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- The student understands the connections among industrialization, the start of the modern corporation and material well-being. (6.1A)
- The student understands the effects of rapid industrialization on the environment and the emergence of the first conservation movement. (6.1D)
- The student understands how the "second industrial revolution" changed the nature and conditions of work. (6.3A)
- The student understands the rise of national labor unions and the role of state and federal governments in labor conflicts. (6.3B)
- The student understands how Americans grappled with social, economic, and political issues. (6.3C)
- Analyze the environmental costs of pollution and the depletion of natural resources during the period 1870-1900.
- Analyze the causes and consequences of the industrial employment of children.
- Analyze the issues and results of the 1896 election and determine to what extent it was a turning point in American politics.
- Explain how business leaders sought to limit competition and maximize profits in the late 19th century.
- Explain the origins of the conservation movement in the late 19th century.
- Analyze how working conditions changed and how the workers responded to new industrial conditions.
- Explain the response of management and government at different levels to labor strife in different regions of the country.
- Explain how Democrats and Republicans responded to civil service reform, monetary policy, tariffs, and business regulation.
- Examine how industrialization made consumer goods more available, increased the standard of living for most Americans, and redistributed wealth.
- Analyze how "reform unions" and "trade unions" differed in terms of their agendas for reform and for organizing workers by race, skill, gender, and ethnicity
- Explain the causes and effects of the depressions of 1873-79 and 1893-97 and the ways in which government, business, labor, and farmers responded.
Guided Lessons:
- Capital and Labor 27 min. EQ 1, 3, 6
Elections of 1896 and 1900, Standard Oil Trust, Plessy v. Ferguson, Lattimer Massacre and strike, U.S. Steel Corporation, J. Pierpont Morgan, Theodore Dreiser, Jacob Riis, William Jennings Bryan, William McKinley, John Mitchell
- Industrial Supremacy 27 min. EQ 1, 2, 4, 5, 6
Knights of Labor, Chicago meatpacking, Great Uprising of 1877, Edison Electric Light Company, Andrew Carnegie, Haymarket riot, American Federation of Labor, The Jungle (Upton Sinclair), Rutherford B. Hayes, Marshall Field, Philip Armour, Gustavus Swift, The Steel Industry, William Le Baron Jenney
- Rise of Unions EQ 2, 4, 5, 6
- Workers in America 2:39
- Union Organizations 3:47
- Major Strikes 3:40
- Timeline
- Company Towns
- Gilded Age Scandal and Corruption EQ 1, 4
- The Tweed Ring and Machine Politics 4:42
- Corruption in Business and Government 3:56
- Timeline
- Biography of President James Garfield
- Biography of President Chester A. Arthur
- Satire on Civil Service Reform
- Consumer Culture EQ 1, 3, 4, 6
- Postwar Industrial Expansion 3:55
- Entrepreneurs 4:02
- The Government Steps In 3:10
- Timeline
- Explore: Andrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth
- Discussion: Industrialization of America
Readings:
- Binding the Nation by Rail 951 words
locomotive, Gilded Age, George Westinghouse, Pullman Car Company, Transcontinental Railroad, John L. O'Sullivan, manifest destiny, Union Pacific, Central Pacific, Promontory Summit, Leland Stanford, railroad tycoons, Cornelius Vanderbilt, James J. Hill, Jay Gould, Interstate Commerce Commission, regulatory agency
- The New Tycoons: John D. Rockefeller 675 words
John D. Rockefeller, capitalism, of industry, robber baron, Edwin Drake, oil industry, rebates, trust, Standard Oil Company
- The New Tycoons: Andrew Carnegie 607 words
steel, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Scott, horizontal integration, vertical combination, Gustavus Swift, Henry Clay Frick, Carnegie Steel Company, Carnegie-Mellon University, Carnegie Hall
- The New Tycoons: J. Pierpont Morgan 575 words
J. Pierpont Morgan, Northern Securities railroad, antitrust law, monopoly
- New Attitudes Toward Wealth 733 words
survival of the fittest, Charles Darwin, natural selection, Social Darwinists, Herbert Spencer, William Graham Sumner, Gospel of Wealth, Horatio Alger, dime novels, American Dream
- Politics of the Gilded Age 687 words
2. Organized Labor 490 words
factory, unions, Triangle Shirtwaist Company, Haymarket Riot, eight-hour day
- The Great Upheaval 603 words
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Martinsburg, West Virginia, strikers, Martinsburg strike, Pennsylvania and Reading Railroads, Great Upheaval, mass strike
