Wolfpack,
I am Mr. Fausey and I will be your DC American History teacher for the 2021/2022 school year. Our topics/units range from Reconstruction to the 2008 election. Also, this course is ran like an actual College Course. There is an exam at the end of the year called the Challenge exam. If you pass that exam then you will receive college credit for history at any Public University/College in Tennessee. Failing the exam will not hurt your overall grade in my class. What does hurt your grade is not taking the Challenge Exam. Four points will be taken off your quarter grades if you do not take the Exam. I can always be reached by email at [email protected] Thanks, Mr. Fausey
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Welcome Back!!! Wolfpack,
I am Mr. Fausey and I will be your DC American History teacher for the 2020/2021 school year. Our Topics will range from Reconstruction all the way to the 2008 Election. Since this course is Dual Credit, that means you have an opportunity of getting college credit if you pass the Challenge Exam. Failing the exam does not hurt your grade in this class. A passing grade on the exam will only help you. Since will are solely virtual this year, there will be new challenges we will face together. I am here to teach but I am also here to help/assist every single one of you on how to navigate Teams our new virtual Learning Platform. We will get through this together, Coach Fausey Bellwork 9/18 Use the questions below to answer the Bellwork •1. What the Setting? •2. Is there an Exaggeration? •3. What is Labeled? •4. What is the Symbolism? Class Notes 9/18 Pullman •George Pullman developed the Luxury Sleeping car (Train Car) •He created a Company Town, where his employee’s could live while they worked at his factory. •Pullman laid off workers and also lowered wages to make up for a reduce in overall company profits •He did not lower rent in the town, and thus, the workers went on strike Class Assignment 9/18 •Get into 4 Groups (no more than 8 in a group)
•Read handout (Ask for a handout/Letter!!!) •Develop Costa’s Questions (Everyone) •2 Level One 2 Level Two Bellwork 9/17 •1. Who were the Knights of Labor? 2. This group wanted to protect its members from what Class Notes 9/17 Going on Strike
•Strike- When employees refuse to work, usually in an attempt to negotiate a change in working conditions •Although Strikes sometimes helped unions fight businesses, they also sometimes damaged the reputation of the unions, some of which came to be seen as violent Anarchist groups •Anarchist- Being opposed to government and/ or law •Socialism- a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. The Homestead Strike •At Andrew Carnegie’s Homestead steel mill, a strike led to a fight that resulted in ten deaths. The state Militia was called in Bellwork 9/16 •1. What is Collective Bargaining? •2. What is the purpose of a Labor Union? Class Notes 9/16 Unions
•Although unions and trade guilds had existed before, they grew in size and scope. •The first national union, the Knights of Labor, was founded in Philadelphia in 1869. Protect its members from employer retaliation •Started as a secret organization •Allowed- Women, African Americans and unskilled laborers •Asians were excluded •In 1886, Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) •A coalition of many smaller unions of skilled workers, which became a much more influential organization •Collective Bargaining- The idea of workers acting together, or collectively- is the essence of a union, as it gives workers the power to convince management to make a compromise Class Assignment 9/16 Inventors HW (Ask for a Handout!!!) Bellwork 9/11 •1. What happen on 9/11? •2. How has 9/11 impacted the nation? Class Notes 9/11 Commercial Farming
•New technologies rapidly transformed and commercialized the agricultural sector in the American South and West. •Agriculture(Farming) in the United States began to shift from subsistence farming (Family Farms) to larger commercial operations(For profit Farming). •Commercialized agriculture transformed the South and West Class Assignment 9/11(Ask for a handout!!!) (Urban Factories) - Write a summary of the handout Bellwork 9/10 Class Notes 9/10
This Picture below shows the two different Railroad companies and where they started and ended up meeting. Central Pacific Railroad- California Union Pacific Railroad- Nebraska Bellwork 9/9 •1. What is vertical Integration? •2. Ford is headquartered in what city? Class Notes (Industrialization) Lightbulb
•1879: •Thomas Edison opened a lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey •Went on to patent more than 1,000 inventions • In 1879 He invented the first electric Lightbulb Typewriter •1867: •The first commercially successful Typewriter was invented by •Christopher Sholes •Carlos Glidden Samuel W. Soule Standard Time •Sir Sandford Fleming was Canada's foremost railway construction engineer, as well as an inventor and scientist. He developed the system of standard time, still in use today •time zones was instituted in the U.S. and Canada by the railroads on November 18, 1883. •Prior to that, time of day was a local matter, and most cities and towns used some form of local solar time Telephone •1876: •Alexander Graham Bell invented the Telephone •He started the Bell Telephone company which launched the telecom industry Bellwork 9/6 •1. Henry Ford is associated with what Industry? •2. Who invented the Telephone? •3. What industry is John D. Rockefeller associated with? Class Notes 9/6 (Industrialization Notes) Automobile/Assembly Line
•Henry Ford devised the Model T Car. Created by his innovative assembly line. •The car was affordable enough for many middle-class Americans to own •The Assembly Line •Everyone on the line does one job over and over •People can produce more in a shorter time period •Those Workers are also paid less because they have fewer skills Oil •Some individual businessmen were so successful that they gained worldwide recognition, like John D. Rockefeller. •Rockefeller founded an oil refinery in 1863, which became the Standard Oil Company of Ohio in 1870 •(Horizontal Integration) a monopoly Steel •Another famous businessman of the time was the Scottish-born steelmaker Andrew Carnegie •Who began his career as a railroad employee and, after making smart investments in steel and iron, founded the Carnegie Steel Company •He controlled every step of the manufacturing process, a tactic known as Vertical Integration Bellwork 9/5 •1. What is a Sooner? •2. What state were the Seminoles from? •3. What was the importance of the Oklahoma in the Western Expansion? Class Notes The Life of Frontier Women
•Women woke up early and milked cows •They also tended to other animals •Women were in charge of all household chores while the men worked. Lasting Effects •Around the time of Westward expansion women didn’t have as many of the rights that they do now. •Women’s role in westward expansion helped show they could do anything that a man could do •They showed that they could hold their own, which ultimately helped women gain rights |
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