Unit taught fromJanuary 7th to January31st

Standards:

  • SSUSH11 The student will describe the growth of big business and technological

innovations after Reconstruction.

a. Explain the impact of the railroads on other industries, such as steel, and on the organization of big business.

b. Describe the impact of the railroads in the development of the West, including the transcontinental railroad, and the use of Chinese labor.

c. Identify John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company and the rise of trusts and monopolies.

d. Describe the inventions of Thomas Edison, including the electric light bulb, motion

pictures, and the phonograph, and their impact on American life.

  • SSUSH12 The student will analyze important consequences of American industrial growth.

a. Describe Ellis Island, the change in immigrants’ origins to southern and eastern Europe, and the impact of this change on urban America.

b. Identify the American Federation of Labor and Samuel Gompers.

c. Describe the growth of the western population and its impact on Native Americans with reference to Sitting Bull and Wounded Knee.

d. Describe the 1894 Pullman strike as an example of industrial unrest.

  • SSUSH13 The student will identify major efforts to reform American society and politics in the Progressive Era.

a. Explain Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and federal oversight of the meatpacking industry.

b. Identify Jane Addams and Hull House and describe the role of women in reform movements.

c. Describe the rise of Jim Crow, Plessy v. Ferguson, and the emergence of the NAACP.

d. Explain Ida Tarbell’s role as a muckraker.

e. Describe the significance of progressive reforms such as the initiative, the recall, and referendum direct election of senators; reform of labor laws; and efforts to improve living conditions for the poor in cities.

  • SSUSH14 The student will explain America’s evolving relationship with the world at the turn of the twentieth century.

a. Explain the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and anti-Asian immigration sentiment on the west coast

  • SSUSH15 The student will analyze the origins and impact of U.S. involvement in World War I.

d. Describe passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, establishing Prohibition, and the Nineteenth Amendment, and establishing woman suffrage.

Standard XI: 436 – 450;
Enduring Understanding:
  • Explain how territorial and economic growth causes change in politics and society
  • Explain how individuals play a role in creating a nation.
  • The student will understand that technological innovations have consequences, both intended and unintended, for a society
Georgia Framework EQ’s:
  • How did industrialization lead to the development of labor unions
  • What was the economic and social impact of immigration laws on urban America?
  • How did the government respond to the issues created by the Industrial Revolution
Objectives:
  • Students should be able to explain how railroads led to the development of the west
  • Students should be able to explain how railroads led to the need for immigrant labor.
  • Students should be able to explain how railroads led to the development of efficient business practices especially in the steel industry and Oil industry.
  • Students should be able to explain who Rockefeller and Carnegie were and their impact on business practices in America.
  • Students should be able to explain how the inventions of the time period had a great affect on the economy of the time.
  • Students should be able to explain who Thomas Edison was and how his inventions impacted American business development.
Standard XII and Standard XIII: 450 – 490 (12); 529 - 580
Enduring Understanding:
  • Explain how Changes in the economy often bring about social and political changes.
  • The student will understand that while change occurs over time, there is continuity to the basic structure of that society
Georgia Framework EQ’s:
  • How did the publishing of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle effect the operations of food industries in the United States
  • What impact did 19th century events at Wounded Knee have on future generations of Native Americans living in that area?
  • What was the impact of Jane Addams and Ida Tarbell?
  • What role did the muckrakers play in the reforms of the Progressive Era?
Objectives:
  • Students should be able to explain why immigrants flocked to America during this time period.
  • Students should be able to explain why the immigrants countries of origins shifted during this time period.
  • Students should be able to explain the impact immigrants had on the urban centers of America.
  • Students should be able to explain the hardships of immigrant lives and conditions the immigrants had to endure.
  • Students should be able to explain the rise of labor unions, specifically the AFL and the impact of Samuel Gompers.
  • Students should be able to explain the Indian wars and the impact of the Sioux Indians and sitting Bull.
  • Students should be able to explain the importance of Custer’s Last Stand at Wounded Knee and the impact that fight had on Native American / USA relations.
  • Students should be able to explain the unrest multiple strikes had on the country and the steps the government had to take to manage these strikes.
  • Students should be able to explain how muckrakers were the catalyst for major political reform.
  • Students should be able to explain how measures such as the settlement house movement and Jane Addams led to the assistance of deprived citizens in the inner city.
  • Students should be able to explain the recall, referendum, and initiative process.
  • Students should be able to describe the impact of political machines in cities.
Standards XIV and XV
Objectives:
  • Students should be able to explain the nativism aimed at Chinese immigrants living on the west coast and the steps taken to limit the rights of these immigrants.
  • Students should be able to explain the impact of the 18th and 19th amendments.

1.New Immigrants
  • Assimilation
  • Ellis Island
  • Angel Island
  • Melting Pot
  • Chinese Exclusion act
2.Corporations
  • Entrepreneur
  • Cartel
  • John D. Rockefeller
  • Horizontal integration
  • Vertical integration
  • Trust
  • Social Darwinism
3.Political Machines
  • Tenements
  • Fredrick Law Olmstead
  • William Randolph Hearst
  • Horatio Alger
  • John Dewey
  • Vaudeville
  • Conspicuous consumerism
  • Joseph Pulitzer
4a.Gilded Age
  • Spoils system
  • Sherman Anti-trust act
  • Civil service
  • Pendleton Civil Service Act
  • Laissez-faire
  • Thomas Edison
4b. Glided Age
  • Elisha Otis
  • Interstate Commerce Commission
  • Protective tariff
  • Bessemer process
  • Mass production
5a. Labor Union#1
  • Sweatshops
  • Collective bargaining
  • Socialism
  • Knights of Labor
  • Terence Powderly
  • American Federation of Labor
5b. Labor union #2
  • Haymarket Riot
  • Homestead Strike
  • Eugene Debs
  • Pullman Strike
  • Wobblies
/ 1.Jim Crow Laws
  • Grandfather clause
  • Booker T. Washington
  • WEB Dubois
  • Plessy vs. Ferguson
  • Niagara Movement
  • NAACP
  • Anti-defamation league
2.Progressivism
  • Direct primary
  • Imitative
  • Referendum
  • recall
3.Muckrakers
  • Upton Sinclair
  • Ida Tarbell
  • Settlement house
  • Jane Addams
  • Florence Kelly
4.Nineteenth Amendment
  • Margaret Sanger
  • NAWSA
  • National Women’s Party
5.Theodore Roosevelt
  • Square deal
  • Hepburn Act
  • Meat Inspection Act
  • Pure Food and Drug Act
  • National Reclamation Act
  • New Nationalism
6.Woodrow Wilson
  • New Freedom
  • 16th amendment
  • Federal reserve act
  • Federal trade commission
  • Clayton anti-trust act

Test :

  • January 31st