Sunday, February 27, 2011

Honors World History II: 28 February 2011

March 1, 1974 - Seven former high-ranking officials of the Nixon White House were indicted for conspiring to obstruct the investigation into the Watergate break-in. Among those indicted; former chief of staff H.R. Haldeman, former top aide John Ehrlichman, and former attorney general John Mitchell.

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Section 4 Nation Building in Latin America

After the Napoleonic Wars, Spanish and Portuguese authority in Latin America became weak. A slave revolt in Hispaniola was the first of many successful bids for independence. Many Europeans favored the restoration of Spanish control, but the American Monroe Doctrine and British naval power discouraged European intervention. Caudillos, or strong leaders backed by military force, took power throughout Latin America. American settlers in the Mexican state of Texas gained independence and, later, American statehood. Great Britain, and later the United States, became the dominant foreign power. In the Spanish-American War, the United States gained control of Cuba and Puerto Rico. American investment and military intervention in Latin America grew. Revolution in Mexico produced a new reformist constitution. However, the new professional sector in Latin American society was generally conservative and allied itself with landholding elites.

Chapter 15 East Asia Under Challenge 1800-1914

China Qing Dynasty Flag 1889



Section 1 The Decline of the Qing Dynasty

Causes of Decline
By the 1800s, the Qing dynasty was in decline. Irrigation systems and canals were poorly maintained, leading to massive flooding of the Huang valley. The population explosion that had begun a century earlier created hardship for China’s peasants. An extravagant imperial court, tax evasion by the rich, and widespread official corruption added to the peasants’ burden. As poverty and misery increased, peasants rebelled. The Taiping Rebellion (ty ping), which lasted from 1850 to 1864, was probably the most devastating peasant revolt in history. The leader, Hong Xiuquan (hong shyoo chwahn), called for an end to the hated Qing dynasty. The Taiping rebels won control of large parts of China and held out for 14 years. However, with the help of loyal regional governors and generals, the government crushed the rebellion.

In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.

Reading Check

Examining

What factors led to the decline of the Qing dynasty?

The Opium War

In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.

Reading Check

Summarizing

What did the British do to adjust their trade imbalance with China?

The Tai Ping Rebellion

The Taiping Rebellion almost toppled the Qing dynasty. It is estimated to have caused the deaths of between 20 million and 30 million Chinese. The Qing government survived, but it had to share power with regional commanders. During the rebellion, Europeans kept up pressure on China, and Russia seized lands in the north.

In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.

Reading Check

Summarizing

What social reforms did the Tai Ping Rebellion demand?

Imperialism in China

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Efforts at Reform

By the mid-1800s, educated Chinese were divided over the need to adopt Western ways. Most saw no reason for new industries because China’s wealth and taxes came from land. Although Chinese merchants were allowed to do business, they were not seen as a source of prosperity.

Scholar-officials also disapproved of the ideas of Western missionaries, whose emphasis on individual choice challenged the Confucian order. They saw Western technology as dangerous, too, because it threatened Confucian ways that had served China successfully for so long.

By the late 1800s, the empress Ci Xi (tsih shih) had gained power. A strong-willed ruler, she surrounded herself with advisors who were deeply committed to Confucian traditions.

In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.

Reading Check

Explaining

What was China's policy of "self-strengthening?"?

In the 1860s, reformers launched the “self-strengthening movement.” They imported Western technology, setting up factories to make modern weapons. They developed shipyards, railroads, mining, and light industry. The Chinese translated Western works on science, government, and the economy. However, the movement made limited progress because the government did not rally behind it.

The Advance of Imperialism

Mounting Pressures

Internal Crisis

In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.

Reading Check

Identifying

What countries claimed Chinese lands between 1880 and 1900?1880 and 1900? Cf. Browse a photo archive of China during the 1890s.

Opening the Door to China

Meanwhile, the Western powers and nearby Japan moved rapidly ahead. Japan began to modernize after 1868. It then joined the Western imperialists in the competition for a global empire.

In 1894, Japanese pressure on China led to the Sino-Japanese War. It ended in disaster for China, with Japan gaining the island of Taiwan.

