Warm Ups and Short Answer Responses

Warm Ups andShort Answer Responses Unit 2B: Westward Expansion

Name:__________________________ Directions:Score each activity below using the “Social Studies Rubric” and the four point scale. Write your score on the line provided. If you do not have an activity for a day you had an excused absence, write the letter “A” on the line provided, otherwise write a “0”. Then add up your scores. Total Points (TP) _____ Actual Total (AT) _____ (20) Notes: • Total Points (TP) is the sum of your warm up scores. To determine your TP, add up the scores for all of your warm ups/written activities. • Actual Total (AT) is the number of warm ups multiplied by four (a perfect score). To determine your AT, count the number of warm ups you were present for and multiply this number by four (the true actual total – perfect attendance). TOTAL SCORE _____/10

Name: Directions:Score each activity below using the “Social Studies Rubric” and the four point scale. Write your score on the line provided. If you do not have an activity for a day you had an excused absence, write the letter “A” on the line provided, otherwise write a “0”. Then add up your scores.

Total Points (TP) Actual Total (AT) . Notes: • Total Points (TP) is the sum of your warm up scores. To determine your TP, add up the scores for all of your warm ups/written activities. • Actual Total (AT) is the number of warm ups multiplied by four (a perfect score). To determine your AT, count the number of warm ups you were present for and multiply this number by four (the true actual total – perfect attendance). TOTAL SCORE _____/10

SA: U.S. Native American Policy After watching the video, A Place at the Table, use your knowledge of U.S. policy towards the Native Americans to respond to the tasks below. • Define “assimilation”. • Describe the purpose of this policy. • Identify the factors that contributed to the U.S. government’s policy of forcibly removing Native Americans from their ancestral lands. • Explain which story from the video, or from Native American history, you found to be the most interesting. • Include historical examples and details to support your response. SCORE_____

SA: The Buffalo Read the passage below. • Describe the result of the process depicted [shown] in this quotation. • Identify other policies that caused changes in the life of the Plains Indians. • Explain how your view of U.S. policy toward Native Americans and/or of Native American stereotypes has changed. • Explain why it is important (or not) to study ALL sides of history in school (i.e., the truth about the Sand Creek massacre and the Panama invasion of 1989). • Be sure to include historical examples and details in your response. SCORE_____

SA: Westward Expansion Look at the graph below. • Identify the ten year period in which the population of the West grew the most, and identify the (approximate) increase in the population during this period. • Explain other reasons for the drastic increase in the population of the West from 1860 to 1900. • Include relevant details and examples from the graph and your knowledge of history. 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 SCORE_____

SA: Populism After its startling success in the late 1880s and early 1890s, the Populist Party quickly faded into oblivion after 1896. • Describe the origins of the Populist Party, and the party’s platform. • Explain the reasons why the Populist Party experienced such broad success during the late 1880s and early 1890s. • Explain the reasons why the Populist Party “faded into oblivion.” • Be sure to include details. SCORE_____

Use your 7-4 notes (and/or Text) to organize your thoughts SA: Populism

SA: Populism After its startling success in the late 1880s and early 1890s, the Populist Party quickly faded into oblivion after 1896. • Describe the origins of the Populist Party, and the party’s platform. • Explain the reasons why the Populist Party experienced such broad success during the late 1880s and early 1890s. • Explain the reasons why the Populist Party “faded into oblivion.” • Be sure to include details. Bonus point!!! Even though the Populist Party may have faded into oblivion after its defeat in the 1896 election, the party’s main ideas continued to live on and still impact us to this day. …

SA: Populism

SA: Populism After its startling success in the late 1880s and early 1890s, the Populist Party quickly faded into oblivion after 1896. • Describe the origins of the Populist Party, and the party’s platform. • Explain the reasons why the Populist Party experienced such broad success during the late 1880s and early 1890s. • Explain the reasons why the Populist Party “faded into oblivion.” • Be sure to include details. Bonus point!!! SCORE_____

Land of Oz (Section B) Wicked Witch of the East (C) Munchkin people (C) Emerald City (D) Wizard of Oz (D) Dorothy (E) Yellow Brick Road (F) Silver Shoes (F) Scarecrow (G) Tin Woodsman (H) Lion (I) The group (J) Witch of the West (K) Flying Monkeys (K) Toto Good Witch of the North Fire Water The Wonderful World of Oz • What does Baum think of the prairie and life on the prairie? (Section A) • What do the following represent? • What is the message of the Wizard of Oz?

The Wonderful World of Oz Stories are sometimes written as allegories – that is to represent real situations in symbolic terms. Gulliver’s Travels is one such allegory. So is The Wonderful World of Oz. It represented the political, economic, and social situation in the 1890’s. This story was written in 1900. Baum had lived in South Dakota for a number of years, lived in Chicago during the Depression of 1893, and supported William Jennings Bryan in the presidential election of 1896. Keep in mind what you have learned about this period in the United States (especially about farmers, the Populist Party, and the election of 1896) from section 3 and 4 of Chapter 7 as you read the summary of the story below. Then answer the questions that follow.

The Wonderful World of Oz • “Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife…. When Dorothy looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side. Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it. Even the grass was not green…. Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint and the rains washed it away, and now the house was as dull and gray as everything else. “When Aunt Em came there to live she was a young, pretty wife. The sun and wind had changed her too. They had taken the sparkle from her eyes and left them a sober gray “Uncle Henry never laughed. He worked hard from morning til night and did not know what joy was. He was gray also, from his long beard to his rough boots, and he looked stern and solemn and rarely spoke. “It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh and saved her from growing as gray as her surroundings. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog.”

SA: Transcontinental Railroad The Transcontinental Railroad was a technological marvel, which revolutionized the nation and enhanced U.S. industry. • Identify THREE positive aspects of the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. • Identify THREE negative aspects of the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. • Assess whether the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad was good, bad, or a mixed blessing. • Be certain to include relevant details and examples in your response.

Land of Oz (Section B) Wicked Witch of the East (C) Munchkin people (C) Emerald City (D) Wizard of Oz (D) Dorothy (E) Yellow Brick Road (F) Silver Shoes (F) Scarecrow (G) Tin Woodsman (H) Lion (I) The group (J) Witch of the West (K) Flying Monkeys (K) Toto Good Witch of the North Fire Water The Wonderful World of Oz • What does Baum think of the prairie and life on the prairie? (Section A) • What do the following represent? • What is the message of the Wizard of Oz?

In/Out Slip Closure • What have you studied from Unit 2 thus far that you feel most confident about? • What do you feel the least confident about, or would like to know more about? • Examples: • Industrialization • Tycoons • Labor Unions and strikes • Westward expansion • Native American policy • Populism

Warm Ups and Short Answer Responses