Unit overview lecture:
Famous ” Shift Happens” presentation on Youtube that goes along with slide 9 in the above Sliderocket presentation.
This short unit on contemporary history looks at how the fall of Communism, the Information Revolution, Globalization and the evolution of War are shaping events today and in the future.
UNIT VOCABULARY – Part I. Information Revolution:
Information Revolution ARPNET Internet World Wide Web DOS Windows Operating System Browser
Hardware Webpage Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Semantic Web Platform App Social Networking Social Media
Social Learning Blog Wiki Podcast P2P Vblog Open Source Mash-Up Dead Tree e-Commerce
Data Mining TIA Virtual Reality Avatar MMORPG Cyberwar/Cyberterrorism Information Operations
Hacking Identity Theft Cybersecurity Firewall Netizen Virtual Nation Telecommuting
Software
In the Great Depression/New Deal unit students have been engaging in economic thinking, answering questions like the one below:
Some recent and past lectures for the Age of Imperialism unit
Yesterday, on Imperialism and the Nation-state:
Part I:
Part II:
On Free Market economies and monopolies:
On the industrial revolution and economics:
First, below are the slides to the introductory lecture on the Age of Imperialism. If you have questions on any slide, leave a comment:
Secondly, Part II. of the Unit Vocabulary:
Captains of Industry/Robber Barons
Cornelius Vanderbilt Andrew Carnegie John D. Rockefeller J.P. Morgan Jay Gould
Muckrakers
Ida Tarbell Upton Sinclair Lincoln Steffens
Political Bosses
William Marcy Tweed George Washington Plunkett Mark Hanna
Concepts, Terms, Organizations:
Equillibrium Price Liquidation Countervailing Power Monopsony Vertical Monopoly
Horizontal Monopoly Pool Cartel Sherman Anti-Trust Act Standard Oil
Craft Union Industrial Union Strike Collective Bargaining Lock-out AFL
CIO Knights of Labor IWW (“Wobblies”) The Molly Maguires Closed Shop
Terms:
Scarcity Price Demand Supply Money Currency Inflation Deflation Depression
Capitalism Free Market Laissez-Faire Social Darwinism Utilitarianism Monopoly
Oligopoly Trust Anti-Trust Invisible Hand Boom-Bust Cycle Sole Proprietorship
Entrepreneur Corporation Stock Shareholder Union Stock Market Capital
Labor Gold Standard Limited Liability
Economists, Philosophers and Scientists:
Adam Smith Thomas Malthus Karl Marx Jeremy Bentham John Stuart Mill
Charles Darwin
The students are starting a new unit -The Age of Imperialism – here are the essential aspects of the new unit:
Time Period: Appoximately 1870 -1917
Themes: America’s shift from an Agriculture to Industrialization
American expansion overseas
International conflict and competition for colonies, markets and naval bases
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