What was "Urban Culture" like from 1865-1914?

Ch. 21 reading is pages 598-621.


Ch. 21.1
Why did millions of "new immigrants" come to the United States in the late 1800's?


Learn about Ellis Island and conduct passenger searches here. 

Ch. 21.2
What caused vast numbers of people to migrate to cities, and what types of problems had to be dealt with?

Chicago Now

Chicago Then

CNN Student News website

As you know, Current Events will be a part of our social studies time this year.


Please bookmark or refer to the following site often http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/.


The site features a 10 minute daily news program! Why not take ten minutes a day to view the news on-line?


There's plenty of news stories, images, video, maps, and more to keep you informed of world events. Go ahead and impress your parents with what you're learning on your own time!

Industrial Growth 1865-1914

Chapter 20 reading is pages 572-597.

MACHINES!
LARGE-SCALE PRODUCTION!
SMOKESTACK FACTORIES!


In the late 1800's and 1900's, a new 
"economic order" changed the way people worked, ran their businesses, and lived.

COMPUTERS!
INTERNET!
RAPID TRANSFER OF INFORMATION!


Today, another new "economic order" is taking shape. Businesses are reinventing themselves and people are scrambling to adjust.

Here's a link to learn more about the Industrial Revolution. Yes, the link says
"kid info", but it's a good portal to several
sites. 


Learn more by reading and flipping through a photo album. (Select a foreign-born group to see how they settled across the United States.)

Check out an interactive immigration history map. Click on any county in the USA to learn its foreign-born population!

The New West (1865-1914)

What motivated people to move West after the Civil War?


View a slide show of images from the West here. (Scroll to the bottom of the page, but feel free to check out more along the way!)

video

Reconstruction and the Changing South (1863-1896)

After the Civil War

Reconstruction and the Changing South

1863-1896

Big Ideas of this chapter are listed below:

Why were postwar problems more severe in the South than in the North?

How did discrimination continue to exist in the South?

Why can a President be impeached...and what does that mean anyway?

Why was there a new cycle of poverty in the South?

Links to learn more:

Learn more about the assassination of President Lincoln here and also here.

The American Civil War (1861-1865)

Can anyone identify the men standing in the front of each of these two Civil War photographs? See if you can figure it out during our study of the Civil War over the next month or so.

Big Ideas of the Civil War (1861-1865):

What were the strengths/weaknesses of the North and South?

Why did the South win many early battles?

What was the Emancipation Proclamation and its effect on African

Americans?

The Realities of War

Union Victories at Vicksburg and

Gettysburg led to an eventual defeat of

the Confederacy.

Check out the 3 minute video clip here. Listen to the words of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address speech as you view the images.

Discover more about the Civil War through an excellent in depth website, here.

Ch. 16 Slavery Divides the Nation 1820-1861

This week we begin studying the important issues in the years before the American Civil War.

Textbook reading is Ch. 16 Slavery Divides the Nation (1820-1861) spanning pages 458-481! As with every chapter, Ch. 16 will be broken into smaller chunks, or lessons.

Click on the links below to learn more from the excellent resource www.ourdocuments.gov.

Tensions over Slavery

The Missouri Compromise

The Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln

The Divisive Election of 1860

The Compromise of 1850

The Kansas Nebraska Act

The Dred Scott Decision

John Brown: Hero or Villain?

The United States Constitution

Could You Have Passed the 8th Grade in 1895? To test your knowledge, click here and scroll down to the U.S. History portion. Then read and think about the test questions. How many answers do you know?

The year begins with a study of a few of our most important founding documents...

The Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Here's a very informative and useful link about the founding of our nation's government. Click on the National Constitution Center student page here, and begin exploring!

Explore the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights, and other founding documents here.

Welcome!

Week of September 6th, 2010

Welcome to the North Shore Christian School Social Studies Blog!

Trivia Fact: Blog is an abbreviation for "Web Log."

A blog is a great online communication tool for teachers, students, and parents. It will help everyone keep track of what's going on in Social Studies class.

Assignments and links to interesting and useful social studies websites will be posted throughout the year.

We'll be studying national and international current events as well. Click here for a daily look at current events written for students.

Please bookmark this blog site web address on your computer and check it regularly.

If you need to email me about anything school related, use tmcmillan@nschristian.org.

We have a great school year ahead of us!

Mr. McMillan

P.S. Can anyone research and find information about the 16 images you see in the upper right-hand corner of the page?