Booker T. Washington

http://goo.gl/SWM5a Tuskegee Institute classroom

Essential Questions:

1. What was the name of the school that Booker T. Washington started?

- Tuskegee Institute

2. Whom did Booker T. Washington recruit to head the agriculture department at Tuskegee Institute?

- George Washington Carver

http://goo.gl/kBssU Up From Slavery

3. Booker T. Washington's autobiography is entitled:

- Up from Slavery

4. What president did Booker T. Washington dine with?

- Teddy Roosevelt

5. With whom did Booker T. Washington often come into conflict?

- W.E.B. Du Bois

African-Americans after Reconstruction

How is racism today different than racism practiced immediately after Reconstruction?

- Racism today is more hidden than the racism practiced after the Reconstruction because before, the Southern States had made a broad system of legal policies of racial discrimination that limited the African-Americans' political power. The Southern States required registration and a literacy test to vote which is obviously unfair to the blacks because most of them cant read or write. The African-Americans and the Whites were segregated in public facilities like schools, theaters, restroom, etc.

Mid-Term Exam Reflection

Out of 25 questions on the Mid-Term Exam, I got 24 correct answers. The only question that I missed is number 10 because I did not carefully read the question and all the choices carefully, and because I was too quick to answer the question. As a test taker, I think I always do a good job, though I sometimes miss some questions. Next time, I would take my time and read the questions carefully and bubble in the right answers.

1. Which country's interest did the Open Door Policy in China favor?
- The United States

2. What were the reasons behind the Boxer Rebellion?
- The Chinese Boxers did not like all the foreign troops coming into their country.

3. List three causes of World War I?
- Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism & forming of Alliances.

4. How did the U.S. deal with German U-boats?
- The U.S. ships sail in groups guarded by military vessels.

5. What was the Selective Service Act used for?
- It required men to register with the government to be randomly selected for military services.

6. What new weapons did WWI introduce?
- Some new weapons were the tanks and the airplanes.

7. How did the Espionage and Sedition Act affect Freedom of Speech and Labor Unions?
- It took away the ability of the people to speak out and the Espionage and Sedition Act accused the IWW of sabotaging the war effort

8. Why was there opposition to President Wilson's League of Nations?
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American Imperialism after Spanish-American War

How did the U.S. change Cuba's Constitution?
- The U.S. made Cuba to add the Platt Amendment to their Constitution.

What did the Roosevelt Corollary build on?
- The Roosevelt Corollary was an additional statement from the Monroe Doctrine.

Pancho Villa was pursued by whom?
- Villa was pursued by an army of 15,000 soldiers led by John J. Pershing.

How did the U.S. get the land for the Panama Canal?
- The U.S. got the land by causing a rebellion that declared independence from Colombia. Then the U.S. rented the land from Panama.

What is meant by "speak softly and carry a big stick?
- It means their negotiations are always backed up by the threat of a military force.

Education has Changed. A little or A lot?

Essential Question:
What examples from your years as a student are different from the students from the early 1900's? What's still the same?

Exam Study Guide

1. What mode of transportation did the immigrants used in the 1870s?
- Steamship
2. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory infamous for what?
- Fire that killed 146 women
3. People who break labor strikes by working for less money.
- Scabs
4. The main purpose of Americanization movement was to
- Assimilate immigrants into the dominant "American culture"
5. What law was enacted to decrease Chinese immigration?
- Chinese Exclusion Act
6. Where did the Immigrants moved because it was cheap and has lots of jobs?
- Cities
7. What was the name of the main immigration processing station in san Francisco?
- Angel Island
8. The smaller men in the room in the picture
- the Senate or the United States Senators
9. Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was organized by what type of people?
- Radical Unionists or Socialists
10. What new metal allowed U.S. to make new forms of constructions?
- Steel
11. What technology allowed factories to move away from rivers?
- Electricity
12. What would best reduce monopolies and trusts?
- Competition
13. The Jungle was resposible for what law?
- Meat Inspection Act
14. Settlement houses were made possible by?
- Social Reformers
15. Old appartments occupied by poor people were called?
- Tenements
16. Upton Sinclair wrote his book on what industry?
- Meat Packing, Slaughterhouses
17. The Gentlemen's Agreement did what?
- decreased Japanese Immigration, desegregated SF classrooms
18. Which industry would most benefit by standardized time zones?
- Railroads to help train travelers
19. The #1 strategy that made Andrew Carnegie wealthy was to be cheaper than his competitors, T or F?
- False
20. Who is the industrialist that made vertical and horizontal integration famous?
- Andrew Carnegie
21. The Sherman Antitrust Act was created to do what?
- Outlaw trusts and monopolies that interfered with competition
22. Rich people believed they worked hard, were smarter, and that God selected them is called?
- Social Darwinism
23. Patronage is: a bribe, not doing what you say, putting a friend into a job
- Putting a friend into a job
24. Tammany Hall was a famous: immigration processing station, NYC political machine, Chicago business
- NYC political machine
25. The illegal use of political power for personal gain is: nativism, graft, social darwinism
- Graft

The company Credit Mobilier was famous for what?
- Steal/take money from railroads for shareholders.

Coming to the United States in the 1870s

How much time was the trip from Europe and Asia, and how would you have liked it?
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What are the names of the main immigration processing stations in San Francisco and New York? Describe the immigrant's experience at each.
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How did Denis Kearny try to stop Asian people from entering California in 1882? Why did he do this, and how would you feel if you were Chinese?
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In 1907-08 the Gentlemen's Agreements did two things, what were they?
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Meat Inspection Act

Acrostic Poem

Meat
Exploit
Act
The Jungle

Industries
New
System
Packing
Environment
Clean
Theodore Roosevelt
Inspection
O-
Novel

A-
Chicago
T-

Upton Sinclair's book, "The Jungle" affected the way Americans thought about the ways meat that they eat were produced by exposing how the slaughterhouses and meat packing industries sell dirty meat. The meat were stored in piles in unrefridgerated rooms with rats racing about it. Before Sinclair wrote the book, the people did not know why they get sick, but now they demanded the government to inspect the meat being processed and packed in the slaughterhouses. Roosevelt responded to the people's demand and created the federal meat inspection which was the Meat Inspection Act.