Essential Questions: Why would people take on the challenges of life in the West? How did the United States become an industrialized society the Civil War? Reading and Note Taking Homework: Chapter 2, Lesson 1 & Lesson 2 Due Tuesday September 22 – Chapter 2, Lesson 3 Due Thursday September 24 – Chapter 2 Quiz Friday September 25 – Chapter 3 Lesson 1 & 2 Due Monday, September 28 – Chapter 3 Lesson 3 Due Friday October 2 – Chapter 3 Lesson 4 Due Monday October 5 – Unit 2 Test Wednesday, October 7th – Terms and People: You are expected to be able to identify all of the following terms and people by the end of this unit. Not all of these terms are in bold, so you will need to pay careful attention to the reading and classroom lessons. 2.1 Indian Peace Commission Economies of Scale Boomtown Battle of Little Bighorn Andrew Carnegie Comstock Lode Wounded Knee John D. Rockefeller Vigilance committee Act J.P. Morgan Bust Assimilation Bessemer Process Pike’s Peak Hoax Allotment Vertical Integration Sluice 3.1 Horizontal Integration Hydraulic Mining Gross National Product Monopoly Texas Longhorn Population Growth Trust Open Range Thomas Edison Holding Company Long Alexander Graham Bell Investment Banking Barbed Wire New Inventions Department Stores Haciendas 3.4 Barrios Entrepreneurs Deflation 2.2 3.2 Industrial Unions Challenges on the Plains Transcontinental Railroad Blacklist Homestead / Homestead Central Pacific and Union Strikebreakers Act Pacific Lockouts Dry Farming Impact of the Railroad Karl Marx Sodbusters Time Zones The Railroad Strike Bonanza Land Grants The Knights of Labor 2.3 Credit Mobilier Scandal Arbitration Nomads Cornelius Vanderbilt Haymarket Riot Dakota Sioux Uprising Jay Homestead and Pullman Red Cloud’s War 3.3 Strikes Sand Creek Massacre Corporation Injunction
Essential Questions: Why would people take on the challenges of life in the West? How did the United States become an industrialized society the Civil War? Reading and Note Taking Homework: Chapter 2, Lesson 1 & Lesson 2 – Due Tuesday September 22 Chapter 2, Lesson 3 – Due Thursday September 24 Chapter 2 Quiz – Friday September 25 Chapter 3 Lesson 1 & 2 – Due Monday, September 28 Chapter 3 Lesson 3 – Due Friday October 2 Chapter 3 Lesson 4 – Due Monday October 5 Unit 2 Test – Wednesday, October 7th Terms and People: You are expected to be able to identify all of the following terms and people by the end of this unit. Not all of these terms are in bold, so you will need to pay careful attention to the reading and classroom lessons. 2.1 Boomtown Comstock Lode Vigilance committee Bust Pike’s Peak Hoax Sluice Hydraulic Mining Texas Longhorn Open Range Long Barbed Wire Haciendas Barrios 2.2 Challenges on the Plains Homestead / Homestead Act Dry Farming Sodbusters Bonanza 2.3 Nomads Dakota Sioux Uprising Red Cloud’s War Sand Creek Massacre Indian Peace Commission Battle of Little Bighorn Wounded Knee Act Assimilation Allotment 3.1 Gross National Product Population Growth Thomas Edison Alexander Graham Bell New Inventions Entrepreneurs 3.2 Transcontinental Railroad Central Pacific and Union Pacific Impact of the Railroad Time Zones Land Grants Credit Mobilier Scandal Cornelius Vanderbilt Jay 3.3 Corporation Economies of Scale Andrew Carnegie John D. Rockefeller J.P. Morgan Bessemer Process Vertical Integration Horizontal Integration Monopoly Trust Holding Company Investment Banking Department Stores 3.4 Deflation Industrial Unions Blacklist Strikebreakers Lockouts Karl Marx The Railroad Strike The Knights of Labor Arbitration Haymarket Riot Homestead and Pullman Strikes Injunction
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