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 * Project Directions **
 * Each group will be assigned 1 of the following 6 topics: Western Settlement, Industrialization, Growth of the Labor Movement, Immigration & Urbanization, Progressive Movement, or Imperialism.
 * The group will research their topics utilizing the sources provided on the Semester 1 Project Resources page found on the left bar under All Pages.
 * Requirements **:
 * 1) (Starting 2012) Read the section in your textbook that pertains to your topic to familiarize yourself with it and the time period involved.
 * 2) Created on wikispaces.com (Click on Projects found on the left side of this page; find your topic/period # link and click it).
 * 3) Identification: Title of your topic & team member names @ top
 * 4) Answer essential questions of your topic (group). Include a relevant picture for each question.
 * 5) Create a timeline c ontaining 6-10 most important events w/ pictures.You will need to click "publish" in order embed the timeline onto your Wikispaces page. Click "embed/share" just below your timeline. Copy the embed code. Go to Wikispaces, in edit mode, place the cursor where you want the timeline to appear, click Widget in the toolbar, click other HTML which appears on the left of the new dialog box, paste the code there, click Save. Then Click Save.
 * 6) Create a merged timeline (no pics) per class. User name: ajomarron email: ajomarron@leyden212.org Password: hushproject Click your class timeline to edit.
 * 7) Complete each journal with a 1 paragraph essay and a relevant picture.
 * 8) Cite your sources @ end of your project.
 * 9) Print out this Google document. Fill it out and hand it in.
 * 10) Peer grading of **ALL** the other pages **(excluding your own)** from your class ( **individual **). **NOTE: YOU SHOULD DO 10 & 11 SIMULTANEOUSLY.**
 * 11) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #008000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Review each page **(excluding your own)** <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> to find Economic, Social, and Political Changes that occurred in the topic <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #008000; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">( ** individual **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #008000; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">).
 * 12) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #008000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Make a connection between your topic/page and 2 other topics/pages. You must make an ** Economic, Political, and Social **connection between your page and to 2 other pages from your class. (**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline;">individual **) This will be done on a Google Form:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grading **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:
 * 1) #s 1-9 will be a group grade. The entire team will receive the same grade unless circumstances dictate otherwise.
 * 2) #s 10, 11, & 12 require **each person** to submit individual work and will be graded accordingly.
 * 3) The Rubrics for both Teacher & Student grading is found on the Semester 1 Project Resources page found on the left side bar under All Pages.

**<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Topics for the project (Each heading is a link to the sources Wiki page, If you need to login, **Username** is Leyden and **Password** is eagle.): ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Settlement of the West** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; display: inline !important; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Essential questions (add a picture to each): ** ** Journals ****<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(add a picture to each): **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What was the effect of Western Expansion on Native Americans?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What was life like for settlers on the Great Plains?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How did cultures clash on the American Frontier?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What political conflicts arose during the settlement of the West?

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a timeline identifying key events that occurred within the scope of your topic. ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **Industrialization**: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Essential questions ****<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(add a picture to each): ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Journals** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(add a picture to each): ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a timeline identifying key events that occurred within the scope of your topic. ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Journals **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(add a picture to each): **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You are a frontier settler. Write a letter to the family members you left behind describing your journey west and how you are living now. Provide some vivid impressions of life on the frontier.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You are working on a reservation as a government agent. You are in charge of passing out supplies to the Indians. Write a letter home justifying what you are doing.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You are an Indian on the reservation. What do you think about life on the reservation? How is life different on the reservation than it was prior to your life on the frontier?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What impact did scientific discoveries and manufacturing processes have on American businesses?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How did large corporations become a powerful force in the American economy?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How did politicians help big business flourish?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How did the major industries (railroads, oil, steel) alter the average American’s way of life?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You are Andrew Carnegie. How do you feel about your growing empire? Explain your views about the way in which the government is working with or against you.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You are a middle class American who is beginning to use new inventions. How are they changing your life?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You are George Pullman, you have recently built Pullman Town. What do you think of Pullman Town? Why did you build it? Why did you create the town and how do you think its working?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Growth of the Labor movement: **  **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Essential questions ****<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(add a picture to each): **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What led to the rise in organized labor in the US?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What were the initial challenges faced by the labor movement?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What gains were made by the labor movement in the US during this period?

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a timeline identifying key events that occurred within the scope of your topic. ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Journals** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(add a picture to each): ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a timeline identifying key events that occurred within the scope of your topic. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You are a recent immigrant working in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Describe your feelings regarding your work experience. You have been approached by a union organizer. How do you feel about that?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You are a member of the Knights of Labor. Write a journal essay the day after the news reported about the Haymarket Square incident? Why are you a member? What are you worried about? How do you feel about the incident?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You live in Company town. Recently there have been a number of your friends who are speaking about striking against the company. You are a new parent, and you are having trouble making ends meet. You are nervous about the strike. Write your feelings.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Immigration and Urbanization **  **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Essential questions ****<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(add a picture to each): **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What was life like for an immigrant in the US at the turn of the century?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">List and describe the social institutions, governmental and otherwise, were set up to assist immigrants in assimilation.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How did urban politics affect immigrant life?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You are a ward boss working for the Tweed ring in New York. What are the problems that you are having in attempting to support the machine?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You are a Senator and the Senate is about to vote on the Chinese Exclusion Act. What are some of the pros and cons in voting for this bill? What are some alternative solutions to this act?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You work at Ellis Island. Every day you see thousands of immigrants entering the country. Explain some of your feelings regarding what you see on a daily basis.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Journals** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(add a picture to each): ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a timeline identifying key events that occurred within the scope of your topic. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Progressive Movement **  **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Essential questions ****<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(add a picture to each): **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What were the goals of the Progressive movement? How were each of these goals met at the state and local governments?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How did the progressive movement increase the power of government and bring about reform?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How did national politicians embrace the Progressive movement and attempt to regulate society at the federal level? How did those changes cause problems in the Republican party?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You are suffragette. What are your feelings toward the men in your life who do not support your cause? How far are you willing to go to gain equality at the ballot box?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You are a muckraker. Recently you visited a meat packing plant in Chicago. Describe some of the working conditions that you see at the plant and your thoughts about it.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You own a bar in Chicago. Write your feelings regarding the new Amendment that has ended alcohol sales and consumption in your state. What do you think of those supporting temperance? How do you plan to deal with this?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Journals** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(add a picture to each): **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imperialism **  **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Essential questions ****<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(add a picture to each): **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why do countries want to acquire an overseas colonial empire?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How did the United States acquired overseas territories in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give reasons as to why the US should intervene in the affairs of another country.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In what ways did Yellow Journalism influence American public opinion?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You are Filipino Freedom fighter. How do you feel about the fact that Spain is no longer controlling your country, but it seems the US does?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You are a worker helping to build the Panama Canal. Give details in which about the work you are doing, the hardships you are facing and why you think the project is worthwhile.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You are an American working for the Dole Pineapple company in Hawaii. What do you think of Queen Liliuokalani? What do you think of life in Hawaii? How would it change, if the US takes contol of the island?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a timeline identifying key events that occurred within the scope of your topic. **