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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Chapters 25, 26, and 27

Document 1: Pamphlet entitled "Scientific Temperance in the First Six School Grades"

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Document 2: An account by Big Eagle of the start of the "Dakota War" in Minnesota in 1862.

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Read more about the Dakota conflict, including first-hand accounts of the trials, executions, and a photo of Lincoln's execution order at this website.







Document 3:  Song "Damn, Damn, Damn the Filipinos"

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(Hint for those who aren't military history buffs or weapons collectors: This is a "Krag")

Monday, March 5, 2012

Chapter 24 - Industry Comes of Age

Document #1:  Organizer Oscar Ameringer describes the effect of the Haymarket bombing on the Knights of Labor

"The bad news from Chicago"

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Document #2: The recollections of a glove worker who went on to help lead a successful strike in a Chicago factory in 1898

"Working her fingers to the bone"

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