A .How do you see the New South having evolved to its potential (or to less

A .How do you see the New South having evolved to its potential (or to less than its potential) in its heartland, Atlanta/GA?

 

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A .How do you see the New South having evolved to its potential (or to less than its potential) in its heartland, Atlanta/GA?

B .Instructions: Watch the following videos and answer the related questions. (Narrator John Green talks very quickly, so you might want to activate the closed caption option and be ready with the pause button.)

1) “Industrial Economoy” After the Civil War:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6tRp-zRUJs&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s&index=26 www.youtube.com/watch

 
a) What two inventions/technologies established during the Civil War increased “efficiency and productivity”?

b) A third of population boom from 1870 to 1900 was caused by what?

c) The government encouraged industrial growth with tariffs [taxes on foreign imports], land grants to railroads and what?

d) By 1913 the US produced what percentage of the world’s entire industrial output?

e) The railroad industry established the four time zones but how did railroads effect shopping/marketing/consumer business? (Hint: it’s part of the “Sears” story)

f) Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?

g) What was Rockefeller’s industry and how did he create his empire?

h) Consumer prices dropped, which raised standards of living, but now there was more job…what? (starts with s) And what else that hurt the poor most?

i) About how many people died on the job per year on average in this age?

j) What was the first national union?

k) The membership of this union shrank over time because it had become unfortunately associated with what?

l) Who was Samuel L Gompers?

m) Social Darwinism argued the poor should be poor because…why?

n) This was the time when people started to argue that wealth inequality was the opposite of…what?

 

 

2) “Westward Expansion”

 

 

a) Turner argued that the great frontier is responsible for generating American ideals such as individualism, political democracy, and what?

b) Most frontier people did go out as individuals but rather as what?

c) Many states almost went bankrupt financing what?

d) What arose around South Dakota among Native Americans?

e) About when did all Indian wars end Natives defeated?

f) The Dawes Act of 1887 did what?

g) How many acres of land did the Native Americans ultimately lose as a result?

h) What happened to Native children in boarding schools?

i) Why did cowboys drive herds of cattle to specific places like Abiline and Dodge City?

j) Farming families were growing crops like WHAT to compete internationally in markets?

 

 

3) “Growth, Cities, Immigration”:

 

 

a) Why did so many people move to places like Nebraska to farm profitably?

b) By the 1890s what was the second largest city in the US (after New York)?

c) When the Irish immigrated in large masses, immigrants from what other European nation also came in large numbers? (hint, beer)

d) The next wave of immigrants, however, during the turn of the century, came from what parts of Europe?

e) What religions did these new immigrants tend to embrace?

f) In several cases, the Supreme Court had to order San Francisco to do what?

g) How many days did it take to arrive in the US from Europe via new passenger ships?

h) Why did cities like New York pass laws requiring minimum light and ventilation in buildings and neighborhoods?

i) In Gilded Age cities, the rich and poor lived…how? (vis-à-vis each other)

 

 

4) “Gilded Age Politics”:

 

 

a) Mark Twain coined what term/phrase that labeled this era?

b) What was Tammany Hall?

c) How many dollars did Tammany Hall get for every dollar a contractor received?

d) What did Tammany Hall politicians expect in return for helping people?

e) Under Grant, the Credit Mobilier scandal involved what crimes/breaches of ethics?

f) In the West, farmers became politically active over what issue?

g) Why did farmers establish The Grange Movement in the 1870s?

h) All the farming movements eventually merged into what political party?

i) What were THREE things this party wanted? (Hint: among everything on the animated chalk board)

j) So Populist were some western states that they even let who vote??

k) What issue would lead to the demise of this party because of fears of inflation?

l) William Jennings Bryan once gave a famous speech saying the US was “crucified on a cross of…” what?

m) Who gave McKinley an unprecedented amount of money to campaign
C .THE FIRST WORLD WAR (WWI), “THE GREAT WAR”, “THE WAR TO END ALL WAR”

WARFARE REMEMBERED AND IMAGINED–a documentary on WWI as remembered from the air
www.youtube.com/watch

 

You will need to watch at least the first half hour of the full hour documentary to answer the questions. Write at least a page in complete sentences that answers the following questions.

Description of trenches. How long were they? What did they look like? How were they built—inside, outside, pattern?

What kinds of weapons did you notice?

How were small airplanes used in war? What was the danger of flying? How did aerial photography contribute to WWI fighting?

What was No Man’s Land?

The British lose the Battle of the Somme, which lasts months. When it was over, how many casualties were suffered? What massive feature still exists from this battle? How was it created?

You might decide you want to watch more just because it’s interesting! =)
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