ASSIGNMENT SHEET - AP U.S. HISTORY
ASSIGNMENT SHEET - AP U.S. HISTORY
Unit 6 - GILDED AGE THROUGH POPULISM Chp 23-26
Organizing Principle -
Topics:
Date
12/14-1/17
The Gilded Age fostered the consolidation of business, the beginnings of government
involvement in the economy, and the organization of disadvantaged economic and social
classes.
Grantism, corruption, politics, rise of big business, agrarian reform, labor movement,
Native American, cattle frontier, mining frontier, agricultural frontier, immigration,
urbanization, Social Gospel, Social Darwinism, changing function of government
Class discussion topic
Assignment
12-13
English
30 minute lab time
12-14 Seminar/Split
Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age
Kennedy – 500-527
Q: What gave away that allowed corruption at the federal level?
12–17 Lab research time
12-18 English
12-19 Insdustry Comes of Age
Kennedy 528-556
Q: To what extent did economics contribute to the ethnic clashes of the 1880s-1890s?
Q: Evaluate the term “Robber Baron” as an assessment
12-20 English
Note: Over Christmas break you are responsible for reading Chapters 25 and 26 in Kennedy (557-622),
completely a mandatory take home test, and complete your Native American research project.
12-21 – 1-01 HOLIDAY BREAK – NO SCHOOL!
1-2
America Moves to the City
Kennedy – 557-567
TURN IN INERNET HOLDAY READINGS
New Immigrants, Nativists, Immigration Restrictions
1-3
Readings Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. DuBois
Compare the philosophies of Washington/DuBois in 1900 to Malcom X/Dr. King in 1965
1-4
English – Test
1-7
Major Quiz Chapter 26
Indians, Mining, Cattle, Free Ranges
Kennedy - 590-622
Q: Evaluate the gov’t land give away as a “safety value theory.”
Q: What takes place in the farming Midwest that allows the Populist mov’t to take place?
1-8
English
1-9
New People’s Party, Wm. Jennings Bryan
Kennedy – 590-622
Outside Reading: Lizzie Borden, Litrachoor, Golden Rule Jones, Wizard of Oz Handouts, Frontier
Thesis, Chautauqua Movement
NA RESEARCH PAPER DUE
1-10
MIDTERM TEST chp 1-26
Assignment of the Unit by Unit Review and Decade by Decade Review – Due April 3, 2008
1-11 -1-16 EXAMS and squirrely schedule with activities to be announced in class
1-17
MAKE UP DAY
1-18
WORKDAY – NO SCHOOL!
1-21
HOLIDAY – NO SCHOOL!
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