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Sept 18th
• Learning Target: I can understand how life was changing in the US• Opener: From the video- explain
2 changes that were needed for the American people.
Learning Target: I can understand how life was changing in the US
Changing World
American Studies
Learning Target: I can understand how life was changing in the US
• Business changed people’s work habits– Farmers to Factories– Factory conditions:• Sweat shops, long hours, low wages, women and child
labor
– Awful conditions created the need for worker’s rights• Women’s rights• Children’s rights
Learning Target: I can understand how life was changing in the US
• Open your books to 71- find these 2 words:– Knights of Labor- define the term– American Federation of Labor- define the term
• Labor unions formed– Improve conditions• Working conditions• Social reforms• “8 rule”
Learning Target: I can understand how life was changing in the US
• Segregation and Social Issues– Turn to page 87- what were the Jim Crow laws?– Plessy v Ferguson– Explain what you think this case was about?
Learning Target: I can understand how life was changing in the US
African American Rights
• After the Civil War, black HEAVILY discriminated– Different responses:• Booker T Washington
– Tolerate discrimination while PROVING themselves equal to white people
– Believed civil rights would come slowly
• W.E.B. Dubois– Believed the blacks should DEMAND civil rights– Believed they should fight everyday for their rights daily
Learning Target: I can understand how life was changing in the US
Closure
• Which individual do you agree with:– WEB Dubois or Booker T Washington and WHY
Learning Target: I can understand how life was changing in the US
