Objectives:
Explain how cultural and economic factors affected migration patterns over time.
Explain the various responses to immigration in the period over time.
Starter: Cartoon Analysis
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1) What is the point of view of the cartoonist?
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Caption: Looking Backward. They would close to the new-comer the bridge that carried them and their fathers over.
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Recap: Explain the socioeconomic continuities and changes associated with the growth of industrial capitalism from 1865 to 1898.
Review: Whip Around
Practice Questions: p. 336 6-8
Word of the Day
assimilate (definition 2a)
- Define it
- Use it in a sentence
- How would you help an exchange student assimilate into BHS?
- How easily did immigrants assimilate into American life in the late 19th century?
- Should immigrants be expected to assimilate into American culture?
Homework Outline: Ch. 25
Complex Sentences
- “New Immigrants”
- Horatio Alger
- “Social Gospel”
- Realism
- World’s Columbian Exposition
- Briefly explain how political machines provided favors to their supporters in urban areas where corruption was high and access to political power was unequally divided.
- Briefly explain how some segments of society enjoyed lives of extravagant “conspicuous consumption” while others lived in relative poverty.
Lecture: Immigration in the Gilded Age
Greenback Labor Party Platform (1880)
9. All property should bear its just proportion of taxation, and we demand a graduated income tax.
10. We denounce as most dangerous the efforts everywhere manifest to restrict the right of suffrage.
11. We are opposed to an increase of the standing army in time of peace, and the insidious scheme to establish an enormous military power under the guise of militia laws.
13. We demand absolute democratic rules for the Government of Congress, placing all representatives of the people upon an equal footing, and taking away from committees a veto power greater than that of the President.
10. We denounce as most dangerous the efforts everywhere manifest to restrict the right of suffrage.
11. We are opposed to an increase of the standing army in time of peace, and the insidious scheme to establish an enormous military power under the guise of militia laws.
13. We demand absolute democratic rules for the Government of Congress, placing all representatives of the people upon an equal footing, and taking away from committees a veto power greater than that of the President.
1. Identify an event, person, or process that caused the creation of the platform above.
2. Identify a reaction to the platform above.
3. Compare the above document with another document or similar event from the time period.
4. How does this document demonstrate continuity in the U.S.?
5. How does this document demonstrate change in the U.S.?
Closer: Explain the various responses to immigration in the period over time.
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