- Labor vs. Management 638 words
strike, boycott, sabotage, lockout, yellow-dog contract, ironclad oath, scabs, cross the picket line
- Early National Organizations 603 words
blacklists, William Sylvis, National Labor Union, prison labor, racism, Knights of Labor, International Workers Day, Haymarket Square, Terence Powderly
- American Federation of Labor 478 words
Samuel Gompers, bread and butter issues, National Labor Union, American Federation of Labor, craft unions
- Eugene V. Debs and American Socialism 677 words
radicalism, socialists, Karl Marx, Eugene V. Debs, American Railway Union, Pullman strike, Pullman Car Company, Socialist Party, election of 1912, Industrial Workers of the World, William "Big Bill" Haywood, Wobblies, antiwar movement
Essential Questions
- How did Robber Barons/Captains of Industry justify their wealth?
- How effective were early labor unions in combating widespread misery?
- The Industrial Revolution began in England in the middle of the 18th Century and by 1860, Great Britain was the primary manufacturing nation in the world. By 1900, in a little over a generation the United States had taken over first place and was producing almost twice as much as second place Britain. What were the key factors that sparked this rapid change?
- The rise of Corporations transformed the United States in the late nineteenth century. Discuss the changes and determine if the transformations were for the better or for the worse?
- How successful was organized labor in improving the position of workers in this time period? Analyze the factors that contributed the level of success achieved (2000 DBQ)
- Between 1800-1896 farmers and workers claimed that the government and the courts overwhelmingly favored big business and the rich? To what extent were they correct in their judgment of this situation?
Primary Source Analysis
- Responses to Industrialization
Practice Quizzes
- The Gilded Age I
- The Gilded Age II
- The Gilded Age III
- Populism (1)
- Populism (2)
Assessment
- Writing assignment
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Library of Congress Resources
- America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915
- The African-American Experience in Ohio: Selections from the Ohio Historical Society
- American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 - 1940
- American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
- The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
- By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s
- "California as I Saw It": First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900
- The Chinese in California: 1850-1925
- The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
- The Evolution of the Conservation Movement: 1850 -1920
- First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
- Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
- History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library
- Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
- Photographs from the Chicago Daily News
- Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912
- Small-Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Robert Dennis Collection, 1850-1920
- The South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection
- Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880 - 1920
- Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
Famous people:
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Horatio Alger, Jr.
- Oliver Hudson Kelley
- Christopher Latham Sholes
- Joe Magarac
- Mesabi Range
- Drake's folly
- C.F. Dowd, professorThomas Alva Edison, inventor
- Andrew Carnegie, industrialist
- Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
- Samuel Finley Breese Morse
- George Washington Plunkitt
- Marshall Field
- Frank W. Woolworth
- Frederick Law Olmsted
- George Pullman
- Cornelius Vanderbilt, financier
- John D. Rockefeller, industrialist
- J.P. Morgan, financier
- Jesse Woodson James, outlaw
- William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, Political boss
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, reformer
- John Muir, naturalist
- William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, showman
- Phineas Taylor Barnum, showman
- Edwin Booth, actor
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler, artist
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens, "Mark Twain", author
- William Dean Howells, author
- Henry James, author
Presidential Administrations:
- Abraham Lincoln
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- James A. Garfield
- Grover Cleveland
- Benjamin Harrison
- Grover Cleveland
- Williamn McKinley
- Theodore Roosevelt
Lessons, projects, etc...
