Class: United States History
Last Unit:
Promise of America
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Current Unit:
America: Industrial Giant in the Gilded Age
Next Unit:
Populists & Progressives
The Big Idea: Technological Inventions, business innovations, immigrants and urbanization transformed the
American economy & society, making life better for some and harder for others.
Date
Learning Activities
Essential Questions
F/9/11
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Classroom Procedures
V—Ellis Island
What was it like to be an immigrant in 19th century America?
T/9/15
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R—Chinese Exclusion Act
Internet Research Immigrant Experience
What impact did immigrants have on America? Why were some
immigrants discriminated against?
TH/9/17
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L – Rise of Big Business
VC—Industrial Giants
Were the big business leaders of the 19th Century Robber Barons or
Entrepreneurs?
M/9/21
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MM - Child Labor Photos
GR – Conditions of the Working Class
What were the conditions of the Working Class in Industrial America?
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Terms Due
R – Haymarket, Homestead, Pullman Strikes
L –Labor Movement
Quiz on Terms
I – Internet Research on Labor Strikes
M – Songs of Labor Movement
L – Urbanization
Photo Analysis: Urbanization & Jacob Riis
Unit Review
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Test—America: Industrial Giant
Notebooks Due
W/9/23
F/9/25
T/9/29
TH/10/1
What were caused American workers to go on strike during the Gilded
Age?
What were the strategies used by organized labor and why were some
strikes successful when others failed?
What were the problems caused by rapid urbanization, and how did the
other half live?
How did technological inventions, business innovations, immigrants and
urbanization transform the American economy & society?
Terms:
Define in Notebook and Know for Quiz
Read Chs. 4 & 5, pp. 98-153
People
Horatio Alger 101
Entrepreneurs 101
Thomas Edison 102-3
John D. Rockefeller 108
Andrew Carnegie 109
Knights of Labor117
Samuel Gompers 118
Eugene Debs 119-120
IWW 121
William Randolph Hearst 147
Places
Chicago 105
Pittsburg 105
Sweatshop 115
Company town 115
Steerage 130
Ellis Island 130, 134-5
Dumbbell tenement 140
Events
Brooklyn Bridge 103
Sherman Anti-Trust Act 112
Haymarket Square 118-9
Homestead Strike 119
Pullman Strike 119-120
Ideas
Protective Tariff 102
corporation 107
Monopoly 108
Social Darwinism 111
Laissez-faire 111-2
Socialism 117
Melting pot 132
Nativism 132
State Standards:
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Choices have consequences.
Individuals have rights and responsibilities.
Societies are shaped by beliefs, ideas, and diversity.
Societies experience continuity and change over time.
Relationships among people, places, ideas, and environments are dynamic.
 Compelling questions:
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In what ways were immigrants discriminated against and how did Americans attempt to justify it? (Standard 2)
How did new choices created by the Industrial Revolution change the way people lived? (Standard 1)
How did the Industrial Revolution affect the rights of workers? (Standard 2)
What were the results of increased labor demands fueled by industrialization? (Standard 3)
What are some of the benefits of an industrialized society and how are they achieved? (Standard 4)
o What social, economic and political problems created a need for reforms in this era?
*Definition will be provided by Ms. Garvey; G=Glossary, L=Lecture, R=Reading, I=Internet, MM=Multimedia, GR=Group, M=Music