U.S. on the Brink of Change
1877-1913
US HISTORY
Chapters 6/7/8/9
Mr. Schwager
Unit Overview
This unit will examine the attempt of the citizens of the United States to cope with the changes brought on by the shift
from an agriculturally based society to one based upon industry. Students will analyze the innovation and blessings of geography
that fueled and created the American Dream for many, but not all, citizens. Students will investigate America as a country
struggling with new waves of immigration. They will also inquire into attempts of various groups to hold onto cultural ways in the
face of overall rapid society-at-large change. By the end of the unit, students will be familiar with the significant leaders that
attempted to resolve the conflicting values that emerged. Students will explore how this combination of leaders led the country
from an isolationist, agrarian past and guided the US forcefully into the Industrial Age and its first steps onto the world stage.
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Enduring Understandings
Ethno-centrist attitudes often influence social, economic, and political policies.
Technology often changes societies basic cultural institutions.
Changing markets and economic systems often drives foreign involvement.
Movements and growth can lead to the isolation of groups and cultures.
Policies for the common good are often connected to the movements toward equality.
Changes in behavior towards environmental resources often result from regional growth.
Essential Outcomes (EOC)
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What is the Bessemer process?
Monopolies/Trusts
Define Social Darwinism:
Define: Assimilation
What area of Europe did most people immigrate to the US from in the 1890’s?
Where is Angel Island/Ellis Island and which immigrants would have came through that station?
What is a quota system? How did it help limit immigration?
The fire at the Triangle Shirt Waist factory showed a lack of what?
Define Laissez Faire:
What industries where the following men associated with Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, JP Morgan, George
Pullman.
What did Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright Brothers and Thomas Edison invent?
Other than the car, what was Henry Ford famous for?
Define Urbanization:
Define Unions, Melting Pot, Gospel of Wealth, Civil Service exams,
Chapter 6 Big Business
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Thomas Edison
Orville & Wilbur Wright
Edwin Drake
Alexander Graham Bell
Christopher Sholes
Bessemer Process
Henry Ford/assembly line
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Monopolies/trusts
Interstate Commerce Act
Transcontinental railroad
Immigrant groups that built railroad
Railroad Time
George Pullman
Credit Mobilier
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
Vertical Integration
Horizontal Consolidation
Holding Company
Social Darwinism
Unions/ scabs
collective bargaining
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Haymarket Square
American Federation of Labor
Eugene Debs
Industrial workers of the World
Chapter 7 Immigration
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Americanization
Gentleman’s Agreement
Chinese Exclusion Act
Ellis Island/Angel Island
cultural shock
urban problem in the late 1800’s
William Tweed
row houses
Graft
Political Machine
Kickback
Patronage
Civil Service
Chapter 8/9
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Put the Presidents in order from Cleveland to
Wilson.
2. 17th Amendment
3. 19th Amendment
4. Goals of Progressives? List at least 4
5. Conservation – Which President promoted
conservation? What was the first national park in
America? What agency was started to protect our
forests?
6. Upton Sinclair
7. Ida Tarbell
8. Lincoln Steffens
9. Muckraker
10. Orville & Wilbur Wright
11. Election of 1912 – 3 candidates, who won and
why?
12. President McKinley’s Assassination. Why was he
shot, who took over for him?