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Saturday, 15 October 2011
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10/3
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10/4
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10/5
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10/6
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10/10
Capital and Labor
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10/11
Industrial
Supremacy
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10/12
Rise of Unions &
Gilded Age Scandal
and Corruption
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10/13
Gilded Age Scandal
& Corruption
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10/17
Consumer Culture
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10/18 EQ #3, 4, 6
1. The Gilded Age
2. Binding Nation
Rail
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10/19 EQ #1, 6
1. Rockefeller
2. Carnegie
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10/20 EQ #1, 2, 4, 5, 6
1. J.P. Morgan
2. New Attitudes
Toward Wealth
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10/24 EQ #2, 3, 4, 5
1. Politics Gilded Age
2. Organized Labor
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10/25 EQ #2, 5, 6
1. The Great
Upheaval
2. Labor vs.
Management
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10/26
1. Early
Organizations
2. American Fedn
of Labor
3. Eugene V. Debs
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10/27
Responses to
Industrialization
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10/31 Reviewing
1. Sort/organize
notes
2. Review readings
3. Review Guided
Lessons
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11/1 Blog Building
1. Review readings
2. Review Guided
Lessons
3. Improve answers
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11/2 Blog Building
1. Post answers
2. Add pictures/links
3. Solicit feedback
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11/3 Blog Building
1. Take quizzes
2. Improve answers
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11/7
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11/8
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11/9
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11/10
Cities & Immigrants
Rubric continued
next week
End of first quarter
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How technological, transportation, communication, and marketing improvements and innovations transformed the American economy in the late 19th century
Various types of business organizations
Careers of industrial and financial leaders
How business leaders sought to limit competition and maximize profits in the late 19th century
Comparing entrepreneurs today and a hundred years ago
How geographic factors and rapid industrialization created different kinds of cities throughout the country
Migration of people from farm to city and their adjustment to urban life
How industrialization and urbanization affected the division of wealth, living conditions, and economic opportunity
How urban political machines gained power and how they were viewed by immigrants, middle-class reformers, and political bosses
How urban dwellers dealt with the problems of financing, governing, and policing the cities
Geographical and technological influences affecting farming, mining, and ranching
Conflicts that arose during the settlement of the “last frontier” among farmers, ranchers, and miners
Role of the federal government, the problem of aridity, and cross-cultural encounters in the development of the West
How commercial farming differed in the Northeast, South, Great Plains, and West in terms of crop production, farm labor, financing, and transportation
Gender and ethnic diversity of farmers, miners, and ranchers in the West
Significance of farm organizations
Pollution and the depletion of natural resources between 1870-1900 and their environmental costs
How rapid industrialization, extractive mining techniques and the “gridiron” pattern of urban growth affected environmental health
Origins of environmentalism and the conservation movement in the late 19th century
Industrialization
Standards
How the rise of corporations, heavy industry, and mechanized farming transformed the American people
- The connections between industrialization, the rise of big business, and the advent of the modern corporation
- How rapid industrialization affected urban politics, living standards, and opportunity at different social levels
- How agriculture, mining, and ranching were transformed
- How industrialism, urbanization, large-scale agriculture, and mining affected the ecosystem and initiated an environmental movement
Message board
Industrialization
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Big business and the modern corporation
Urban politics, living standards, and opportunity
- How geographic factors and rapid industrialization created different kinds of cities throughout the country
- Migration of people from farm to city and their adjustment to urban life
- How industrialization and urbanization affected the division of wealth, living conditions, and economic opportunity
- How urban political machines gained power and how they were viewed by immigrants, middle-class reformers, and political bosses
- How urban dwellers dealt with the problems of financing, governing, and policing the cities
Agriculture, mining, and ranching
Geographical and technological influences affecting farming, mining, and ranching
- Conflicts that arose during the settlement of the “last frontier” among farmers, ranchers, and miners
- Role of the federal government, the problem of aridity, and cross-cultural encounters in the development of the West
- How commercial farming differed in the Northeast, South, Great Plains, and West in terms of crop production, farm labor, financing, and transportation
- Gender and ethnic diversity of farmers, miners, and ranchers in the West
- Significance of farm organizations
Environmental impacts and responses
- Pollution and the depletion of natural resources between 1870-1900 and their environmental costs
- How rapid industrialization, extractive mining techniques and the “gridiron” pattern of urban growth affected environmental health
- Origins of environmentalism and the conservation movement in the late 19th century
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