Industrialization & Reform Learning Targets Topic: History I can identify major eras and events in U.S. History and explain: Industrial Revolution Age of Reform Topic: Economics I can understand the origins and development of the free enterprise system in the United States and describe its characteristics and benefits during the 19 th century Free Enterprise Limited government Competition Topic: Science & Technology Steamboat I can analyze the effects of technological innovations such as the steamboat, the cotton gin, interchangeable parts. Cotton Gin Interchangeable Parts Mass Production Eli Whitney I can analyze the impact of transportation systems on the growth development, and urbanization of the United States. Erie Canal National Road
I can analyze the impact of transportation and communication systems on the growth development, and urbanization of the United States. Turnpikes Railroads Telegraph Morse Code I can explain how technological innovations brought about economic growth, such as how the factory system contributed to rapid industrialization and the transcontinental railroad led to the opening of the West. Factory system Textile mills Industrialization Urbanization Transcontinental Railroad I can describe the positive and negative consequences of human modification of the physical environment of the U.S. Air pollution Water contamination Deforestation I can compare the effects of scientific discoveries and technological innovations that have influenced daily life. Sewing machine Steel plow Mechanical reaper
Topic: Economics I can identify economic differences among different regions of the United States North: Factory system Manufactured goods South: Plantation system Raw materials (cotton) Midwest: Small farms West: Mining I can explain the reason for the development of the plantation system and the spread of slavery Domestic Slave Trade Slave Code Topic: Culture Irish I can identify selected racial, ethnic, and religious groups that settled in the United States and explain their reasons for immigration: Potato Famine Germans Chinese Manual labor I can explain the relationship between urbanization and conflicts resulting from differences in religion, social class, and political benefits. Nativism Know-Nothing Party
I can identify the political/social/economic contributions of women. Lowell Mill Girls Sojourner Truth I can describe religious influence on social movements, including the Second Great Awakening Second Great Awakening Social reform Conditions for factory workers I can evaluate the impact of reform movements, including: Labor Reform Trade Unions Strike Child Labor Temperance Temperance Participation of women Educational Reform Horace Mann Common School Care of the disabled Hearing impairments Vision impairments
Prison Reform Dorothea Dix Asylums Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison Harriet Beecher Stowe I can describe the historical development of the abolitionist movement. Uncle Tom s Cabin Frederick Douglass North Star Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Lucretia Mott Suffrage Women s Rights Movement Elizabeth Cady Stanton Declaration of Sentiments Seneca Falls Convention Susan B. Anthony
Hudson River School I can describe developments in art, music, and literature that are unique to American culture, such as: John James Audubon Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson Romanticism Topic: Citizenship I can analyze reasons for and the impact of selected examples of civil disobedience, such as Thoreau s refusal to pay a tax. Civil Disobedience U.S. Mexican War Henry David Thoreau