U.S. History – 3/10/10 & 3/11/10
I. Bellwork
A. Primary Source Chapter 15-Section 4
- Questions and Answers 1-3
II. Objective:
- Examine the difficulties faced by workers who attempted to unionized
III. Classwork
A. Discuss 15-2 & 15-3 Quiz on iLearn
B. Video – The Depression: Mean Things Happening
Questions:
1. What forms of farming replaced slavery in the south?
2. What did the Great depression due to the agriculture economy?
3. What did the AA do for cotton farmers?
4. Why was it difficult for sharecropper to form a union?
5. What was the STFU?
6. What often happened to tenant farmers and sharecroppers that unionized?
7. Why didn’t many sharecropper vote?
8. Who did the Wagner Act exclude?
9. What was happening in Arkansas to STFU members and organizers?
10. What happened when the government decided to send payments directly to tenant farmers?
11. What people did the CIO attempt to organize?
12. Why did the CIO have more power than the sharecroppers union?
13. Why did U.S. Steel negotiate and sign a contract with the CIO?
14. Based upon what you witnessed, who was responsible for the Memorial Day Massacre at Republic Steel?
15. What happened after the news film footage of the incident was finally shown?
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