Carving Spheres of Influence

The crushing defeat revealed China’s weakness. Western powers moved swiftly to carve out spheres of influence along the Chinese coast. The British took the Chang River valley. The French acquired the territory near their colony of Indochina. Germany and Russia gained territory in northern China.

The United States, a longtime trader with the Chinese, did not take part in the carving up of China. It feared that European powers might shut out American merchants. A few years later, in 1899, it called for a policy to keep Chinese trade open to everyone on an equal basis. The imperial powers accepted the idea of an Open Door Policy, as it came to be called. No one, however, consulted the Chinese.

In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.

Reading Check

Analyzing

Why did the United States want an Open Door policy in China?

The Boxer Rebellion

Anti-foreign feeling finally exploded in the Boxer Uprising. In 1899, a group of Chinese had formed a secret society, the Righteous Harmonious Fists. Westerners watching them train in the martial arts dubbed them Boxers. Their goal was to drive out the “foreign devils” who were polluting the land with their un-Chinese ways, strange buildings, machines, and telegraph lines.

In 1900, the Boxers attacked foreigners across China. In response, the Western powers and Japan organized a multinational force. This force crushed the Boxers and rescued foreigners besieged in Beijing. The empress Ci Xi (tsih shih) had at first supported the Boxers but reversed her policy as they retreated.

In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.

Reading Check

Explaining

How did the Boxers get their name?

Section 2 Revolution in China

The Fall of the Qing

The Rise of Sun Yat-sen
Although the Boxer Uprising failed, the flames of Chinese nationalism spread. Reformers wanted to strengthen China’s government. By the early 1900s, they had introduced a constitutional monarchy. Some reformers called for a republic.

A passionate spokesman for a Chinese republic was Sun Yixian (soon yee shyahn), also known as Sun Yat-sen. In the early 1900s, he organized the Revolutionary Alliance to rebuild China on “Three Principles of the People.” The first principle was nationalism, or freeing China from foreign domination. The second was democracy, or representative government. The third was livelihood, or economic security for all Chinese.

The Revolution of 1911

When Ci Xi (tsih shih) died in 1908 and a two-year-old boy inherited the throne, China slipped into chaos.

The Last Emperor - Trailer

In 1911, uprisings in the provinces swiftly spread. Peasants, students, local warlords, and even court politicians helped topple the Qing dynasty.

In December 1911, Sun Yixian (Sun Yat-sen) was named president of the new Chinese republic. The republic faced overwhelming problems and was almost constantly at war with itself or foreign invaders.

In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.

Reading Check

Evaluating

What changes did the Revolution of 1911 actually produce in China?

An Era of Civil War

In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.

Reading Check

Explaining

Why were there rebellions in China after General Yuan Shigai became president?

Chinese Society in Transition

In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.

Reading Check

Evaluating

How did the arrival of Westerners affect China?

China's Changing Culture

In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.

Reading Check

Describing

What effects did Western culture have on China?

Section 3 Rise of Modern Japan

Brady, Mathew
Portrait of Perry (detail)
ca. 1854 Graphic source: Library of Congress
Very common views of Perry were prints and paintings that rendered Perry and his fellow Americans conspicuously hirsute. In several such portraits, we find him paired with Commander Henry A. Adams, his second-in-command.

Adams (left) and Perry

Graphic source: Ryosenji Treasure Museum
Examine samurai objects
Black Ships and Samurai. Comodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
Take a tour of the Japanese city of Edo

Interactive tour of Osaka Castle

Zoom in on a painting of the siege of the castle

Find out more about Hideyoshi.

Timeline of Japanese history
This is the trailer for what is acclaimed as one of the greatest films ever made, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. Warning: Language, do not view if you are offended by a bit more than PG-13 language.



Kurosawa's film was the inspiration for a classic Western: "The Magnificent 7" (1960), 3:10.

Film trailer for this classic Western starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz, Brad Dexter and Eli Wallach.

These scenes from a History Channel documentary provides basic information on Japanese history and culture, particularly the importance of bushido, 7:21.
An End to Isolation

In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.

Reading Check

Identifying

What benefits did the Treaty of Kanagawa grant the United States?

Resistance to the New Order

In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.

