Today's Agenda

Content Standards: HS.UH.CE.1
Evaluate domestic responses to migration and immigration in the United States from 1877-present.

Learning Target:
I can discuss the issues that dominated American politics at the national and state level during the Gilded Age.

Critical Vocabulary: Andrew Carnegie, Bessemer Process, Vertical Integration, J.P. Morgan, United States Steel Corporation,
John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil Company, Trust, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Herbert Spencer,Social Darwinism, Interstate Commerce Act, Interstate Commerce Commission, Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Wage Slaves, Commonwealth v. Hunt, National Labor Union, Contract Labor Law, Knights of Labor, Terence V. Powderly, Haymarket Square Riot, American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers, Strike Fund, Molly Maguires, Pinkerton Detective Agency, Great Railroad Strike of 1877, Homestead Strike, Henry C. Frick, Pullman Strike, Eugene V. Debs

Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: What new inventions from this time period does Fievel come across as he searches the city?
2. Citizenship Question: Which of the following includes two Cabinet-level positions? 
3. A. Secretary of Education and Secretary of History 
   B. Secretary of Energy and Secretary of Motor Vehicles 
   C. Secretary of Human Affairs and Secretary of the Navy 
   D. Secretary of Homeland Security and Secretary of the Treasury
4. ​​​Guided Instruction: An American Tail
5. Reflection Question: Justify why we would watch the movie An American Tail in class. Give at least two reasons that make a connection between what we learned in class and what you saw in the movie.