Unit Seven: Industrialization, Immigration & Urbanization

Textbook Readings: Chs. 25-27 in Textbook & Packet Ch. 20 (Combines text Chs. 24 & 28) Tentative Schedule: January 9-30 Period 2 Period 3 & 4 Ch 25 Due —Thursday, 1/11 Ch 25 Due—Friday, 1/12 Ch 26 Due —Wednesday, 1/17 Ch 26 Due Thursday, 1/18 Ch 27 Due —Monday, 1/22 Ch 27 Due —Tuesday, 1/23 Packet Ch 20—Thursday, 1/25 Packet Ch 20—Friday, 1/26 Unit 7 Test—Tuesday, 1/30 Unit 7 Test—Wednesday, 1/31

Major Project: Labor/Strike Assignment; DBQ Analysis Project; Native American Rebellion Assignment; History Day Rough Draft Themes:  Impact of Industrialization, Immigration & Urbanization on the Development of American Capitalism  Role of Government in a Changing Economy—Robber Barons & Captains of Industry  Rise of Unions in an Industrializing Capitalist Nation  Building & Reforming the City  Westward Expansion, Agricultural Revolution & the Conquest of Plains Indians  Political Developments of the Gilded Age—Corruption, Populism & the

Key Terms:

Gilded Age Central Pacific Railroad W.E.B. Du Bois Horace Greeley Swift & Armour William James The "Bloody Shirt" Meatpacking Henry George Whiskey Ring Disassembly Line Horatio Alger Tweed Ring Grange Mark Twain Resumption Act Slaughterhouse Cases Charlotte Gilman Bland-Allison Act Munn v. Illinois Carrie Chapman Catt Greenback Labor Party "Wabash" case Pragmatism Pendleton Act Bessemer Process Nativism Mugwumps U.S. Steel Normal Schools Friday Gospel of Wealth Social Gospel Plessy v. Ferguson Yellow Dog Contract Jane Addams & Hull House Civil Rights Cases National Labor Union Ida B. Wells Laissez-faire Capitalism Molly Maquires Tammany Hall Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie Great Railroad Strike Modernism & Morgan Haymarket Affair/Riot Chautauqua Movement Alexander Graham Bell Homestead Strike Comstock Law Thomas Alva Edison Pullman strike WCTA Speculation Knights of Labor Kate Chopin Railroad land grants A.F. of L. Victoria Woodhull Trusts, Pools & Rebates Samuel Gompers Helen Hunt Jackson Vertical integration Interstate Commerce Act Thomas Eakins Horizontal integration Sherman Antitrust Act Winslow Homer Interlocking directorate New Immigrants William Dean Howells Capital Goods Ellis & Angell Islands Sitting Bull Corporations Dumbbell Tenement George A. Custer Plutocracy Mary Baker Eddy Chief Joseph Injunction Social Darwinism Geronimo Union Pacific Railroad Booker T. Washington Comstock Lode Long Drive Carlyle Indian School Omaha Platform Homestead Act Eugene V. Debs Farmers’ Alliance Ghost Dance William Jennings Bryan Populists Battle of Wounded Knee "Billion Dollar" Congress Depression of 1893 Dawes Severalty Act Pension Act (1890) "Cross of Gold" speech

National History Standards Addressed:

Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)  Era 6, Standard 1—How the rise of corporations, heavy industry, and mechanized farming transformed the American people  Standard 1A: The student understands the connections among industrialization, the advent of the modern corporation, and material well-being.  Standard 1B: The student understands the rapid growth of cities and how urban life changed.  Standard 1C: The student understands how agriculture, mining, and ranching were transformed.  Standard 1D: The student understands the effects of rapid industrialization on the environment and the emergence of the first conservation movement.  Era 6, Standard 2—Massive immigration after 1870 and how new social patterns, conflicts, and ideas of national unity developed amid growing cultural diversity.  Standard 2A: The student understands the sources and experiences of the new immigrants.  Standard 2B: The student understands "scientific racism", race relations, and the struggle for equal rights.  Standard 2C: The student understands how new cultural movements at different social levels affected American life.  Era 6, Standard 3—The rise of the American labor movement and how political issues reflected social and economic changes.  Standard 3A: The student understands how the "second " changed the nature and conditions of work.  Standard 3B: The student understands the rise of national labor unions and the role of state and federal governments in labor conflicts.  Standard 3C: The student understands how Americans grappled with social, economic, and political issues.  Era 6, Standard 4—Federal Indian policy and United States foreign policy after the Civil War.  Standard 4A: The student understands various perspectives on federal Indian policy, westward expansion, and the resulting struggles.  Standard 4B: The student understands the roots and development of American expansionism and the causes and outcomes of the Spanish-American War.

APUSH Topic Outline Addressed in this Unit:

14. Development of the West in the Late Nineteenth Century • Expansion and development of western railroads • Competitors for the West: miners, ranchers, homesteaders, and American Indians • Government policy toward American Indians • Gender, race, and ethnicity in the far West • Environmental impacts of western settlement 15. Industrial America in the Late Nineteenth Century • Corporate consolidation of industry • Effects of technological development on the worker and workplace • Labor and unions • National politics and influence of corporate power • Migration and immigration: the changing face of the nation • Proponents and opponents of the new order, e.g., Social Darwinism and Social Gospel 16. Urban Society in the Late Nineteenth Century • Urbanization and the lure of the city • City problems and machine politics • Intellectual and cultural movements and popular entertainment 17. Populism and Progressivism • Agrarian discontent and political issues of the late nineteenth century