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• Turn to page 172 (the timeline)
– 1. Your timeline should go from 1850 at one end to 1920
at the other.
• Label the midpoint 1885
– 2. Plot the following
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1859 Edwin Drake oil well
1865 end of Civil War
1867 Alaska
1870 Bessemer Process Pgh
– 3. Page 103 when done
• “Destiny”
– Jim Brickman
1876 telephone
1879 light bulb
1898 SA War
1903 Wright Bros.
Page 106
• For each word,
answer and explain
why.
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Direction?
Angel?
Left hand?
Transportation?
Page 107
“US ARMY BOMBS HISTORIC
CHURCH: CENTURIES OLD
BUILDING LIES IN RUIN”
“US ARMY DESTROYS ENEMY
MUNITIONS STASH: HURT
GERMANY’S ABILITY TO MAKE
WAR”
If an average American reads the
above newspaper headline, they
are thinking…
If an average American reads the
above newspaper headline, they
are thinking…
Page 110
Page 111
• “shows once more what McKinley is: weak and
catering to the rabble, and besides, a low politician,
who desires to leave a door open to me and to
stand well with the jingoes of his party.”
• Weak and catering to the rabble = doing what
everyone wants him to do
• Door open to me and to stand well with the jingoes
of his party = talking out of both sides of his mouth,
saying he wants peace to Enrique Dupuy de Lome
while talking about war with those who want it.
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EXIT TICKET
Imperialism: expanding borders/influence, natural
resources.
Isolationism: staying out OR avoiding
US & Asia like home & vacation destination, islands
for fuel/rest like rest stops for fuel/rest going back &
forth
War=more papers
Alaska
Manifest Destiny
Yellow Journalism