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Monday, 14 November 2011
Essential Questions
- What were the factors that drew massive numbers of people to the United States from other countries?
- What were the factors that caused people to leave their homelands in such large numbers?
- How did the United States respond to massive immigration during this time period, including the government, citizens, nativists, etc.?
- What accounted for differences in how some immigrant groups were treated with lesser or greater acceptance by white, Protestant Americans?
- Compare and contrast the Melting Pot and Salad Bowl Theories and evaluate which one best describes our current reality?
- How did immigrants balance maintaining their familiar cultures and languages with adapting to mainstream American culture and life?
- How did immigrants finally earn respect for their contributions to our country? Did they?
Objectives
- Describe the new industrial city and its impact on American society.
- Discuss the "New Immigration" and opposition from many native-born Americans.
- Describe the positive and negative aspects of life in large American cities.
- Assess the attempts of social reformers to address the problems of the new urbanization.
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Immigration after 1870
Massive immigration after 1870 and how new social patterns, conflicts, and ideas of national unity developed amid growing cultural diversity
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The sources and experiences of the new immigrants
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"Scientific racism", race relations, and the struggle for equal rights
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How new cultural movements at different social levels affected American life
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The change from workshop to factory and how it altered the worker's world
Source: National Standards for US History - 6.2
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1898-1998: Centennial of the Spanish American War
The virtual destruction of native peoples in the United States by the early 1900's allowed national attention to turn outward. Interest in developing markets in China, and plans for a canal through Central America set the stage for a new level of expansion.
Effects of the Press on Spanish-American Relations in 1898
The Spanish-American War of 1898 marked a turning point in American history. Within a few years of the war's end, the United States was a world power, exercising control or influence over islands in the Caribbean Sea, the mid-Pacific Ocean and close to the Asian mainland. The conflict has sometimes been called "The Newspaper War," largely because the influence of a sensationalist press -- "Yellow Journalism"
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CRITICAL CONTENT FOR THE GILDED AGE (1870-1900)
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INDUSTRIALIZATION
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aridity
big business
business organizations
changing landscapes
city funding
city government
city policing
commercial agriculture
communication
conservation movement
corporate practices
corruption
crop production
culture change
diversity
division of wealth
ecological damage
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entrepreneurs
environmental movement
farm labor
farm organizations
farmers, ranchers & miners
Federal government
financiers
financing
grid iron growth
heavy industry
immigrants
industrialists
industrialization
living standards
local politics
marketing
mechanized farming
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migration
mining
Native Americans
natural resources
opportunity
political bosses
political machines
pollution
ranching
reformers
regional differences
social classes
The Last Frontier
transportation
urban politics
urbanization
women
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IMMIGRATION
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anti-Catholicism
anti-Semitism
Asians
Blacks
civil rights
immigrant contributions
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ethnic diversity
geographic diversity
Hispanics
linguistic diversity
melting pot
discrimination
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opportunity
religious diversity
salad bowl
settlement patterns
Social Darwinism
source countries
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LABOR MOVEMENT
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1896 election
business response
child labor
civil service reform
Depression of 1873-1879
Depression of 1893-1897
employer responses
farm vs. factory work
farmer’s response
fiscal practices
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gender issues
government responses economic problems
labor conflicts
Labor’ response
national labor unions
Omaha Platform of 1892
political problems
poor working conditions
Populism
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race/gender employment
racial/ethnic issues
reform union
regional opportunities
regulation
Second Industrial Revolution
social problems
tariffs
trade union
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FEDERAL INDIAN POLICY
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Westward expansion
Dawes Act, 1887
treatment of Native people
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Native survival strategies
19th century legacy
U.S. army
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missionaries
reformers
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AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
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Spanish American War
territorial acquisitions
geopolitics
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economic interest
racial ideology
missionary zeal
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nationalism
domestic issues
Filipino insurrection
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