December 5

802

1)Draw your own political cartoon using a scenario from U.S. imperialism. Use at least 3 SYMBOLS, EXAGGERATE facts, and make sure you have a message.
2)EXPLAIN your cartoon. On the back of the cartoon, explain:
a) Time period and setting of your cartoon
b) What is your message and
c) how your symbols support the message
example:

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, the U.S. entered an era of imperialism. Throughout China, spheres of influences were established and many western nations carved up parts of China for their own commercial gain. This cartoon is drawn from the perspective of a Boxer, a member of a rebel group that protested the presence of foreign nations within China’s borders. The western nations are depicted as annoying chickens that keep pecking at the worms sticking out of the ground. The worms represent the seemingly harmless and victimized citizens of China who will eventually be pulled from their homes and devoured by the hungry western powers. …

831 and 802
Start studying. All homeworks should have been completed in sourcebooks. This will be checked on Fri for 802. LEAVE them on desk by door before you leave for 2nd period.
Topics – Open Door Policy, Imperialism, Spheres of influence, Boxer Rebellion, Big Stick Policy, Panama Canal, Theodore Roosevelt

December 4

HW: Start studying. All homeworks should have been completed in sourcebooks. This will be checked on Fri for 802 and Mon for 831.
Topics – Open Door Policy, Imperialism, Spheres of Influence, Boxer Rebellion, Big Stick Policy, Panama Canal, Theodore Roosevelt

December 2

In your sourcebooks, pretend that you are someone living in any of the nations or places that we have encountered during Imperialism.
How would you feel about the presence of other nations within your borders? Write a poem based on an actual scenario USING words that we have learned so far (Open Door Policy, Spheres of Influence, etc)

Examples that you can use
1) A witness to the Boxer Rebellion (or someone who took part)
2) A citizen living the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine or your impressions of the Spanish American War as a whole
3) The U.S. annexation of Hawaii

Example:
It was June of 1900
These wretched foreigners invade our shores, that they did
Why are they here, you say?
To show us how to do things their way!
Trains, rails, and weapons: they make us buy
Even their religion, their missionaries say if we don’t accept, we will die
From Shanghai to Beijing, their spheres of influences spread and spread
It was too much and before I knew it, anger and hatred filled my head
The Open Door Policy of the United States was all I could bear
It shows another nation stealing our resources, if they dare
I gathered my group of Boxer and we hatched a plan
To rid our mighty homeland of these people from a far off land

QUIZ next Tuesday. Topics to study are imperialism in China, spheres of influence, Open Door Policy, Boxer Rebellion, Big Stick Policy, Theodore Roosevelt, Panama Canal
We will finish going over topics this Thursday. Quiz will have 8 multiple choice questions, 3 identifications, 1 DBQ part.

December 1

831: Bring in reading from yesterday. Make sure you read it at home!

802: Bring in COMPLETED worksheet for tomorrow!!!

November 26 - December 1

For HW, read an article on any MAJOR EVENT OR STORY that happened over the Thanksgiving break. (See below for ideas) Write a one page reaction on what you read. This would include a brief summary, questions that you might have about the article, connections you can make to what you learned in class, and how you feel about the event. Be sure to write down the name of the article and where you got it from (Newsweek, NYTimes.com, etc...) Write your responses in your sourcebook.

example of how to start a reaction:
The article that I read was called "U.N. Reports That Taliban Is Stockpiling Opium" from the nytimes.com website ( http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/world/middleeast/28opium.html?ref=world). Based on Kirk Kraeutler's findings, Afghanistan has produced an incredible amount of poppy which is what the drug opium is made from. The Taliban, an insurgent group which still control parts of that country, are hoarding raw opium in order to finance their military. Many world organizations have been trying to stamp out international drug trade. However, many poor farmers in Afghanistan depend on growing poppy in order to make a living.

I have several questions about this article. Shouldn't the UN be condemning the international growth and trade of opium. In this case, the money used would be given to support the Taliban, a group that the U.S. has been fighting since 2001 along with Al Qaeda. How worried should our nation be? Though largely illegal, the international drug trade has been very profitable for certain nations and groups that take part. How closely should we monitor the Taliban to ensure they will not be using newly purchased weapons against the U.S.? As for the farmers, is there another crop that they can grow? One that will better sustain their families economically? The content of this article makes me wonder a great deal about whether or not there are tough enough regulations on trading illegal drugs.....


