Gilded Age, Progressivism, and Industrialization
U.S. History—Unit 2
California Content Standards: (11.2) Students analyze the relationship among the rise of industrialization, large-scale ruralto-urban migration, and massive immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.
Know the effects of industrialization on living and working conditions, including the portrayal of working conditions and food
safety in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Describe the changing landscape, including the growth of cities linked by industry and
trade, and the development of cities divided according to race, ethnicity, and class. Trace the effect of the Americanization
movement. Analyze the effect of urban political machines and responses to them by immigrants and middle-class reformers.
Discuss corporate mergers that produced trusts and cartels and the economic and political policies of industrial leaders. Trace the
economic development of the United States and its emergence as a major industrial power, including its gains from trade and the
advantages of its physical geography. Analyze the similarities and differences between the ideologies of Social Darwinism and
Social Gospel (e.g., using biographies of William Graham Sumner, Billy Sunday, Dwight L. Moody). Examine the effect of
political programs and activities of Populists. Understand the effect of political programs and activities of the Progressives (e.g.,
federal regulation of railroad transport, Children's Bureau, the Sixteenth Amendment, Theodore Roosevelt, Hiram Johnson).
Pages: from America’s Journey (Goldfield). Chapter 2-6, The Americans (Danzer, et.al.) chpts. 5-9, and A People and a Nation
(Norton, et.al) chapts. 17-21.
1. See it-Say it. Use pieces of plain white paper and divide each paper into eight squares. Give each square a title & number, use
internet or freehand pictures to define the term and write 2-bullet point summaries.
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lynching
the Grange
Jim Crow Laws
Electric Age
sweat shops
6. suffrage
7. Vertical/horiz.integration
8. Muckracker
9. trusts and cartels
10. tenement life/urbaniz.
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16th amendment
RR regulation
Anti-trust Acts
Chinese Exclusion Act
Omaha Platform
16. Interstate Commerce Act
17. Gospel of Wealth
18. New immigrant (1870-1910)
19. Pendleton Civil Service Act
20. Free silver
2. Snapshot Bios—Key players. Use one piece of white paper and divide it into 6 squares. Give each a short summary
paragraph and use a drawing or internet picture to illustrate the importance of each for the people below. Focus on how these people
affected the era.
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4.
Hiram Johnson
Ida B. Wells
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois/NAACP
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Edison, Rockefeller, Carnegie
W.G. Sumner
Billy Sunday
Dwight Moody
9. William Jennings Bryan
10. Eugene Debs
11. Theodore Roosevelt
12. Woodrow Wilson
3. Era and Events. Divide pieces of white paper into 4 sections.
In each section, include a 50-word paragraph per topic giving key
historical information, include an internet picture or freehand drawing that illustrates the main idea.
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Urban/Industrial South
Southern Populists
Plessy v Ferguson
Gilded Age
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Nativism and Americanization
Child Labor/Children’s Bureau
Social Darwinism
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
9. American Federation of Labor
10. Working Women
11. Progressive Era political parties
12. Social Gospel movement
4. Other. Handouts, class notes, Presidents and characters, current events, quizzes, readings, other materials, etc...
5. The Celebration/Assessment: DBQ on Progressivism. Students will prepare throughout the unit for a
comprehensive DBQ assessment that will be in response to Progressive reforms associated with
industrialization and the changing political climate.