Reading Check

Identifying

What events led to the collapse of the shogunate system in Japan?

The Meiji Restoration

Transformation of Japanese Politics

Meiji Economics

Building a Modern Social Structure

Daily Life and Women's Rights

In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.

Reading Check

Explaining

How was Japan's government structured under the Meiji constitution?

Joining the Imperialist Nations

Beginnings of Expansion

War with Russia

U.S. Relations

In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.

Reading Check

Explaining

Why did Japan turn itself into an imperialist power?

Culture in an Era of Transition

In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.

Reading Check

Describing

What effect did Japanese culture have on other nations?

Ch. 14 Resources

Examine samurai objects
Black Ships and Samurai. Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
Take a virtual tour of the Forbidden City.

Fascinating facts about the Forbidden City.

Timeline of China's dynasties.

Timeline of Chinese dynasties.
Interactive time line of 20th century China

Examine samurai objects
Take a tour of the Japanese city of Edo

Interactive tour of Osaka Castle

Zoom in on a painting of the siege of the castle

Find out more about Hideyoshi.

Timeline of Japanese history

Deep Purple video Made in Japan 1972 Rare (part 1), 6:42


The Clash, performing their song, "The Magnificent Seven," live on the Tom Synder Show 1981; this is the first public performance of the song, 5:00.

"The Magnificent Seven" is a song and single by the English punk rock band The Clash. It was the third single from their fourth album Sandinista!. It reached number 34 on the UK singles chart.

The song was inspired by raps by old school hip hop acts from New York City, like the Sugarhill Gang and Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five. Rap was still a new and emerging music genre at the time and the band, especially Mick Jones, was very impressed with it, so much so that Jones took to carrying a boombox around and got the nickname 'Whack Attack'. The song was recorded in April 1980 at Electric Lady Studios in New York City, built around a bass loop played by Norman Watt-Roy of the Blockheads. Joe Strummer wrote the words on the spot, a technique that was also used to create Sandinista!'s other rap track, "Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice)". "The Magnificent Seven" represents the first attempt by a rock band to write and perform original rap music, and one of the earliest examples of hip hop records with political and social content. It is the first major white rap record, predating the recording of Blondie's "Rapture" by six months.

The song is viewed as a critique of excessive consumption which includes a nod to the inexpensive goods produced in Asia.

Thematically, "The Magnificent Seven" is somewhat similar to the punkier "Career Opportunities", in that it takes the drudgery of the working life as its starting point. Unlike "Career Opportunities", however, in stream of consciousness fashion it also deals with consumerism, popular media, historical figures, and addresses these subjects with great exuberance and humor. The first verses of "The Magnificent Seven" follow a nameless worker (narrated in the second person) as he wakes up and goes to work, not for personal advancement but to buy his girlfriend consumer goods:

Working for a rise to better my station / Take my baby to sophistication / She's seen the ads, she thinks it's nice / Better work hard, I seen the price

The nameless worker then goes off for a cheeseburger lunch-break, and the lyrics devolve into a blur of fleeting images from television, movies and advertising:

Italian mobster shoots a lobster / Seafood restaurant gets out of hand / A car in the fridge or a fridge in the car? / Like cowboys do in TV land!

Finally, the song takes historical figures, including Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, Richard Nixon and Socrates, and places them in modern America, before asking sarcastically whether "Plato the Greek" or Rin Tin Tin is more famous to the masses.

An exclaimed "newsflash" near the end of the song, "Vacuum Cleaner Sucks Up Budgie!", was in fact a headline in the News of the World newspaper at the time of the song's mixing in England, according to Joe Strummer.

Gimme Honda, Gimme Sony
So cheap and real phony
Hong Kong dollars and Indian cents
English pounds and Eskimo pence. . . .
Karlo Marx and Friedrich Engels
Came to the checkout at the 7-11
Marx was skint - but he had sense
Engels lent him the necessary pence

What have we got? Yeh-o, magnificence!!

Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi
Went to the park to check on the game
But they was murdered by the other team
Who went on to win 50-nil
You can be true, you can be false
You be given the same reward
Socrates and Milhous Nixon
Both went the same way - through the kitchen
Plato the Greek or Rin Tin Tin
Who's more famous to the billion millions?
News Flash: Vacuum Cleaner Sucks Up Budgie
Lyrics reproduced here for educational purposes only; copyright remains in the hands of the copyright holder.


Test/Quiz Resources

Self-check Quiz on Chapter

Vocabulary eFlashcards

Academic Vocabulary

Combined

Content Vocabulary

People, Places and Events


Rockwell, Somebody's Watching Me, 3:37


David Bowie - China Girl, 4:19


The Chapter 13 Section 1 Quiz is on Friday.

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Monday HW
1. p. 471, #4-6
Tuesday HW
1. p. 478, #5-6, 8
Friday HW
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Honors Business Economics: 28 February 2011

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A recent Economic Report with Greg Gumbel featured a spotlight on Mr. Clean Car Wash. With 15 locations (and counting) in Georgia and Ohio, this concept from the Procter & Gamble family of companies is now franchising across the country. Visit MrCleanCarWash.com/franchising for more information.

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Chapter 8: Employment, Labor, and Wages

Chapter 8 - The American Labor Force

Chapter 8 Video, 2:11

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Section 1: The Labor Movement

A description is given of the growth of the labor movement from its roots in craft unions to industrial unions. Organized labor was generally unpopular until the Great Depression, but labor made great strides during the 1930s and did not lose public favor again until after the end of World War II when the Taft-Hartley Act was passed in 1947. During early development of union, the two types of unions are the craft or trade union and the industrial union, and their actions consisted of striking, picketing, and boycotting. In today’s society, the union arrangements consist of closed shop, union, shop, modified union shop, and agency shop.

The latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals intriguing trends.

In 2010, the BLS said union membership fell by 617,000, to 14.7 million. A decade ago, 16.3 million people were in unions.

Union members now make up 11.9 percent of the workforce. A decade ago, that figure stood at 13.4 percent.

The BLS offers an interesting tidbit about union members.

* The occupations with the highest union membership rate included education, training and library jobs.

Student Web Activity

"Labor Unions and the AFL-CIO"

Introduction
The American Federation of Labor (AFL) began in 1886 as an organization of craft unions. Later, it added several industrial unions. The trade and industrial unions did not always agree over the future of the union movement. Consequently, eight of the AFL industrial unions formed the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) in 1935. In 1955, after almost twenty years of disagreement, the AFL and CIO finally settled most of their differences and joined to form the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). In this activity you will learn more about the AFL-CIO and its role in our modern economy.

Destination Title: AFL-CIO

In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.

Directions
Start at the AFL-CIO home page.

* Click on "About Us" for information about this labor organization
* Browse through the various categories and then answer the following questions.

1. What are the goals described in the AFL-CIO's mission statement?

Cf. http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/thisistheaflcio/mission/

2. What are some of the accomplishments of the AFL-CIO?

In "About Us"

3. Select the "Union facts" link and read through the text on the page. What reasons are given for why people join unions?

The Union Difference

Cf. http://www.aflcio.org/joinaunion/why/uniondifference/index.cfm

Cf. http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/faq/

4. Next, select the link "State and Local Union Movements" from the menu on the left. Select your state from the map. List at least two labor councils active in your state.

Cf. http://pa.aflcio.org/353/

Cf. http://www.sepaalf.org/

Section 1 The Labor Movement

Section Preview

Content Vocabulary

craft union

trade union

industrial union

strike

picket

boycott

lockout

company union

Great Depression

right-to-work law

Right to Work - Real Facts About Right to Work Laws, 4:00

In-class assignment, with a partner, answer the following.

What is a right to work state?
What does it allow?
Does it undermine unions?
Are wages lower in right to work states?
Is there less health care available in those states?
In a strong union state, such as Michigan, do the professors advocate unions?



independent union

closed shop

union shop

modified union shop

agency shop

civilian labor force

Chapter 8, Section 1 - Reading Strategy

In-class assignment: with a partner, fill in the graphic organizer.

Note major events in the history of the U.S. labor movement by completing the time line.


