Unit 2 - Industrialism, Urbanization, Immigration, Gilded Age
American History II
Daily Schedule:
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Innovators and New technology
R Complete Reasons for Industrialization
Rise of Big Business
Old and New Immigrants
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Nativism in the turn of the 20th Century
Labor Unrest in the United States
M Union Movement in United States
Organized Labor / Strikes
T Gilded Age Politics
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W Gilded Age Politics
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February
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IN CLASS
Post-test – WEBQUEST – Immigrants, Urbanization
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Rise of the Modern City
Social and Cultural Trends in the late 19th Century
Unit 2 Test
Important terms, people, and ideas: (Remember – this is not a complete list)
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Industrialization
inventions
Edison
Westinghouse
Urbanization
growth horizontal and vertical
development of culture
New Issues in Urban Life
sanitation
fires
natural disasters
Johnstown flood 1889
Galveston hurricane 1900
San Francisco earthquake of 1906
entertainment
phonograph
motion pictures
mass entertainment
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
saloons
vaudeville
spectator and team sports
boxing
professional baseball
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college football and basketball
bicycle races
leisure time
city parks
bicycles
Coney Island
Immigration
reasons for immigration
culture/ethnic groups
Eastern and Southern Europeans
Similarities and differences with Old Immigrants
endurance of passage
entry into USA port
Ellis Island
Angel Island
huddled masses
Lewis Hine
photos from Ellis Island
opportunity and mobility
New York – garment industry
Chicago – meat industry
Cleveland – steel Mills
ethnic neighborhoods
naturalization
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views on American Dream and life in US
Abraham Cahan Yekl: A Tale of the New
York Ghetto
Jacob Riis – How the Other Half Lives
Tenements
Working Conditions within various industries
(garment, meat, steel)
child labor
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
Nativism toward Italians, Roman
Catholics, Chinese
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
Gilded Age
Political Machines
corruption/graft
Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall
James Michael Curley and Boston
Chicago/Cook County
James Pendergast and Kansas City
Ed Crump and Memphis
immigrants for votes
patronage and favoritism
big business
laissez-faire
“robber barons” and “captains of industry”
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Rockefeller
Carnegie
“The Gospel of Wealth”
Morgan
Pullman
Monopolies impact on workers and consumers
Vertical and Horizontal integration
Social Darwinism
“survival of the fittest”
Labor Unrest
Formation of unions
Knights of Labor and Terrence Powderly
AFL and Samuel Gompers
American Railway Union and Eugene Debs
United Mine Workers and
“Mother Jones”
Eugene Debs and Socialist Party of America
Union tactics
Molly Maguires
Railroad Strike 1877
Haymarket Affair
Homestead Strike
Pullman Strike
Collective Bargaining
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Essential Thoughts/Questions
1. How did technological innovations enable urbanization and the horizontal and vertical growth of cities?
2. How did rapid urbanization impact the economic and cultural development of cities in the 19th
Century?
3. How did the process of immigrating to the United States impact immigrants?
4. How did increased immigration impact the economic and cultural development of cities in the late 19th
Century and early 20th Century?
5. How did the desire for power and the resulting political corruption impact government, economics, and
society during the late 19th Century?
6. How did industrial leaders’ desire for power and money impact political, economic and cultural
progress of the United States?
7. How did laborers respond to the tactics of industrialists and working conditions during the late 19th
Century and early 20th Century?