New Oxfam Report About Widening Inequality

Oxfam International, an anti-poverty advocacy international non-governmental agency, release a new report this week about the widening global income gap. 

According to this report, are we living in a new gilded age? What are the similarities between this report and what we've studied thus far about the first "Gilded Age?" What are differences?

Here's the link to a summary of the report and an interview with the president of Oxfam International.

 

Study Guide

I am confident you all will do well for our upcoming exam about Industrialization and Economic Modernization. To aid your study, review the following:

Key Concepts

Major Technological Advancements (at least 2)

John D. Rockefeller

Chinese and Eastern/Southeastern European Immigration

Andrew Carnegie

J.P. Morgan

Railroads

“The Gilded Age” Government Corruption

Social Darwinism

Monopolies and Trusts 

Industrial Economy

Grover Cleveland

U.S. Supreme Court 

Urbanization

Edward Bellamy

Also be sure to review your notes and graphic organizers about the following primary sources:

Andrew Carnegie's Wealth

Mary Elizabeth Lease's Wall Street Owns the Country

Booker T. Washington’s Plight of Black Tenant Farmers

Life of a Sweatshop Girl

John D. Rockefeller’s Defense of Rebates

A Tailor Testifies

Henry George’s Crime of Poverty

Reverend J. L. Moore on the Colored Farmers Alliance

 

Week of January 18th-22nd

Welcome to the final week of the semester!

This week we will conclude the first part of our unit "What Makes America Modern? Industrialization and economic modernization in the United States." This is the schedule for the week:

• Tuesday January 19th: Review day
• Thursday January 21st: Unit exam
• Friday January 22nd: HOTA notebook and all missing assignments due by the end of the day.

Great work everyone! I am confident you will do well for our unit exam if you study the materials we've reviewed in class.

Here are the slides for January 19th:

 

Here are the slides for January 21st: 

Week of January 11th to 15th

This week we will continue to explore industrialization and economic modernization in the United States at the turn of the 20th century. This includes:

• Assessing the social implications of industrialization and economic modernization through analyzing primary sources, and;
• Debating the role and responsibility of those who benefited most from industrialization and economic modernization then and today, and;
• Illustrating Zinn's "Pyramid of Wealth" to reveal the social consequences of industrialization and economic modernization.

 This is also a great time to begin reviewing your notes from the unit in preparation for next week's unit exam. I am confident you all will do well.

Here are the slides for January 12th:

 

Here are the slides for January 14th:

Week of January 4th to 8th (2016!)

Welcome Back! 

I hope each of you enjoyed your break from school, and the snow day!

This week we will continue to explore industrialization and economic modernization in the United States at the turn of the 20th century. This includes:

• Assessing the social implications of industrialization and economic modernization through analyzing primary sources, and;
• Debating the role and responsibility of those who benefited most from industrialization and economic modernization then and today.

Here are the slides for January 6th:




Here are the slides for January 8th:


 

Week of December 7th to 11th

This week we will begin exploring how economic modernization and industrialization transformed the United States. 

We will:

• Simulate the transformation of work and labor through a Paper Airplane Simulation
• Complete class readings: "Free to Think, Talk, Listen, or Sing," and Zinn's A People's History of the United States Chapter 11 "Robber Barons and Rebels" (pages 254-265).
• Defining and assessing key facts and concepts related to economic modernization and industrialization.

Here are the slides from Monday's class:



Here are the slides from Wednesday's class:



On Friday we will finish our key concepts posters and create study guides ahead of the Key Concepts quiz on Monday.

Week of November 30th to December 1st

Welcome to my first week teaching History of the Americas. This week we will...

• Start our new unit: What Makes America Modern?
• Review class expectations and class "do's and don'ts"

 Here are the class slides from class: