Homework Sheet Unit 9:
Industry and Urbanization
Date / Class Activities / Homework Due In Class TodayTues
1/14 / · Politics in the Gilded Age
· Railroads – Pros and Cons
1. Robber Barons and Trusts / · Chapter 24 pages 522-534
· Chapter 25 pages 536-551
Block
1/15-1/16 / 2. Effects of Industrialization on America
3. Labor Unions / · Chapter 25 pages 551-563
· Documents 1-4
Fri
1/17 / · Urbanization
· Immigration / · Chapter 26 pages 565-577
· Document 5
Tues
1/21 / · Changes in America at the Turn of the Century / · Chapter 26 pages 578-596
· Documents 6-8
Final Day / · Unit 9 Test / · Unit 9 Notebook
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 Part 2: Politics in the Gilded Age, 1869-1889
Jay Cooke
Roscoe Conkling
James G. Blaine
Stalwart
Half-Breed
Winfield S. Hancock
Charles J. Guiteau
“Ohio Idea”
Greenback Labor party
GAR
Pendleton Act
Mugwumps
III. Essay Questions:
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
Leland Stanford
Collis P. Huntington
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Thomas Edison
Andrew Carnegie / United States Steel
John D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan
Samuel Gompers
stock watering
pool
rebate
vertical integration (monopoly)
horizontal integration (monopoly)
trust
interlocking directorate
The Grange
Wabash case
Bessemer process
gospel of wealth
New South
yellow dog contract
National Labor Union
Haymarket riot
American Federation of Labor
IV. Essay Questions:
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
Jane Adams
Florence Kelley
Charles Darwin / Theory of Evolution
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
William James
Horatio Alger
Mark Twain
Carrie Chapman Catt
settlement house
nativism
philanthropy
pragmatism
yellow journalism
“New” Immigration
social gospel
Hull House
American Protective Association
Modernist
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. How did the “New Immigration” differ from the “Old Immigration,” and how did Americans respond to it?
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?