Unit 2: Business, Labor & Reform
Part A: Mercantilism to Progressivism
LT1: I can compare the economies of the American colonies
• Charts, maps, and graphs
• Mercantilism worksheet
LT2: I can evaluate, take, and defend positions on the development of
economic policies through the Era of Good Feelings.
• Alexander Hamilton on the National Bank
http://ed.ted.com/on/ENXmOd57#watch
• Revolution and taxation; Hamilton, Jefferson and the new economic policies
http://www.ushistory.org/us/18b.asp and
http://www.ushistory.org/us/18c.asp
LT3: I can describe and evaluate the impacts of the First Industrial
Revolution during the 19th Century.
• Crashcourse #15:The Market Revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNftCCwAol0 (watch outside of class as
an overall review and take quiz the next day)
• Lowell Mill Girls video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YDNfW20zr4
• Inventions and Innovations Affect on American Life (analysis of
pictures/chart)
http://www.thehenryford.org/education/erb/2009NEHMiddleSchoolLessonPl
anBooklet.pdf
LT4: I can compare and contrast the economic differences that
contribute to sectional conflict in Antebellum America.
• Contrast the North and South (reading and chart and map)
• (1) http://www.civilwar.org/education/teachers/lesson-plans/contrasting-thenorth-and-south-lesson/contrasting-the-north-and.html
(2) http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/lec.sect.html
LT5: I can identify and evaluate the economic influences on the
development of the American West.
• Railroads: The Engine to Promote National Unity and Economic Growth
activity https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/development-
west/resources/railroads-%E2%80%9Cengine%E2%80%9D-promotenational-unity-and-economic-gro
LT6: I can identify and evaluate the influences on business and industry
in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
• Men Who Made America segments
Crashcourse #23: The Industrial Economy (watch in class, with questions)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6tRp-zRUJs