AP US HISTORY
MR. CHEVALIER
Unit #7: The Gilded Age
DURATION: 4 weeks
READINGS:
1. The American Pageant (13th Edition)Chapters 23-26
2. The American Pageant GuidebookChapters 23-26
3. United States History AP Prep (Newman)Chapters 15 (pp.298-303), 17-19
OBJECTIVES:By the end of this unit, each student will be able to:
1. Describe and analyze the political structure and characteristics of the Gilded Age.
2. Explain and analyze the effects of the Industrial Revolution on American industry.
3. Describe and discuss the growth of the West during the latter 19th century.
4. Explain the emergence of a U.S. international policy and presence during the Gilded Age.
EVALUATION:
1. QUIZ – Mon./Tues. Dec. 17/18 (Chapter 23)(Assignments 23 & 24 due)
2. QUIZ –Mon./Tues. Jan. 7/8 (Chapter 24) (Assignments 25 & 26 due)
3. QUIZ – Fri./TMon. Jan. 11/14 (Chapter 25) (Assignments 27 & 28 due)
4. EXAM – Tues./Wed. Jan. 15/16 (ALL) (Guidebook due; Part II, A-F only)
ASSIGNMENTS: The TWO assignments for each chapter are due on the day of the quiz for that chapter.The AMERICAN PAGEANT GUIDEBOOK CHAPTERS WILL BE DUE ON EXAM DAY.
ASSIGNMENT #23:
Chapter 19 Key Terms (Newman): Briefly identify, define, and/or explain.
1) Gilded Age, 2) solid South, 3) Roscoe Conkling, 4) stalwarts, 5) mugwumps, 6) Rutherford B. Hayes, 7) James Garfield, 8) Chester A. Arthur, 9) Thomas Reid, 10) James Blaine, 11) Grover Cleveland, 12) “Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion,” 13) Pendleton Act, 14) Greenback Party, 15) James B. Weaver, 16) Crime of 1873, 17) Benjamin Harrison, 18) billion-dollar congress, 19) veterans’ pensions, 20) McKinley Tariff (1890), 21) Sherman Silver Purchase Act, 22) Populist Party, 23) Panic of 1893, 24) gold drain, 25) free silver, 26) William McKinley.
ASSIGNMENT #24:
Chapter 19 Questions (Newman):p. 392-394: Q. #1-10 (MC)
p. 395: Q. #2 & 4 (Explain fully; no essay required)
ASSIGNMENT #25:
Chapter 17 Key Terms (Newman): Briefly identify, define, and/or explain.
1) Vanderbilt, 2) New York Central Railroad, 3) federal land grants, 4) trunk line, 5) Union and Central Pacific, 6) Jay Gould, 7) Panic of 1893, 8) JP Morgan, 9) interlocking directorates, 10) Bessemer Process, 11) Carnegie, 12) vertical integration, 13) JD Rockefeller, 14) Standard Oil Trust, 15) horizontal integration, 16) antitrust movement, 17) Sherman Anti-trust Act, 18) laissez-faire capitalism, 19) social Darwinism, 20) gospel of wealth, 21) Samuel Morse, 22) Westinghouse, 23) Horatio Alger, 24) white-collar workers, 25) David Ricardo, 26) National Labor Union, 27) Knights of Labor, 28) Samuel Gompers, 29) Pullman Strike, 30) Eugene v. Debs.
ASSIGNMENT #26:
Chapter 17 Questions (Newman):pp. 348-349, Q. #1-10 (MC)
p. 352, Q. #1 & 4 (Explain fully; no essay required)
ASSIGNMENT #27:
Chapter 18 Key Terms (Newman):
1) Columbian Exposition, 2) ‘old immigrants,’ 3) ‘new immigrants,’ 4) Chinese Exclusion Act, 5) Ellis Island, 6) urbanization, 7) streetcar cities, 8) skyscrapers, 9) ethnic neighborhoods, 10) ghettos, 11) tenements, 12) political machine, 13) party boss, 14) settlement house, 15) Salvation Army, 16) National American Women’s Suffrage Association, 17) Temperance Movement, 18) Oliver Wendell Holmes, 19) Clarence Darrow, 20) W.E.B Du Bois, 21) Frank Lloyd Wright, 22) Joseph Pulitzer, 23) William Randolph Hearst, 24) Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley, 25) spectator sports, 26) amateur sports, 27) bachelor sports, 28) melting pot, 29) cultural diversity, 30) Jack London.
ASSIGNMENT #28:
Chapter 18 Questions (Newman):pp. 303-305, Q. #1-10 (MC)
p. 305, Q. #1 & 2 (Explain fully; no essay required)