US History
Unit 1- Ch 17-18
The Economy and Society in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Day 1 8/26:
Objective: Understand the sources of industrial growth
Activities: Quickwrite, Discussion, Work!
QW: Is the growth of business good for society? Why?
HW: Read p.453-462 answer question
1. What were the sources of industrial growth?
Day 2 8/28:
Objective: Discuss capitalism and its critics
Activities: Pairwork, Discussion, Discuss map on p 460, Work!
QW: Define Bessemer process, Taylorism, assembly line, horizontal and vertical integration, holding
company
HW: Read p. 463-468 answer question
1. How do Social Darwinism and the Gospel of Wealth fit together (do they??)? Do you find the
criticisms of capitalism valid? Why (not)?
Day 3 9/2:
Objective: Understand the difficulties and opportunities open to American workers
Activities: QW, Discussion, Work
QW: 1. Who was Horatio Alger? Was his story valid? Is it valid today? Why?
2. What is a monopoly?
Research Andrew Carnegie DBQ
Finish Research and Questions
Day 4 9/4:
Objective: Evaluate Andrew Carnegie
Discussion
HW: Read p. 468-475 answer questions
1. How were unions a reaction to working conditions?
2. Were strikes legitimate tools of unions/workers?
3. Why were unions ultimately weak?
Day 5 9/8:
Objective: Understand urban growth in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Activities: HW review (pair share), video, quiz, work
Quiz Question: Is the growth of business good for society? Why?
HW: p. 480-483, Answer question
1. What factors combined to attract great numbers of people to American cities? What were the
characteristics of these migrants? How did these migrants change once they were in the United
States? How did they change America, cities or otherwise?
Day 6 9/10:
Objective: Discuss the strains of urban life in America
Activities: Pair-share HW, discussion, work
HW: p. 485-492
1. How did rapid urban growth contribute to government mismanagement, inadequate housing,
and poor health and safety conditions?
Day 7 9/14:
Objective: Discuss the rise of consumer culture, leisure and technology in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries
Activities: QW, Pair-share HW, discussion, work
QW: QW, Discuss HW, Lecture (Triangle Shirt Waist)
QW: What is a political machine and “boss?”
HW: p. 492-501
1. List the technological and consumer changes at the end of the 19th century. How did they
change America?
Day 8 9/16:
Objective: Discuss changes in American culture at the end of the 19th century.
Activities: QW, Lecture (consumerism), video
QW: Was the change to mass culture and consumerism good for Americans?
HW: 501-507
1. How did education change in the US? Was it for the good? Explain.
Day 9 9/18:
Objective: Discuss politics at the end of the 19th century
Activities: Pair-Share HW, video, work
HW: Take home quiz! 5 paragraph essay
Why do many consider the late 19th century and early 20th century the “age of the city?” Was it a
positive time?
Day 10 9/22:
Objective: Review and Quiz
Activities:
Quiz, Grade Quiz
HW: Finish 5paragraph essay