Chapter 14-15, The Gilded Age
Monday 4/7/2025 - Gilded Age WebQuest
Entry 1 - 4/9/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 14 Pg 448
Define Economies of Scale
What’s the difference between fixed and operating costs?
What is the Bessemer Process?
Identify the difference between vertical and horizontal integration.
Entry 2 - 4/10/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 15 Pg 465
Why did many Europeans immigrate to the United States?
What is steerage?
What were some reasons why immigrants would be separated from others and maybe denied access into the US?
Friday 4/11/2025 - Assignment
Chapter 14 worksheet to complete in class
Entry 3 - 4/14/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 15 Pg 469
How much did cities like New York and Chicago grow between 1860-1900?
Why did many of the new immigrants remain in the cities?
What were Tenement Housing?
4/15/2025 Vigilante Parade is coming up
101 years after the first parade
Parade Float Topics
15 point assignment today.
Choose a topic and write a 150-word paragraph on that topic and it’s importance to Helena
Entry 4 - 4/16/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 15 Pg 472
How was city life changing with the rapid growth of populations?
Who did the Native-Born citizens blame for these problems?
What was the purpose of the Political machine and party boss?
4/17/2025 - Assignment
Jacob Riis - How The Other Half Lives questions
4/18/2025
Industrialist Questions
Entry 5 - 4/21/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 17 Pg 521
What is Imperialism?
What is a Protectorate?
Why did the US annex Hawaii?
Entry 6 - 4/22/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 17 Pg 524
What were the two goals that James Blaine had for the Pan-Americanism Conference in 1889?
What was the argument that Alfred T Mahan made in his book?
How did Yellow Journalism contribute to America’s involvement in Cuba?
Entry 7 - 4/23/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 17 Pg 530
Who was Emilio Aguinaldo?
Who were the Rough Riders?
Spanish American War WebQuest
Entry 8 - 4/24/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 17 Pg 533
How did the Foraker Act affect Puerto Rico’s status as a territory?
What are the 4 parts to the Platt Amendment?
1920s - 30s
Roaring Twenties - Great Depression
