Today's Agenda

Learning Target:
I can summarize the changes that took place in American cities from 1860-1915, & I can predict the problems that will arise as a result.

Critical Vocabulary:  Jacob A. Riis, How the Other Half Lives, “Muckrakers,” Lincoln Steffens , Ida Tarbell, Eugene V. Debs,  William “Big Bill” Haywood, Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, Industrial Workers of the World, Social Gospel Movement, Robert La Follette, Wisconsin Idea, National Child Labor Committee, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, Florence Kelley, National Consumers League, Muller v. Oregon, National American Woman’s Suffrage Association, Nineteenth Amendment, Plessy v. Ferguson, Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, “Atlanta Compromise,” W.E.B. Du Bois, Niagara Movement


Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: Create Trading Cards for Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and the Wright Brothers.
2. Collaborative Learning:  Urbanization Simulation​
3. Reflection Question: List five problems that cities faced in the era from 1860-1915.

Homework: America Moves to the City

Tentative Test Date: January 26