Buffalo SOldiers

In class this past week we learned a lot about Buffalo Soldiers and Native Americans because we watched many videos and took specific notes on a class wide google doc about specific topics. We also read document and made questions that we will be seeing on the exam.This gave us key information as a class. Our essential question that we came up with as a class was "Was the discrimination that the Buffalo soldiers and Native Americans faced intentional or did the White settlers and federal government actually believe that what they were doing was just? "  

I believe that the discrimination that the Buffalo soldiers and Native Americans faced was definitely intentional. General Sherman's strategy of war was to remove the Buffalo soldiers. He would do anything to accomplish this. For example he basically destroyed all of their belongings. Native Americans were also forced out of their land and 90% of it went to Americans and the land that the Americans let the Native Americans have was useless. Farming was a big part of the Native Americans lives and the land they were given couldn't be farmed on. Also the government were against the Native Americans because they implemented the Dawes Act which enabled the government to take away Native American land. Native Americans were clearly discriminated against and that was not okay but they couldn't do anything to stop it.


Americans at this time basically bullied the Native Americans and the Buffalo soldiers. They took what they wanted and they gave them back the scraps. They set up the Native Americans to fail. The Native Americans couldn't do anything about it. Native Americans still feel the affects of this today.

Captains of Industry

In class this week we learned about Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller.  We all had a lot of fun creating our own lesson and presenting to our class.  We all gathered up and watched many ABC-CLIO clips as a class then read documents on Rockefeller and Carnegie.  Also we all took notes on one class wide google document and we made a 40 question test which will end up being our final.  I had a lot of fun during this lesson and I felt very independent.  Our essential question as a class is "Were Carnegie and Rockefeller robber barons or captains of industry?" In my opinion they were captains of industry. For example Rockefeller lowered the priced of his Standard Oil Company. This helped the economy tremendously. Also He gave back to society by helping education by giving his money. Carnegie also had a positive impact on the economy. Carnegie is well known for his strong production of steel in the U. S. He also used vertical integration, where raw materials were controlled, transportation was controlled and so was manufacturing and sales. He also built hundreds of libraries. Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller did a lot of things in their lives but overall in my opinion they were captains of industries not robber barons.