Industrialization, Immigration and Urbanization
These are the standards for this particular unit. You should now be able to do these things.
11.2 Students analyze the relationship among the rise of industrialization, large-scale
rural-to-urban migration, and massive immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Trace the effect of the Americanization movement.
4. Analyze the effect of urban political machines and responses to them by immigrants and middleclass reformers.
5. Discuss corporate mergers that produced trusts and cartels and the economic and political policies of
industrial leaders.
6. 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.
7. Analyze the similarities and differences between the ideologies of Social Darwinism and Social
Gospel.
Define the following terms on a separate sheet of paper:
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Entrepreneur
Tenement
Laissez-faire
Steerage
Graft
nativism
Gilded age
Anarchists
Melting Pot
political machines
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monopoly
Socialism
Spoils System
corporation
Laissez-fair capitalism
Ellis Island
settlement houses
Angel Island
Americanization
Social Darwinism
21. Inventions of the
Industrial Revolution
22. Homestead Act
23. Carnegie and Social
Darwinism
24. Transcontintinental
railroad
25. Robber Barons
26. Lowell Mills
Answer the following on a separate sheet of paper:
1. Why did children work in factories?
2. How did the concentration of wealth change with the industrial revolution?
3. What effect did the railroad have on America- economic, social, geographic?
4. Describe housing for immigrants in the cities.
5. What was the Americanization Movement?
6. How did immigration patterns change between 1860 and 1910?
7. Upton Sinclair and the Jungle: what effect did the Jungle have?
Essay: One of the following two essays will appear on the unit test.
Write a letter back to your home country and explain what life is like for you in America.
Write about a day in your life at work during the Industrial Revolution.
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