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/us/politics/27obama.html?ref=us


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/world/asia/28mumbai.html?hp

TEST ON TUESDAY November 25

See below for review sheet. Also check out this link which gives many sample exams from previous years. MOST of the questions for Tuesday will be from here.....it's just a matter of which ones....

http://www.nysedregents.org/testing/scostei/socstudies8.html

Another link with extremely detailed notes. Scroll down to Unit 8 for info on imperialism and the Progressive Era (Unit 7 has relevant information as well).
http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/USRA_Class_Notes.htm

November 20

831 and 802
Start studying for test on Tuesday. The review sheet is posted below.

Topics to study:
Gilded Age, Progressive Era
John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and other entrepreneurs
Upton Sinclair (“The Jungle”), Ida Tarbell, and other muckrakers,
monopoly, trust, capital, capitalism, competition, infrastructure, Sherman Anti-Trust Act
immigration, tenements
Jacob Riis, unions, strikes

Quiz will have 15 multiple choice questions, 5 identifications, and 1 DBQ part.

Review Questions
1) Gaining almost total control of an industry is called
a) a corporation b) a monopoly c) muckraking d) entrepreneur

2) Which legislation was a response to the public’s growing concern over trusts and monopolies
a) Monopolies Act b) Sherman’s Antitrust Act c) Trust Act d) Trust and Monopolies Act

3) Child-labor laws did not apply to what industry, which employed about 1 million children?
a) textile b) steel c) agriculture d) mining

4) Read the following excerpt and answer the question below
“…The Italian scavenger of our time is fast graduating into exclusive control of the corner fruit stands, while his black-eyed monopolizes the boot blacking industry, in which a few years ago he was an intruder…while the Chinese coolie is in almost exclusive possession of the laundry business. The reason is obvious. The poorest immigrant comes here with the purpose and ambition to better himself, and, given half a chance, might be reasonably expected to make the most of it….”
-Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives

The passage from Riis’ description of ethnic communities in the slums of New York City shows that immigrants ______to ________ their lives.
a) do little, make easier b) work hard, improve c) neglect, examine d) fail, make progress

5) Along with economic troubles, what condition drove people to emigrate?
a) high cost of housing b) weather c) ethnic group persecution d) poor schools

6) Many European immigrants coming to the East Coast entered through
a) Washington, D.C. b) Angel Island c) San Francisco Harbor d) Ellis Island

7) Overcrowding , health dangers, and crime were problems caused by what change in city populations?
a) a rapid decline b) a rapid growth c) a move to the suburbs d) a move to rural towns

8) What period suggested both the extravagant wealth of the late 1800s and the terrible poverty that lay underneath?
a) The Gilded Age b) Age of Prosperity c) Age of Golden Opportunity d) Industrial Age

9) Events in what country triggered the Spanish American War?
a) Puerto Rico
b) Cuba
c) Mexico
d) Panama

10) When powerful nations create large empires by controlling the economy and politics of weaker nations, it is called
a) annexation
b) expansionism
c) isolationism
d) imperialism


IDENTIFICATIONS Identify what each term is and explain its historical significance in the Gilded Age/Progressive Era/Spanish-American War


Jacob Riis

John D. Rockefeller

Tenements

The Jungle

Yellow Journalism



Base your responses to the questions below on the following quote and on your knowledge of social studies.

“We want eight hours (an eight hour workday) and nothing less. We have been accused of being selfish, and it has been said that that we will want more; that last year we got an advance of ten cents and now we want more. We do want more. You will find that a man generally wants more…You ask a workingman who is getting 2 dollars a day, and he will say that he wants ten cents more…while the man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then rsise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.”
-Samuel Gompers, founder of American Federation of Labor (AFL) and prominent American labor union leader

1) Who is Gompers referring to when he mentions “the man who has his millions”?
2) What is the purpose of Gomper’s words? Who might he be saying this to?