Chapter 1 Section 1- Exploration and the Colonial Era



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America Comes of Age (ACOA) Chapter 4- The Expansion of American Industry American Studies

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Chapter 4 Section 1- A Technological Revolution Due: _________________

Objectives-

• Explain how people’s daily lives changed in the decades following the Civil War.

• Describe the effect that advances in transportation, communication, and electric power had on both people and business.

• Explain the effects of the development of the Bessemer process.

|Key terms and Ideas |

|Patent- Contrast between1860 and 1890? |Electric Power |

|Productivity |Thomas Edison |

|Transcontinental Railroad |Power Plants |

|Federal Land Grants |George Westinghouse |

|Central Pacific Railroad |Transformers/ Alternating Current |

|Union Pacific Railroad |Electricity/ Effect on Daily Life |

|Role of Immigrants |Bessemer Process |

|Time Zones |Mass Production |

|Effect on Transportation Costs? |Brooklyn Bridge |

|Communication | |

|Telegraph/ Morse Code | |

|Telephone | |

Chapter 4 Section 2- The Growth of Big Business Due: _________________

OBJECTIVES-

• Explain why American industrialists of the late 1800s were called both “robber barons” and “captains of industry”.

• Describe Carnegie’s belief of the “gospel of wealth” and the theory of social Darwinism.

• Summarize the ways industrialists gained a competitive edge over their rivals and the effect big business had on American Society.

|Key terms and Ideas |

|Meaning of “Robber Barons” |Trusts |

|Why? |Standard Oil Trust |

|Meaning of “Captains of Industry” |Sherman Antitrust Act |

|Why? |Effectiveness? Unions? |

|Andrew Carnegie/ Carnegie Steel |Horizontal Consolidation |

|Use of Bessemer Process |Rockefeller- Standard Oil Trust |

|Philanthropist/ “Gospel of Wealth” |Vertical Consolidation |

|Charles Darwin/ Social Darwinism |Carnegie- Carnegie Oil |

|Role of Government |Economies of Scale |

|Monopoly/ Cartels |Effects on American Society |

|Government Response |Overproduction/ Wage Cuts/ Layoffs |

| |Business Cycle |

Chapter 4 Section 3- Industrialization and Workers Due: _________________

OBJECTIVES

• Describe the makeup of America’s growing work force including the role of women and children.

• Describe factory work in the late 1800s.

|Key terms and Ideas |

|Immigration between 1860-1890 |Factory Work |

|Contract Labor Act |Government Regulations? |

|Internal Migration |Piecework |

|Role of farming conditions |Winslow Taylor- The Principles of Scientific Management |

|African Americans? |Farm vs Factory Work |

|Working Families- Why? |Division of Labor |

|Effect on Children |Safety? |

| |Working Women and Children |

| |Role of Women |

| |Role of Children/ Effect on Children |

| |Jacob Riis- Children of the Poor |

Chapter 4 Section 4- The Great Strikes Due: _________________

OBJECTIVES

• Describe the growing gap between the rich business owners and poor workers.

• Explain the role of unions and their activities.

• Describe the causes and outcomes of the major strikes of the late 1800s.

|Key terms and Ideas |

|Gap between the rich and poor |Reaction of Employers |

|Census of 1890? |Measures used to stop Unions? |

|Socialism? |The Great Strikes |

|Karl Marx- Communist Manifesto |Railroad Strike of 1877 |

|Public Response? |Why? |

|Labor Unions |Results? Role of Federal Gov.? |

|Trade Unions |Haymarket (1886) |

|National Trade Unions- Membership? |Goals? |

|Role of unions- Goals? |Scabs? |

|The Knights of Labor |Anarchists? |

|Membership? |Effect of Haymarket Riot/ Public View? |

|Goals? |Homestead (1892) |

|Effects of strikes? |Why? |

|The American Federation of Labor (AFL) |Pinkertons? |

|Membership? African Americans & Women? |Alexander Berkman/ effect on public? |

|Goals? |Result of Homestead Strike? |

|Methods |Pullman (1894) |

|Collective Bargaining? |Why? |

|Closed Shop |Pullman Strike and mail? |

|Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies) |Role of Sherman Antitrust Act? |

|Leadership and Membership? |Pattern set by Pullman Strike? |

Chapter 6- Politics, Immigration, and Urban Life, 1870-1915

Chapter 6 Section 1- Politics of the Gilded Age Due: _________________

OBJECTIVES-

• Describe the political climate of the Gilded Age.

