Chapter 15: Social, political and economic effects of war in the North, South, and West; Reconstruction; Presidential and Radical Reconstruction; Southern state governments: aspirations, achievements, failures; Role of African Americans in politics, education and the economy; Compromise of 1877; Impact of Reconstruction; Compromise of 1877 “carpetbaggers”; Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments Varying Viewpoints article: Radical was Reconstruction?” “How Week 15 December 2-6 Quiz on Chapter 15 Review for Mock Exam Mock Exam Saturday December 7 Week 16 December 9-13 Conquest of the West” “The Go over Mock Exam Chapters 16: Development of the West in the Late Nineteenth Century; Expansion and development of western railroads; Competitors for the West: miners, ranchers, homesteaders, and American Indians; Government policy toward American Indians; Gender, race, and ethnicity in the far West; Turner Thesis Varying Viewpoints article: the West Really “Was ‘Won’?” DBQ on the West and Quiz on Chapter 16 Holiday break: TBD Second Semester: Tentative Schedule Week 17 January 6 -10 Industrial Giant” and Society in the Industrial Age” “An “American Chapters 17- 18: The rise of big business and the role of business in politics, class, and class and the growth of unions, Samuel Gompers; Reformers; government and politics of regulation, laissez-faire economics, the U.S. and world economy; Urban society in the Late Nineteenth Century; Urbanization and the lure of the city; City problems and machine politics; Immigration “New” Varying Viewpoints article: Boon or Blight?”, Makers of America: Irish”, “Industrialization: “The “The Germans”, and Knights of Labor” “The DBQ on business in the late nineteenth century Week 18 January 13-17 and Cultural Trends” “Intellectual Chapter 19 Project: Realism; Changes and advancements in Education and Social Thought
Chapter 15: Social, political and economic effects of war in the North, South, and West; Reconstruction; Presidential and Radical Reconstruction; Southern state governments: aspirations, achievements, failures; Role of African Americans in politics, education and the economy; Compromise of 1877; Impact of Reconstruction; “carpetbaggers”; Compromise of 1877 Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments Varying Viewpoints article: “How Radical was Reconstruction?” Week 15 December 2-6 Quiz on Chapter 15 Review for Mock Exam Mock Exam Saturday December 7 Week 16 December 9-13 “The Conquest of the West” Go over Mock Exam Chapters 16: Development of the West in the Late Nineteenth Century; Expansion and development of western railroads; Competitors for the West: miners, ranchers, homesteaders, and American Indians; Government policy toward American Indians; Gender, race, and ethnicity in the far West; Turner Thesis Varying Viewpoints article: “Was the West Really ‘Won’?” DBQ on the West and Quiz on Chapter 16 Holiday break: TBD Second Semester: Tentative Schedule Week 17 January 6 -10 “An Industrial Giant” and “American Society in the Industrial Age” Chapters 17- 18: The rise of big business and the role of business in politics, class, and class and the growth of unions, Samuel Gompers; Reformers; government and politics of regulation, laissez-faire economics, the U.S. and world economy; Urban society in the Late Nineteenth Century; Urbanization and the lure of the city; City problems and machine politics; “New” Immigration Varying Viewpoints article: “Industrialization: Boon or Blight?”, Makers of America: “The Irish”, “The Germans”, and “The Knights of Labor” DBQ on business in the late nineteenth century Week 18 January 13-17 “Intellectual and Cultural Trends” Chapter 19 Project: Realism; Changes and advancements in Education and Social Thought
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