Bartlett
Chapter 17
Guided Reading
17.1 Technology changes the Nation
Argument: What was the most important technological innovation in the late 1800’s? Why?
Historical Interpretation: How does the rise of the automobile industry illustrate the connection between technological
innovation, industrial growth, and consolidation in the late 1800s and early 1900’s?
17.2 Corporations and Monopolies
Historical Interpretation: What did the Panic of 1873 tell us about the role of speculation in the American economy of the
late 1800s?
Argument (See pg 519 Andrew Carnegie: Wealth 1889: Defend or Refute the following statement: “Andrew Carnegie’s
views on wealth were nothing more than a thinly veiled effort to justify exploitation and social injustice”
17.3 Life of the Middle Class in the Gilded Age
Contextualization: How did architecture and urban design of the late 1800s reflect middle-class values and aspirations?
Synthesis: What connections can you make between the growth of business and changes to American religious life in
the late 1800s?
Create a Timeline: Create a timeline of key events in American Presidential Politics from 1876-1888 (Ruthorford B Hayes
through Grover Cleveland second term)
17.4 Immigration
Cause and Effect: What factors explain the migration of large numbers of Eastern European Jews to the US at the turn of
the 20th century?
Comparison: What did immigrants hope to find in America? How did their expectations compare with reality?
Historical Interpretation: What might explain the formation of ethnic neighborhoods in the late 1800s? What advantages
did such neighborhoods provide to new immigrants?