gilded Age (pp.615-620)
 4. Freedom in the Gilded Age (pp.620-624)
 5. Labor and the Republic (pp.624-631)
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