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CHAPTER 17 – INDUSTRIAL AMERICA: CORPORATIONS AND CONFLICTS, 1877 - 1911
(PG. 544 - 573)
ESSENTIAL/GUIDING QUESTIONS:
1. EXPLAIN HOW INDUSTRIALIZATION RESHAPED AMERICAN SOCIETY.
2. EXPLAIN WHAT IS MEANT BY THE GILDED AGE.
3. EXPLAIN HOW INTERNATIONAL AND INTERNAL MIGRATION INCREASED POPULATIONS IN URBAN
AREAS, HOW INEQUITIES INCREASED, AND THE ROLE BIG BUSINESS PLAYED IN THIS.
4. EXPLAIN HOW THE TIES BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND BIG BUSINESS LED TO CALLS FOR REFORM.
5. EXPLAIN HOW THE “GOSPEL OF WEALTH” ILLUSTRATES THE ARGUMENTS MADE TO JUSTIFY THE
SUCCESS OF THOSE AT THE TOP OFF SOCIOECONOMIC LADDER.
6. EXPLAIN HOW VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION FUNCTIONED.
7. EXPLAIN THE CULTURAL IMPACT OF CHANGES MADE IN TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY, AND
GLOBAL MARKETS DURING THE GILDED AGE.
8. IDENTIFY THE NEW OPPORTUNITIES THIS ERA PROVIDED FOR WOMEN.
9. DESCRIBE THE EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN IN THE WORKFORCE DURING THIS PERIOD.
10. IDENTIFY WHO THE NEW IMMIGRANTS WERE AND THEIR EXPECTATIONS OF IMMIGRATING TO
AMERICA.
11. EXPLAIN WHY THE U.S. PASSED THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT.
12. EXPLAIN HOW FARMERS RESPONDED TO INDUSTRIALIZATION IN THE GILDED AGE.
13. EXPLAIN HOW THE GRANGE TRIED TO RESIST CORPORATE CONTROL BY CREATING LOCAL AND
REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.
14. COMPARE THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR AND THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR.
KEY TERMS:
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HOMESTEAD LOCKOUT
VERTICAL INTEGRATION
HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
ANDREW CARNEGIE & “GOSPEL OF
WEALTH”
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CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT
GREAT RAILROAD STRIKE OF 1887
HAYMARKET SQUARE
KNIGHTS OF LABOR
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR
SAMUEL GOMPERS
QUESTIONS:
1. Based on the information presented in this chapter, do you think industrial statesmen or robber
baron for Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan? Do you believe there is a more
appropriate term for these businessmen? Defend your answer with evidence.
2. Use the New York Times’ “Immigration Explorer”
(http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigrationexplorer.html?_r=0) and “Mapping America: Every City, Every Block
(http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer) compare immigration now and then
(period addressed in the chapter). For White Plains/Westchester County, what’s changed? What
has stayed the same? What do you notice about the racial and ethnic group distribution in White
Plains?
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3. Compare the work experiences of a young girl working in a Lowell, MA in the 1840s and a young
woman working as a secretary or telephone operator in the 1890s. What are the similarities and
differences? What does this comparison inform us as historians about changes in workers’ lives
over the decades?
CHAPTER 18 – THE VICTORIANS MAKE THE MODERN WORLD, 1880 - 1917 (PG. 574 - 605)
ESSENTIAL/GUIDING QUESTIONS:
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IDENTIFY NEW CONSUMER PRACTICES.
EXPLAIN HOW AND WHY SPORTS EVOLVED AND THEIR IMPACT ON AMERICAN SOCIETY.
IDENTIFY THE CHANGES IN FAMILY LIFE.
EVALUATE THE VIEWS OF BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.
EXPLAIN HOW WOMEN USED THEIR BELIEFS ABOUT THEIR “SPECIAL ROLE” TO JUSTIFY POLITICAL ACTIVISM.
ANALYZE THE ARGUMENTS THAT BUSINESS LEADERS USED TO DEFEND THEIR SUPPORT OF SOCIAL
DARWINISM.
KEY TERMS:
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PLESSY V. FERGUSON
SIERRA CLUB
COMSTOCK ACT
ATLANTA COMPROMISE
WOMAN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
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SOCIAL DARWINISM
SOCIAL GOSPEL
IDA B. WELLS
JOHN MUIR
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
CHAPTER 19 – THE RISE AND REFORM OF INDUSTRIAL CITIES, 1880 – 1917 (PG. 606 –
635)
ESSENTIAL/GUIDING QUESTIONS:
1. EXPLAIN HOW AMERICA’S INDUSTRIAL CITIES WERE DIFFERENT FROM THE TYPICAL CITY BEFORE 1860.
2. IDENTIFY WHAT CAUSED THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MASS TRANSIT SYSTEMS.
3. IDENTIFY THE CAUSES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MIGRATION FROM THE RURAL SOUTH TO THE INDUSTRIAL
NORTH.
4. EXPLAIN HOW CITIES REFLECTED SOCIAL DIVIDE, BUT PRESENTED EXPANDED ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AT
THE SAME TIME. BE SURE TO CONSIDER DIFFERENCES IN LEISURE TIME AND EXPENDITURES.
5. EXPLAIN HOW URBAN MACHINES FUNCTIONED AND ACCOUNT FOR THEIR POPULARITY DESPITE THEIR
CORRUPTION.
6. EVALUATE THE EXTENT TO WHICH REFORMERS ADDRESSED THEIR GOAL TO LIMIT THE POWER OF POLITICAL
MACHINES.
7. EXPLAIN WHAT WAS MEANT BY “WHITE SLAVERY.”
8. EXPLAIN HOW REFORMERS RESPONDED TO THE SOCIAL PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH INDUSTRIALIZATION.
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KEY TERMS:
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TENEMENT
YELLOW JOURNALISM
MUCKRAKERS
POLITICAL MACHINE
PROGRESSIVISM
SOCIAL SETTLEMENT
HULL HOUSE
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PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACT
TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE
JACOB RIIS
JANE ADDAMS
MARGARET SANGER
UPTON SINCLAIR/THE JUNGLE
QUESTIONS:
1. IMAGINE YOU HAVE JUST ARRIVED IN A LARGE AMERICAN CITY IN THE EARLY 1900S (EITHER AN IMMIGRANT
OR MIGRANT). BASED ON THE INFO AND IMAGES PRESENTED IN THE CHAPTER, WOULD YOU HAVE WANTED TO
STAY OR TURN AROUND AND HEAD BACK TO YOUR NATIVE HOME? WHY? WHAT FACTORS MIGHT HAVE
SHAPED YOUR DECISION?
DUE DATE: Thursday, February 25, 2016