Educational Technology @ Hesston: Miss Gaston's HS American History Videos

Miss Gaston's HS American History classes

created videos by being able to demonstrate these themes:

Choices have consequences.
Individuals have rights and responsibilities.
Societies are shaped by beliefs, ideas, & diversity.
Societies experience continuity and change over time.
Relationships between people, place, idea, & environment are dynamic.

With these topics:

Westward Expansion--Railroads, Indian Wars, Custer, Manifest Destiny, Dawes Act and other relations with Indian tribes, Homesteading, etc.

Women's Rights Movement--Temperance movement, Carrie Nation, Suffrage, Seneca Falls Convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, 19th Amendment, etc.

Big Business-Trusts/monopolies, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Bessemer process, Philanthropists, J.P. Morgan, Social Darwinism, effects on economy/public, relationship with government, etc

Politics & Political Corruption--Boss Tweed, Tammany Hall, political machines, weak presidents (Grant-McKinley) spoils system,Populist Party, Panic of 1893, bimetallism, William Jennings Bryan, Progressives, etc.

Immigration-Who came, nativism, numbers, life/problems in the cities, limits, Jacob Riis, Jane Addams, Hull House, etc.

The Rise of Organized Labor--working conditions, labor unions, Great Railroad Strike, Mother Jones, Haymarket Riot, Samuel Gompers, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, Pullman Strike, etc.

Inventions--Electricity & Thomas Edison, Wright Bros & flight, George Washington Carver & ag, Garret Morgan (traffic signal), Alexander Graham Bell & telephone, Model T & Henry Ford, significances these have had throughout history, etc.

American Expansionism--Acquisition of Alaska/Hawaii, Spanish American War, Philippine American War, Mexican-American War, Roosevelt and the Rough Riders, Pancho Villa,

Panama Canal-Who started it? When did the US become involved? Panamanian Revolution, Theodore Roosevelt, William Gorgas, French,yellow fever, etc.