Quarter 1, Week 10

USII 11-5

Unit IV: The Gilded Age

USII Unit 4 Guide

Quarter 1, Week 9

USII 10-25

This should help!

For ALL groups, the Library of Congress maintains a collection about immigration.

Go to the website. On the left hand side are small thumbnails about certain immigrant groups. Click on those!

Happy Weekend!

Immigration Project

Description is below.

Check out these websites

Suggested websites

Destination America (great starting point for ALL groups. This is an excellent resource to click through for stats, reasons for emigrating, etc)

http://www.pbs.org/destinationamerica/usim_wn.html

http://www.ny.com/articles/chinatown.html

Musuem of Chinese in America http://www.mocanyc.org/

Center for Jewish History http://www.cjh.org/

American Jewish Historical Society http://www.ajhs.org/

Lower East Side Tenement Museum http://www.tenement.org/

Ellis Island http://ellisisland.org

PBS’ The Jewish Americans http://www.pbs.org/jewishamericans/watch/index.html#1

(especially clips from Migration and Assimilation).

The Irish in America http://www.america.gov/st/peopleplace-english/2008/February/20080307131416ebyessedo0.6800043.html

Library of Congress: From Haven to Home http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/haventohome/haven-century.html

Italian Immigration http://www.ailf.org/awards/benefit2004/ahp04essay.asp

Irish American Heritage Museum

http://www.irishamericanheritagemuseum.org/

New York Irish American Heritage Museum

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/legacies/NY/200003396.html

Background info from for most groups:

http://www.tenement.org/encyclopedia/irish.htm

http://www.tenement.org/encyclopedia/Jews.htm

http://www.tenement.org/encyclopedia/italians.htm

Immigration Project

QUIZ: Day 1 of Next Week!

USII Review

Extra Credit Opportunity: Bill Gates and the 'New' Gospel of Wealth

In 2006, Warren Buffett, the American financier famously announced that he would be donating the majority of his lifetime wealth to The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which was founded by the Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates a decade earlier.

The Gates Foundation is arguably one of the worlds most effective philanthropic organizations, donating enormous amounts of capital toward issues in American public education and global public health.

Both Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have been called modern day "captains of industry" and have been compared to industrial predecessors Andrew Carnegie and John Rockefeller.

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY: please read Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" and do some research about Gates and Buffett's motivation toward philanthropy.

Please write a well constructed paragraph that compares Carnegie's beliefs and the modern spin by philanthropists like Bill Gates.

This is due by FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15th.

Weekly Calendar: Quarter1, Week 7

USII 10-12

What does transportation look like around the world in 1900?

For the World's Fair/Columbian Exposition in Chicago at the turn of the century, railroad publicist Joseph Gladding Pangborn organized the World's Transportation Commission to gather information about foreign transportation systems, especially railroads, for the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago. At that time, the Field Columbian Museum had acquired several exhibits from the World's Columbian Exposition, including extensive displays on transportation and the railway.

The U. S. was in the midst of an economic depression when Pangborn's grand tour began. He intended to win friends for American businesses interested in international markets by gathering information about the far away lands and providing information about products available from the States. Besides Pangborn, the Commission included a railroad engineer, a graphic artist, and photographer William Henry Jackson (1842-1943), who had extensive experience photographing for American railroads and geological survey expeditions.

Please check out his photos in the Library of Congress' online gallery. They are organized by country.

Key to transportation above:

1| Saddled camel, William Henry Jackson, [1894].

2| Four turbanned natives pushing Pangborn in hand-car in Bolan Pass, William Henry Jackson, [1895].

3| Jinricksha, William Henry Jackson, [1895].

HW: Guided Reading 15.1

15.1 Guided Reading

Weekly Calendar: Quarter1, Week 6

USII 10-4