Homework Sheet Unit 9:
Industry and Urbanization
Date
Tues
Class Activities
 Politics in the Gilded Age
Homework Due In Class Today

Chapter 24 pages 522-534
1/10
Short
Wed
1/11
Block
 Railroads – Pros and Cons
 Robber Barons and Trusts
 Chapter 25 pages 536-551
1/13
 Effects of Industrialization on America
 Labor Unions
 Get Review
 Chapter 25 pages 551-563
 Documents 1-4
Tues
 Urbanization
 Chapter 26 pages 565-577
1/17
 Immigration
 Document 5
Block
 Changes in America at the Turn of the
 Chapter 26 pages 578-596
Fri
1/18
Century
Friday
 Unit 9 Test
1/20
 Get Unit 10 Homework
 Documents 6-8
 Unit 9 Review
Sources Used this Unit:
 Pageant (Your Textbook): Kennedy, David M., Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas A. Bailey. The American
Pageant: A History of the Republic. Boston: McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin. 11th Edition.
Unit 9: Industry and Urbanization
Content Covered
Railroads:
Government Subsidizes Transcontinental Railroads; Railroad Revolution; Railroad Corruption;
Government Cracks Down on Railroad Corruption;
Technological Innovations:
Mechanization
Economics:
Panic of 1873; Cleveland Battles to Lower the Tariff; Trusts; Horizontal and Vertical
Integration; Steel; Oil; Government Tackles the Trusts
Politics:
Graft and Corruption; The Liberal Republican Revolt of 1872; Politics of the Gilded Age;
Hayes-Tilden Election of 1876; Compromise of 1877; Garfield and the Election of 1880;
Garfield’s Death and Arthur; Cleveland and 1884; Harrison 1888; Graft and Urban Machine
Politics
Impact of Industry on America:
The South in the “Age of Industry”; Impact of the New Industrial Revolution on America; Labor
Unions; Knights of Labor and AFL;
Population Changes:
Growth of Cities; New Immigration; Reactions to the New Immigration;
Social Life and Issues:
Class Conflict and Ethnic Conflicts; Women’s Suffrage (or lack thereof); Religion in the New
City; Darwin; Higher Education; Booker T. Washington and Education for African Americans;
Increased Literacy and Public Libraries; Reform Writing; Literary Landmarks; The New
Morality; Families and Women in the City; Suffrage; Prohibition; Artistic Triumphs; American’s
Free Time – New forms of Amusement
Primary Reading
 American Pageant: Chapter 24 pages 522 – 534, Chapters 25 and 26
Secondary Reading
Industry in the South:
1. Henry Grady Issues a Challenge (1889) – Document 26-D-1 TAS V2 (p 70-71)
2. A Yankee Visits the New South (1887) – Document 26-D-2 TAS V2 (ps 72-73)
Unions:
3. The Knights of Labor Champion Reform (1887) – Document 26-E-4 TAS V2 (ps 85-86)
4. Samuel Gompers Condemns the Knights (c.1886) – Document 26-E-5 TAS V2 (ps 86-87)
Immigration:
5. A Bintel Brief – Section 15 AF V2
Factories:
6. The Life of a Sweatshop Girl (1902) – Document 26-E-3 TAS V2 (ps 80-85)
7. The Life of a Working Girl (1905) – Document 27-E-2 TAS V2 (ps 110-112)
Suffrage:
8. Jane Addams Demands the Vote for Women (1910) – Document 27-E-4 TAS V2 (ps 115-117)
Chapter 24: Politics in the Gilded Age, 1869-1889
I.
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Jim Fisk
Jay Gould
Thomas Nast
Horace Greeley
Jay Cooke
II.
Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
“Ohio Idea”
the “bloody shirt”
Tweed Ring
Crédit Mobilier
Whiskey Ring
Liberal Republicans
Resumption Act
“Crime of ‘73”
III.
Essay Questions:
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
Roscoe Conkling
James G. Blaine
Samuel Tilden
Winfield S. Hancock
Charles J. Guiteau
Bland-Allison Act
Greenback Labor party
GAR
Stalwart
Half-Breed
Pendleton Act
Mugwumps
26.
What made politics in the Gilded Age extremely popular--with over 80 percent voter
participation--yet so often corrupt and unconcerned with issues?
27.
What caused the end of the Reconstruction? What did the North and South each gain from the
Compromise of 1877?
28.
What were the results of the Compromise of 1877 for race relations? How were the political,
economic, and social conditions of southern African-Americans interrelated?
29.
What caused the rise of the “money issue” in American politics? What were the backers of
“greenback” and silver money trying to achieve?
30.
How did civil service come to partially replace the political patronage system, and what were the
consequences of the change for politics?
Chapter 25: Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900
I.
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Leland Stanford
Collis P. Huntington
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Thomas Edison
II.
Define and state the historical significance of the following:
9.
10.
11.
12.
stock watering
pool
rebate
vertical integration
III.
Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
Grange
Wabash case
Bessemer process
United States Steel
gospel of wealth
IV.
Essay Questions:
5.
6.
7.
8.
13.
14.
15.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan
Samuel Gompers
horizontal integration
trust
interlocking directorate
New South
yellow dog contract
National Labor Union
Haymarket riot
American Federation of Labor
26.
What was the impact of the transcontinental rail system on the American economy and society in
the late nineteenth century?
27.
How did the huge industrial trusts develop in industries such as steel and oil, and what was their
effect on the economy?
28.
What early efforts were made to control the new industrial giants, and how effective were
these efforts?
29.
What was the effect of the Industrial Revolution on American laborers, and how did various
labor organization attempt to respond to he new conditions?
30.
Compare the impact of the new industrialization on the North and the South. Why was the
“New South” more a slogan than a reality?
Chapter 26: America Moves to the City, 1865-1900
I.
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Jane Adams
Florence Kelley
Charles Darwin
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
II.
Define and state the historical significance of the following:
10.
11.
12.
settlement house
nativism
evolution
III.
Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
New Immigration
social gospel
Hull House
American Protective Association
Modernist
6.
7.
8.
9.
13.
14.
15.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
William James
Horatio Alger
Mark Twain
Carrie Chapman Catt
philanthropy
pragmatism
yellow journalism
Chautauqua movement
Morrill Act
Comstock Law
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Eighteenth Amendment
IV.
Essay Questions:
26.
What new social problems did urbanization create? How did Americans respond to these problems?
27.
it?
How did the “New Immigration” differ from the “Old Immigration,” and how did Americans respond to
28.
How was American religion affected by the urban transformation, the New Immigration, and cultural
and intellectual changes?
29.
How did American social criticism, imaginative writing, and art all relate to the urban industrial changes
of the late nineteenth century?
30.
How and why did women assume a larger place in American society at this time? (Compare their status
in this period with that of the pre-Civil War period described in Chapter 17.) How were changes in their
condition related to changes in both the family and the larger social order?