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  Clash of Cultures Questioning

Posted by Diana Laufenberg in American History - Laufenberg on
1.  Using the sources contributed to the shared google spreadsheet of primary documents, decide on a question you would like to explore related to Manifest Destiny and the impact on the Native American people as a result.

2.  Scan the list of sources, identify 5 that you would like to analyze as they relate to answering your chosen question.  Choose as least one visual source (map, poster, photograph, cartoon)

3.  Register for an account with thinglink.com and scoop.it.

4.  Using thinglink, analyze one of your visual sources.  Drop tags on the image to analyze the information.  When you are done editing tags, do "View Image"

5.  Log in to your scoop.it account.  Install the bookmarklet for adding links.  When you create your page, title it with the question you are answering.  Then add in your thinglink image and 4 additional primary document sources.  The scoop.it should include writing that analyzes the source.

Goal is for you to utilize a new way of presenting information, that is shared, and interactive - while investigating the clash of cultures that transpired when the colonists and American citizens started pushing West.

Voting rights time line -Cheyenne, Matt F., Matt G., Alan

Posted by Cheyenne Pagan in American History - Laufenberg on

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LINK TO LUCID CHART 


1841 "Less than 50 percent..." primary source
1870 "Slaves are granted..."primary source
1916 "College educated..." primary source 
1916 "Woodrow Wilson..." primary source  
1916 "Woodrow Wilson..." primary source 
1920 " Women are given..." primary source
1924 "Native Americans..."primary source 
1861-1865 "Civil War period..." primary source 
1870 "Slaves are granted..."primary source
1882 "Chinese are denied..." primary source 
1965 "Selma, Alabama..." primary source 
1971 "26th amendment..." primary source
1971 " 26th amendment..." primary source 
1971 "26th amendment..." primary source 

CSheridan;HistoryVotingRights

Posted by Cyndilynn Sheridan in American History - Laufenberg on

SYates.CSheridan.TRosario.MWalls;VotingRightsTimeline on Prezi

Here is an interactive timeline that shows you how different groups of people within the American society received their voting rights periods of time. Hope you enjoy!

Citations:

"U.S. Voting Rights." Info Please. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Oct 2011. <http://www.infoplease.com/timelines/voting.html>.

"Voting Rights Act Timeline ." ACLU. American Civil Liberties Union, 4 March 2005. Web. 23 Oct 2011. <http://www.aclu.org/voting-rights/voting-rights-act-timeline>.

The Evolution of Voting Rights in the United States

Posted by Shamarlon Yates in American History - Laufenberg on

SYates.CSheridan.TRosario.MWalls;VotingRightsTimeline on Prezi

This is an interactive timeline that shows you how different groups of people within the American society received their voting rights periods of time.

Citations:

"U.S. Voting Rights." Info Please. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Oct 2011. <http://www.infoplease.com/timelines/voting.html>.

"Voting Rights Act Timeline ." ACLU. American Civil Liberties Union, 4 March 2005. Web. 23 Oct 2011. <http://www.aclu.org/voting-rights/voting-rights-act-timeline>.

MGinnetti Immigration

Posted by Matthew Ginnetti in American History - Laufenberg on

​http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3822143/Historygraph.pages

  • What surprised you most about this information?  What seemed quite obvious about explaining this data set?
    I am surprised, that during some internal conflict within the united states we still accepted a lot of immigrants, such as during the civil war.  Times such as the great depression seemed quite obvious on why we did not accept immigrants 

  • Looking at the overall trend and incorporating what you know about the US presently, predict and defend the immigration trend for the next two decades.
    I think within the next 2 decades immigration will die down.  The trend seems to be that for a period of time that there is a lot of immigration and then it stops.

  • Describe how you made a decision on how to visually represent the information.
    Our group particularly like the example of the graph with the images on it, so we tried to re-create that example just with our dates and instead f putting pictures on the top we made each bar  a picture.

  • What parts of group work were challenging?
    The hardest part was coming up with a way to visually represent the data, the easy part was getting the a reasons why it happend.

  • What would you do differently if you had this project to do over?
    I would choose to maybe make the graph look a little more presentable and easier to read.

