Industrialization, Immigration and Urbanization

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11.2 Students analyze the relationship among the rise of industrialization, large-scale rural-to-urban migration, and massive immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.

1. Know the effects of industrialization on living and working conditions, including the portrayal of working conditions and food safety in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.

2. Describe the changing landscape, including the growth of cities linked by industry and trade, and the development of cities divided according to race, ethnicity, and class.

3. Trace the effect of the Americanization movement.

4. Analyze the effect of urban political machines and responses to them by immigrants and middle-class reformers.

5. Discuss corporate mergers that produced trusts and cartels and the economic and political policies of industrial leaders.

6. Trace the economic development of the United States and its emergence as a major industrial power, including its gains from trade and the advantages of its physical geography.

7. Analyze the similarities and differences between the ideologies of Social Darwinism and Social Gospel.

Define the following terms on a separate sheet of paper:

1. Entrepreneur

2. Tenement

3. Laissez-faire

4. Steerage

5. Graft

6. nativism

7. Gilded age

8. Anarchists

9. Melting Pot

10. political machines

11. monopoly

12. Socialism

13. Spoils System

14. corporation

15. Laissez-fair capitalism

16. Ellis Island

17. settlement houses

18. Angel Island

19. Americanization

20. Social Darwinism

21. Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

22. Homestead Act

23. Carnegie and Social Darwinism

24. Transcontintinental railroad

25. Robber Barons

26. Lowell Mills

Answer the following on a separate sheet of paper:

1. Why did children work in factories?

2. How did the concentration of wealth change with the industrial revolution?

3. What effect did the railroad have on America- economic, social, geographic?

4. Describe housing for immigrants in the cities.

5. What was the Americanization Movement?

6. How did immigration patterns change between 1860 and 1910?

7. Upton Sinclair and the Jungle: what effect did the Jungle have?

Essay: One of the following two essays will appear on the unit test.

Write a letter back to your home country and explain what life is like for you in America.

Write about a day in your life at work during the Industrial Revolution.