The Roots of a Modern Nation

Humanities for Wisdom

The Roots of a Modern Nation

6/22/2017

We have hopefully answered many of your questions that have come up. Our "school business" at the beginning of class helps. I also hope that you have found topics where you are asking questions and trying to make connections to modern day. We will see the Industrial and legal side of our power of an illusion. Remember these topics on race are for you to think about this and see if we can un-make race with our understanding of history. Keep working and getting enough sleep.

11.2 Students analyze the relationship among the rise of industrialization, large-scale rural-to-urban migration, and massive immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.

Know the effects of industrialization on living and working conditions, including the portrayal of working conditions and food safety in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
Describe the changing landscape, including the growth of cities linked by industry and trade, and the development of cities divided according to race, ethnicity, and class.
Trace the effect of the Americanization movement.
Analyze the effect of urban political machines and responses to them by immigrants and middle-class reformers.
Discuss corporate mergers that produced trusts and cartels and the economic and political policies of industrial leaders.
Trace the economic development of the United States and its emergence as a major industrial power, including its gains from trade and the advantages of its physical geography.
Analyze the similarities and differences between the ideologies of Social Darwinism and Social Gospel (e.g., using biographies of William Graham Sumner, Billy Sunday, Dwight L. Moody).
Examine the effect of political programs and activities of Populists.
Understand the effect of political programs and activities of the Progressives (e.g., federal regulation of railroad transport, Children's Bureau, the Sixteenth Amendment, Theodore Roosevelt, Hiram Johnson).

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Mr.C link

6/24/2016 12:36:34 pm

Today's story
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-12-09/long-anxiety-about-muslims-americans-feared-yellow-peril-chinese-immigration

Richard Gomez

6/24/2016 01:27:00 pm

Homework (6-24) over the weekend:
1) Political Cartoon
2) Check Blog
3) Find a book for book report
4) Read Chapters 8-10 and use the study guides for notes/reference
5) Chapters 8-10 Notes
6) Exit Slips

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Philosophie: Salon Center

Everyone of us is living history. We all have a story to tell and the ancestors that came before us that carved a way for us to become a new member of civilization. We also are learning that we are all related genetically and culturally in the family of humanity. All people’s past becomes part of all of us, and will always be completely intertwined with the entire world community.

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