Visuals
Directions – thoroughly explain the
following pictures:
Big Idea
Industrialization
Vocabulary
Evidence
1. List the cause or effect for the
following:
CAUSE
EFFECT
Need to feed cities
Directions - define the following vocabulary terms in
your own words:
Sherman Anti-Trust
Act
Political Bosses
Homestead Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Dislike of foreigners
Americanization
Dawes Act
Chinese Exclusion Act
Rural
Urban
2. Predict how American history
would be different without:
Homestead Act, Sherman Anti-Trust
Act
Laissez-faire
Philanthropy
Andrew Carnegie
3. Put the following events in
chronological order:
Dawes Act, Homestead Act, Chinese
Exclusion Act, Sherman Anti-Trust
Act
Essential
Questions
Misconceptions
Was the American West completely settled during
Industrialization?
1. What economic, social, and political
changes did urbanization bring to
American cities?
How does the term “gilded” apply to the era of
Industrialization?
2. What were the experiences of
immigrants in the late nineteenth
century?
3. What factors contributed to the
settlement of the Great Plains and Far
West?
4. How did Industrialization bring both
positive and negative changes?
4. Summarize the federal
government’s attitude towards big
business during Industrialization in
EXACTLY one word.
5. Draw a picture of the Dawes Act.