Classroom Expectations
This magical practice involves putting pen to paper instead of staring blankly into the abyss, giving off the illusion that you are tracking every single word.
What is actually taking notes?
While ruthless railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt was labeled a "robber baron," steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie—who gave away much of his fortune—was considered this type of "nice" businessman.
What is a captain of industry?
Essential to Plains Native American survival for food, clothing, and shelter, this animal saw its population plummet from tens of millions to just 325 by 1884 due to US expansion and hunting.
What is the bison (or American buffalo)?
Four years after achieving statehood in 1876, this Western state recorded a total Chinese immigrant population of 612.
What is Colorado?
The movement of people from the country to the city, which occurred mainly in the northeastern United States as workers sought jobs in factories and mills.
What is urbanization?
Deciding which car you'd like to purchase or which tattoo you plan on getting with your table mates is more important than listening to your teachers or completing your assignment —an inappropriate distraction that has no place during class time.
What is having an off-topic conversation?
Built alongside new transcontinental track lines, these enabled nearly instant communication around the country, replacing long postal journeys.
What are telegraph lines?
Forced agricultural work despite a hunting tradition, the difficulty of maintaining tribal culture in confined areas, and being paired with rival tribes were all major problems caused by this system.
What is the reservation system?
Enacted in 1882, this 10-year ban on Chinese laborers marked the first time a federal law was written to prohibit the entry of a specific ethnic working group.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Driven by prejudice rather than law, this form of division forced African Americans into the worst city neighborhoods, where starting local businesses led to the growth of a Black middle class.
What is de-facto segregation?
This phenomenon occurs when students actually use silent work time for its intended purpose instead sleeping, online window shopping or talking about the latest social media gossip.
What is getting your work done during independent work time?
Facing severe discrimination and earning just $15 a month compared to $50 for white workers, this group of laborers saw up to 1,200 lose their lives while building the Central Pacific Railroad.
Who were the Chinese railroad workers?
Both of these famous Lakota leaders who fought to protect Native lands were killed while in custody of the US Government.
Who are Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull?
At this California immigration station, Chinese immigrants faced intense interrogation, family separation, and detention times that ranged from two weeks up to two years.
What is Angel Island?
To improve efficiency and control quality at all stages, Andrew Carnegie used this strategy to buy companies at every level of the production process.
What is vertical integration?
After putting your cell phone away, you should also remove this item from your ear or head.
What is Airpod, earbuds or headphones.
Boosted by homesteaders and fortune seekers arriving by rail, Denver, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas are examples of major western urban centers that originally grew as these.
What are railway towns?
Passed in 1887 to "civilize" Native Americans by forcing them off reservations and into individual farming and housewifery, the Dawes Act is a primary example of what type of narrative.
What is a dominant narrative (the perspective of the ruling culture imposing its values as progress)
Driven by anti-immigration sentiment and a fear of the "other," this policy or theory favors protecting the interests of native-born citizens over immigrants.
What is Nativism?
This business strategy involves expanding a company by purchasing competing businesses operating in the same industry, a method used by Rockefeller to build standard oil.
What is horizontal integration?
It's the ultimate rookie mistake: going to Mr. LeFevre for a second opinion right after Ms. Kelly gives you an answer you didn't want to hear.
What is "teacher shopping" or trying to play Ms. Kelly and Mr. Lefeve against each other?
These 1862 legislative acts granted over 180 million acres of land to railroad companies, severely disrupting Plain Natives' homelands and the bison population they depended on.
What are the Pacific Railroad Acts?
Operating under the motto "Kill the Indian, Save the Man," these government-run institutions forcibly separated Native children from their families, cut their hair, and forbade their native languages to forcibly assimilate them into white culture.
What are Native American boarding schools?
Due to intense racial hostility in the late 1800s, Chinese immigrants were systematically denied these fundamental rights, along with economic opportunity and social equality.
What are civil rights?
Mark Twain famously coined the term "Gilded Age" to describe a late 19th-century American society that looked glittering on the surface, but was plagued by this underneath.
What is corruption?