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Issues in the News

Restaurant Fined Over Youth Program

Colonial Times to the 1930s

Early Union Development

Civil War to the 1930s

Types of Unions

Union Activities

Employer Resistance

The Ludlow Massacre

Howard Zinz about Ludlow Massacre, 3:31

In-class assignment: with a partner, answer the following.

What famous rich American family was involved?
What does the communist historian Howard Zinn relate about the massacre?
What had happened to strikers for years?


Attitude of the Courts

Labor Since the 1930s

Labor in the Great Depression

Pro-Union Legislation

Antiunion Backlash

The AFL-CIO

The AFL-CIO and Obama, 1:36

In-class assignment, with a partner, answer the following.

Who does Obama consult with more? The AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka or members of the cabinet?


Independent Unions

Organized Labor Today

Kinds of Union Arrangements

Unionized Workers in the Labor Force

The Global Economy and You - The Union Safety Net Unravels

In-class assignment: with a partner, fill in the graphic organizer.

Chapter 8, Section 1 - Review

Use the graphic organizer to describe the different types of union arrangements.


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Profiles in Economics

Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez: Embrace the Legacy, 5:21

In-class assignment, with a partner, answer the following.

Which famous American politician supported Cesar Chavez?
What was his struggle for?
In what grade did his education end?
What things did he fight for?
Who are the Hollywood figures who supported Chavez?



Section 2: Wages and Labor Disputes

Different occupations and levels of training are rewarded with different wages. Economists divide labor into four non-competing labor grades based on a worker's education, training, and skills. These categories include unskilled labor, semiskilled labor, skilled labor, and professional labor. In addition, there are many negotiation methods: collective bargaining, mediation, arbitration, fact-finding, injunction, and seizure. Finally, the president may intervene in a labor-management dispute.

Figure 8.5 Market Theory of Wage Determination, p. 209

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Chapter 8, Section 2 - Reading Strategy

In-class assignment: with a partner, fill in the graphic organizer.
Complete the graphic organizer that describes the different ways labor disputes are resolved.


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Chapter 8, Section 2 - Review

In-class assignment: with a partner, fill in the graphic organizer.

Describe the four approaches to wage determination.


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Section 3: Employment Trends and Issues

There are several trends and issues in today's economy. The first is the continuing decline of union membership and influence since the end of World War II. The second is the income gap between men and women, and policies such as set-aside contracts, which are designed to remedy it. The last is the issue of the minimum wage, which is measured in current dollars, inflation-adjusted dollars, and as a percent of the average manufacturing wage.



Chapter 8, Section 3 - Reading Strategy

In-class assignment: with a partner, fill in the graphic organizer.

Explain why women face an income gap.



Cf. http://glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/socialstudies/igo_08/epp/ch_08/EPP_ch08_sec3_1.pdf

Chapter 8, Section 3 - Review

In-class assignment: with a partner, fill in the graphic organizer.

List three ways firms renegotiate union contracts.


Cf. http://glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/socialstudies/igo_08/epp/ch_08/EPP_ch08_sec3_2.pdf

Chapter 8 Crossword Puzzle

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Vocabulary Flashcard

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Self-check Quiz

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References

Ch. 6 Prep

Chapter 6: Prices and Decision Making
Multiple Choice Quiz

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ePuzzle Concentration

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Academic, Glossary, People/Places/Events

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Chapter 7 Resources

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Preview

Unit 3: Economic Institutions and Issues

Chapters 8-11

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Deadline for Action: Labor Unions & Corporate Influence on the U.S. Congress (1/3) (1946), 10:08



John Llewellyn Lewis (1880--1969) was the autocratic president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) from 1920 to 1960, and the driving force behind the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Using UMW organizers the new CIO established the United Steel Workers of America (USWA) and organized millions of other industrial workers in the 1930s. A powerful speaker and strategist, Lewis did not hesitate to shut down coal production—the nation's main energy and heating source—to achieve his goals.

Lewis threw his support behind Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) at the outset of the New Deal. After the passage of the Wagner Act in 1935, Lewis traded on the tremendous appeal that Roosevelt had with workers in those days, sending organizers into the coal fields to tell workers that "The President wants you to join the Union." His UMW was one of FDR's main financial supporters in 1936, contributing over $500,000.