• Explain how the government attempted to reform the Spoils System and regulate railroads.

• Explain the goals of and the government’s response to Coxey’s army.

|Key terms and Ideas |

|Define Gilded Age |Reform of the Spoils System |

|Business/ Government |Civil Service |

|Laissez-Faire |Rutherford B. Hayes reforms? |

|Tariff & Subsidy |Republican Split- Factions? |

|The Spoils System |Fate of Garfield- Why? |

|Effect on Politics? |Pendleton Civil Service Act |

|Republican Party- Supporters? |Regulating the Railroads |

|Political Views and Policies |Complaints about the railroads? |

|Blue Laws |Munn v. Illinois- problem? |

|Democratic Party- Supporters? |Interstate Commerce Act? Results? |

|Political Views and Policies |Coxey’s Army |

| |Goals |

| |Government Response |

Chapter 6 Section 2- People on the Move Due: _________________

OBJECTIVES-

• Describe the experiences of immigrants in the late 1800s.

• Compare the experience of immigrants from Europe, Asia, and Mexico.

|Key terms and Ideas |

|Reasons for immigrating? |Asian Immigrants |

|Steerage |Cultural Differences- Impact? |

|Birds of Passage |Railroads and Chinese |

|Origin of Immigrants 1865-1890 (Region) |Labor Unions- wages? |

|Origin of Immigrants 1890-1920 (Region) |Chinese Exclusion Act |

|European Immigrants |Angel Island |

|Main immigration port/ The Golden Door? |Japanese Immigrants- Employment |

|Ellis Island |Schooling and Segregation |

|Physical Exams/ Quarantine |Gentlemen’s Agreement |

|Immigrant Communities |Web Alien Act |

|Settlement in North vs. South? |Mexican Immigrants |

|Treatment by Employers? |Newlands National Reclamation Act |

| |Mexican Employment |

| |Effect of Mexican Revolution/ WWI |

| |Immigration Restriction Act of 1921 |

Chapter 6 Section 3- Challenge of the Cities Due: _________________

OBJECTIVES-

• Explain why people left farms for cities in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

• Describe the new developments that helped cities to grow in size (area).

• Describe the urban living conditions and the result of city growth.

|Key terms and Ideas |

|Motives for moving to cities |Results of Urban Growth |

|Farmers/ African Americans |Flight of the upper and middle class |

|Growth of Cities |Political division |

|Pre Civil War |Political Machines |

|Post Civil War- Why Change? |Graft |

|Suburbs |Immigrants role |

|Types of Transportation |Tammany Hall |

|New Buildings |Thomas Nast/ Methods/ Results |

|Urban Conditions | |

|Tenements | |

|Conditions of Slums | |

|Fire/ Contagious Disease | |

|Ghettos | |

|Restrictive Covenants | |

|Jacob Riis/ Results | |

Chapter 6 Section 4- Ideas for Reform Due: _________________

OBJECTIVES-

• Describe efforts in the late 1800s to control immigration and personal behavior

• Explain how different movements helped the needy.

|Key terms and Ideas |

|Americans attitude toward immigrants |Purity Crusaders |

|Nativism |Vice? |

|Chinese Exclusion Act |Anthony Comstock? / Comstock Law |

|Nativist Goals |Goals? |

|Repeal of the Contract Labor Act |Helping the Needy |

|The Immigration Restriction League |Josephine Shaw Lowell/ Charity Organization Society (COS)/ Goals? |

|Literacy Tests |Social Gospel Movement/ Goals? |

|Groups Targeted? Why? |Settlement House Movement |

|Prohibition |Jane Addams/ Ellen Gates Starr/ Hull House? |

|Temperance Movement | |

|Membership Groups? | |

|Prohibition- Why? | |

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