Unit+4+Industrialization

**Unit 4: Industrialization of the United States (1865-1914) **

In the late 1800s, the country changed drastically. Industry sprang into action and introduced a new level of production after the Civil War. Cities grew in the North, the West was won, and billions were made in profit. At the same time, poor workers struggled, corruption was everywhere, and American Indian tribes were pushed into smaller reservations. The Gilded Age of industry was indeed the best and worst of times for Americans.

TEXTBOOK CHAPTERS:
 * ~ Chapter No. in Book ||~ Chapter Title ||~ Chapter No. in Computer ||
 * = 9 ||= The Triumph of Industry ||= 13 ||
 * = 10 ||= Immigration and Urbanization ||= 14 ||
 * = 11 ||= The South and West Transformed ||= 15 ||
 * = 12 ||= Issues of the Gilded Age ||= 16 ||



MAJOR CONCEPTS: Industrialization, Innovation, Monopoly, Social Darwinism, Labor Unions, Immigration, Urbanization, Nativism, Transcontinental Railroad, Opportunity, Homesteaders, Reservation System, Assimilation, Segregation, Corruption, Gilded Age, Gold Standard, Regulation, Populism
 * Immigrants and poor farmers flocked to Northern cities looking for work in the factories.
 * Big business owners made millions, but squeezed out any fair competition and established monopolies.
 * Workers began to organize into unions to fight for better pay and working conditions.
 * The US army, trained and equipped after the Civil War, turns its forces on American Indian resistance to white settlement.
 * Mining, ranching, farming, and railroads promise big opportunity for settlers who flock West.
 * Segregation and an enormous gap between rich and poor in America continue to plague society.
 * The Populist party fights for reform against big business and corrupt politicians.

Warning: The following information is subject to change, based on instructional needs. Do not copy objectives or complete quickwrites ahead of time.

Unit 4 Day 1 Topics: Industrialization, //laissez-faire//, Mass production, Corporation, Monopoly, Captains of Industry, Robber Barons, Social Darwinism, Interstate Commerce Commission, Sherman Antitrust Act

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Analyze the impact of late nineteenth century industrialization on the U.S.
 * Evaluate the rise of big business in the U.S.
 * Evaluate the rise of government regulation in response to monopolies.

Quickwrite: List some examples of technological innovations of the later 1800s. (See Ch. 9.1)

Homework: Read Ch. 9.3 (Honors: Charts)

Unit 4 Day 2 Topics: Sweatshops, Company towns, Labor unions, Collective bargaining, Strikes

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Assess working conditions of the Gilded Age.
 * Analyze the development of labor unions.
 * Evaluate the successes and failures of the labor movement.

Quickwrite: Summarize the difference between horizontal and vertical integration. (See Ch. 9.2)

Homework: Read Ch. 10.1 (Honors: Charts)

Unit 4 Day 3 Topics: "Old" and "New" Immigrants, Ellis Island, Assimilation, Nativism, Chinese Exclusion Act

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Assess the experiences of immigrants in the late 19th century.
 * Analyze the changes in immigration that occurred during this Industrial Age.
 * Evaluate the role of immigrants in the rise of industry.

Quickwrite: What do you think about the government's reaction to the Pullman Strike in 1894?

Homework: Read Ch. 10.2 & 10.3 (Honors: Charts)

Unit 4 Day 4 Topics: Urbanization, Skylines, Mass transit, Public parks, Tenements, Consumerism, Mass culture, Newspapers, Leisure time

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Assess the rise in urbanization that came with the Industrial Age.
 * Analyze the problems cities faced and the solutions used to meet those challenges.
 * Evaluate the rise of consumerism and mass culture during the Industrial Age.

Quickwrite: Describe one way immigrants assimilated to American culture and one way immigrants changed American culture during the Industrial Age.

Homework: Read Ch. 11.1 & 11.2 (Honors: Charts)

Unit 4 Day 5 Topics: Limits of recovery in the South, Westward Expansion, Sandcreek Massacre, "Indian Wars," Wounded Knee, Assimilation, Dawes Severalty Act

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Analyze reasons for slow economic recovery in the South after the Civil War.
 * Evaluate the impact of settlement in the West on American Indians.
 * Assess the ways American Indians in the West struggled against and adapted to American culture.

Quickwrite: Describe the main idea of the urbanization graph on page 354 in your own words. Be specific.

Homework: Read Ch. 11.3 (Honors: Charts)

Unit 4 Day 6 Topics: Boomtowns, Transcontinental Railroad, Cattle drives, Homestead Act, Oklahoma Land Rush

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Analyze the economic and social factors that changed the West after the Civil War.
 * Evaluate the development of mining, farming and ranching in the West.
 * Assess the impact of the transcontinental railroad on the national economy.

Quickwrite: What did Helen Hunt Jackson's book //A Century of Dishonor// have in common with Harriet Beecher Stowe's //Uncle Tom's Cabin//?

Homework: Read Ch. 12.1 (Honors: Charts)

Unit 4 Day 7 Topics: Jim Crow laws, Poll taxes, Literacy tests, Grandfather clauses, //Plessy v. Ferguson// (1896), Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois, Ida B. Wells, Lynching

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Assess the ways that black rights were limited in the South after Reconstruction.
 * Analyze the differences between //de jure// and //de facto// segregation.
 * Evaluate the work of African American leaders who fought against racial injustice during the Industrial Age.

Quickwrite: Describe the competition between farmers, ranchers, and miners out in the West.

Homework: Read Ch. 12.2 & 12.3 (Honors: Charts)

Unit 4 Day 8 Topics: Gilded Age, Corruption, Thomas Nast, Civil service reform, Gold standard, the Grange, Farmers' Alliances, Populist Party, Free silver, Election of 1896

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Assess the level of government corruption during the Industrial Age and the efforts to reform the problem.
 * Analyze the difficulties of farmers during the Industrial Age and the rise and legacy of the Populist Party.
 * Analyze the impact of the debate over including silver as national currency.

Quickwrite: What impact did the //Plessy v. Ferguson// (1896) decision have on the nation?

Homework: Study for Unit 4 test tomorrow on chapters 9-12.

Unit 4 Test Day Homework: Read Ch. 13.1 & 13.2 (Honors: Charts)

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