Brownlee. Immigration Reflection

Posted by Yasmeen Brownlee in American History - Laufenberg on

    •    What surprised you most about this information?  What seemed quite obvious about explaining this data set?
What surprised me the most about the information was that there were significant reasons leading to immigration in the US. There were problems going on all over the world leading to immigration. Like world war 2, people trying to get out of their country to find a better life else where. There were always those people who were against others moving into their country and over populating it. There were different ways that people stood up to stop people from taking over there territory.
    •    Looking at the overall trend and incorporating what you know about the US presently, predict and defend the immigration trend for the next two decades.
In the next two decades depending on the "War" in iraq, I predict that there will be many middle eastern immigrants and laws. As well as ways to stereotype
    •    Describe how you made a decision on how to visually represent the information.
We decided on pie charts and bar graphs because the `
    •    What parts of group work were challenging?

    •    What would you do differently if you had this project to do over?

Immigration Visualization Project Reflection

Posted by Manna-Symone Middlebrooks in American History - Laufenberg on

- The immigration trend seemed to reflect the state of the nation at that time. Towards the end of the graph there was a high spike heading into the 2000's. Durring that point in time the U.S was at a pretty good place financially. Considering that one of the lowest points on the graph was durring the Great Depression, I think that our current financial state will slow the inflow of immigrants.
  • Describe how you made a decision on how to visually represent the information.
- Our group was looking to do something set apart from the rest. We first thought of creating an online pop-up book. After some brief confusion surrounding that idea, we decided on creating a Prezi. This visualization would use the letters of the word "Immigration" to illustrated the various points on the immigration graph. The visualization would contain images that were  key events of that time and a demonstration of the population graph to compare to immigration.
  • What parts of group work were challenging?

    - There were a lot of ideas about how the finished product should look. Getting group members to compromise had to be the most difficult challenge. When there are too many leaders in one group it's hard to get things accomplished.
  • What would you do differently if you had this project to do over?
- If I were to do this project differently, i would add a few videos and audio files to mix up the media content.

Immigration Visualization Project Reflection- Marina Pyfrom

Posted by Marina Pyfrom in American History - Laufenberg on

Our Image: 
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2267701/Screen%20Shot%202011-09-22%20at%205.53.43%20PM.png

Beginning this project and looking the data the part that shocked me the most was the actual number of immigrants coming to United States. The numbers were extremely large. The unclear message  I believe was the decreases in certain decades and I wanted the answer as to why the number of immigrants fell. The visual aspect of the project that was assigned really made answer understandable. 

At this present moment United States are dealing with the economic crisis. It is unknown where this dilemma will lead to whether its another depression or a positive turn around. With that being said I think the decade 1990-2000 hit its peak the only next step is to decrease in the following years. 

My partner and I both decided we wanted to make our project visually unique. We both talked about different possible ideas. We went back and forth and together we had chosen the monopoly game board. We were very exciting about our idea and could not wait to see its turn out.

In agreement with my partner the most challenge part was graphing our data in a creative way. We tried to present our data in many different ways but none of them worked out in the way we wanted them to. So with limited time we made a bar graph with monopoly hotel pieces to represent the numbers. 

I would change nothing because we took a chance with this project. We did something never done or seen before.  I love our monopoly board game and proud of its outcome!

Nmanton Immigration visualization

Posted by Anonymous in American History - Laufenberg on

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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2270651/Screen%20Shot%202011-09-20%20at%2011.27.40%20AM.png

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1. The thing that surprised me most about the data, was even though year by year, immigration, jumped and dove, the population of the U.S. kept going up and up at a constant rate. The most obvious thing about the data set, is that during the depression the immigration numbers dropped.


2. During the next two decades I believe the immigration number's will rise. It will rise because all over the world, there are governments falling apart left and right across the middle east. This will cause many people to flee their country and come to the place everyone thinks of as oppurtunity even though there may not be much oppurtunity, and that is the U.S.


3. We decided to make multiple graphs of the U.S. population for the decade with the amount of immigrants that came that year because we wanted to the immigration-U.S. citizen ratio. We figured that a double bar graph would best show the ratio

 

 4. The parts that were challenging was trying to decide which way to represent our data to show the data, because none of them seemed to have everything we wanted in our presentation.



5. If I had the opportunity to do this project again, I would have more types of graphs and pie charts to represent the immigrant-citizen ratio, because it would give multiple perspectives.

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