February 10, 2009 Someone once said that Black History Month is a bad idea. He said that African American history should be taught all year round. Other people I know say Black History Month forces us to pay some attention. Others ask what about Italian American history month. What do you think?

Black History Month Project Due Monday the 16 th Your choice of a 2 page paper or a poster If you want I will assign you a topic Worth 2 quiz grades Will be displayed in the classroom and in the hall

Project

Due Monday the 16 th

Your choice of a 2 page paper or a poster

If you want I will assign you a topic

Worth 2 quiz grades

Will be displayed in the classroom and in the hall

Homework Would you want to join a Union? Do you think Unions are a good idea? 1 paragraph minimum.

Would you want to join a Union? Do you think Unions are a good idea? 1 paragraph minimum.

Black History Month Idea of Carter G. Woodson Started as Negro History Week in 1926 Woodson chose February because it is the birth month of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

Idea of Carter G. Woodson

Started as Negro History Week in 1926

Woodson chose February because it is the birth month of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

Suffrage It means the right to vote Remember not everyone had the right to vote Women were usually the last to get the right to vote Usually suffrage was extended out of fear of a revolution

It means the right to vote

Remember not everyone had the right to vote

Women were usually the last to get the right to vote

Usually suffrage was extended out of fear of a revolution

Adam Snith Wrote the book The Wealth of Nations It is still read today Help make economics a science Argued that the best thing a government could do about the economy was nothing

Wrote the book The Wealth of Nations

It is still read today

Help make economics a science

Argued that the best thing a government could do about the economy was nothing

Socialism State or collective ownership of the means of production Supposed to grant equal opportunity for all Most of the revolutionaries of the 1800s were socialist to some degree

State or collective ownership of the means of production

Supposed to grant equal opportunity for all

Most of the revolutionaries of the 1800s were socialist to some degree

Karl Marx German Wrote the Communist Manifesto Political thinker “ Workers of the world Unite!” Believed people were more loyal to their class than their country

German

Wrote the Communist Manifesto

Political thinker

“ Workers of the world Unite!”

Believed people were more loyal to their class than their country

Utopianism The idea that there could be a perfect society Often these societies were religious Utopia is impossible as it would mean a society that cannot ever change Many groups tried anyway

The idea that there could be a perfect society

Often these societies were religious

Utopia is impossible as it would mean a society that cannot ever change

Many groups tried anyway

Classwork Main Idea A, B, p. 735, Main Idea C p. 736, Skillbuilder p. 737

Main Idea A, B, p. 735, Main Idea C p. 736, Skillbuilder p. 737