Lewis expanded his base by organizing the so-called "captive mines," those held by the steel producers such as U.S. Steel. That required in turn organizing the steel industry, which had defeated union organizing drives in 1892 and 1919 and which had resisted all organizing efforts since then fiercely. The task of organizing steelworkers, on the other hand, put Lewis at odds with the AFL, which looked down on both industrial workers and the industrial unions that represented all workers in a particular industry, rather than just those in a particular skilled trade or craft.

Lewis was the first president of the Committee of Industrial Organizations. Lewis, in fact, was the CIO: his UMWA provided the great bulk of the financial resources that the CIO poured into organizing drives by the United Automobile Workers (UAW), the USWA, the Textile Workers Union and other newly formed or struggling unions. Lewis hired back many of the people he had exiled from the UMWA in the 1920s to lead the CIO and placed his protégé Philip Murray at the head of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. Lewis played the leading role in the negotiations that led to the successful conclusion of the Flint sit-down strike conducted by the UAW in 1936-1937 and in the Chrysler sit-down strike that followed.

The CIO's actual membership (as opposed to publicity figures) was 2,850,000 for February 1942. This included 537,000 members of the UAW, just under 500,000 Steel Workers, almost 300,000 members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, about 180,000 Electrical Workers, and about 100,000 Rubber Workers. The CIO also included 550,000 members of the United Mine Workers, which did not formally withdraw from the CIO until later in the year. The remaining membership of 700,000 was scattered among thirty-odd smaller unions. (Galenson, p. 585)

The war mobilization dramatically expanded union membership, from 8.7 million in 1940 to over 14.3 million in 1945, about 36% of the work force. For the first time large numbers of women factory workers were enrolled. Both the AFL and CIO supported Roosevelt in 1940 and 1944, with 75% or more of their votes, millions of dollars, and tens of thousands of precinct workers. However, Lewis opposed Roosevelt on foreign policy grounds in 1940. He took the Mine Workers out of the CIO and rejoined the AFL. All labor unions strongly supported the war effort after June 1941 (when Germany invaded the Soviet Union). Left-wing activists crushed wildcat strikes. Nonetheless, Lewis realized that he had enormous leverage. In 1943, the middle of the war, when the rest of labor was observing a policy against strikes, Lewis led the miners out on a twelve-day strike for higher wages; the depth of public dismay—even hatred—of Lewis was palpable. In November 1943 the Fortune poll asked, "Are there any prominent individuals in this country who you feel might be harmful to the future of the country unless they are curbed?" 36% spontaneously named Lewis. (Next came 3% who named Roosevelt.) As a result the Conservative coalition in Congress was able to pass anti-union legislation, leading to the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.

American Free Enterprise System: Your Town - A Story of America (1940), 10:57



Santana - Oye Como Va - Tanglewood - 1970/08/18, 4:38



Carlos Santana - guitar, vocals
Gregg Rolie - keyboards, piano, lead vocals
Neal Schon - guitar
David Brown - bass
Michael Shrieve - drums
Jose Chepito Areas - percussion, conga, timbales
Mike Carabello - percussion, conga, vocals
Thomas Coke Escovedo - percussion

The original Santana line-up and at this concert is the same one that plays on the first two albums ("Santana" and "Abraxas").

Woody Guthrie Ludlow Massacre, 3:31


Ch. 6 Sec. 1 Quiz Monday

Ch. 6 Sec. 2 Quiz Tuesday

Ch. 6 Sec. 3 Quiz Friday

8 March, Ch. 6 Test

Email (or hand in hard copy) to gmsmith@shanahan.org.

Monday HW
1. p. 205, #5-8
Tuesday HW
2. p. 213, #4-7
Friday HW
1. p. 221, #5

Honors World History II: HW for Week of 28 February 2011

Monday HW
1. p. 471, #4-6
Tuesday HW
1. p. 478, #5-6, 8
Friday HW
1. p. 486, #9

Honors Business Economics: HW for the Week of 28 February 2011

Monday HW
1. p. 205,  #5-8
Tuesday HW
2. p. 213, #4-7
Friday HW
1. p. 221, #5