US History Mr. Martin Unit 7: The Birth of Modern America Chapters 13-16 This unit explores the transformation of the US from a rural nation into an industrial, urban nation during the period from 1865 to 1900. 10/16: Lesson: The Rise of Segregation Discuss how African Americans in the South were disfranchised and how segregation became legalized after Reconstruction ended. Describe three major African American leaders response to discrimination Lesson: Settling the West Describe the ways that new technology changed open range ranching Explain how & why people began to settle the Plains. Discuss the conflicts that arose between the Plains Indians & American settlers. Identifications: The following terms must be highlighted in your notebook. Jim Crow Segregation Literacy Test/Poll Tax Grandfather Clause Plessy v. Ferguson Booker T. Washington Tuskegee Institute W.E.B. Dubois Sharecropper Ida B. Wells Lynching NAACP Barbed-wire Great Plains Homestead Act Plains Indian Sitting Bull Colonel Custer Dawes Act Battle of Little Big Horn Chief Joseph Wounded Knee Assimilate Class work: Read Ch. 15.2 (496) and Ch. 16.1 (520) Homework: Answer questions 1-17 of this study guide. 10/17: Lesson: The Rise of Industry Explain the factors that nurtured the growth of American industry Identify the key inventions and inventors of this time Quiz on study guide questions 1-20. Laissez-faire Social Darwinism Entrepreneur Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Edison Wright Brothers Class work: Read Ch. 13.1(p.436) Homework: Answer study guide questions 18-25.
10/18: Lesson: The Industrial Age Discuss the factors that stimulated the spread of railroads and how railroads spurred industrial growth Describe the major philosophies that promoted the development of monopolies in the late 1800s Identify the major industrialists & how they acquired power and wealth: is it right to call them Robber Barons or Captains of Industry? Identifications: Highlight the following terms in your notebook Transcontinental Railroad Cornelius Vanderbilt Land Grants Robber Barons Corporation Pools Vertical Integration Horizontal Integration Monopoly Trust Andrew Carnegie Bessemer Process Gospel of Wealth John Rockefeller Standard Oil JP Morgan Social Darwinism Rugged Individualism Class work: Highlight key terms in your notebook. Read Ch. 13.2 (p.443) Homework: Study guide questions 26-37. 10/19: Lesson: The Development of Labor Unions Describe the industrial working conditions in the US in the late 1800s. Identify the major unions that developed in the late 1800s Explain the purpose of unions and how employers, the government, and the public responded to them Identifications: Highlight the following terms in your notebook Union Collective Bargaining Railroad Strike of 1877 Knights of Labor AFL Samuel Gompers Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Strike Blacklist Injunction Class work: Highlight key terms in your notebook. Read Ch. 13.3 (p.450) Ch.14.1/14.2 (p.464-479) Homework: Study guide questions 38-45. 10/20: Lesson: Immigration & Urbanization QUIZ TODAY Identify the Old & New Immigrant groups in America in the late 1800s. Analyze the reasons why immigrants came to America Explain how nativism affected immigrants in America Explain the technological developments that made the growth of cities possible Evaluate the role that political machines played in urban politics in the late 1800s Identifications: Highlight the following terms in your notebook Ellis Island Angel Island Melting Pot Old Immigrant New Immigrant Ethnic Neighborhood Chinese Exclusion Act Social Gospel Movement Nativism Urbanization Jacob Riis Boss Tweed/Tammany Hall Political Machine Graft Thomas Nast (p. 420-421) Homework: Study guide questions 46-56. Highlight key terms in your notebook.
10/23: Lesson: Politics of the Gilded Age Identify the characteristics of politics at the national & state levels in the late 1800s Explain how each major party chose to handle the major issues of the period Explain the economic problems faced by the farmers in the late 1800s Describe who joined the Populist Party and what the party s goals were Identifications: The following terms must be highlighted in your notebook Patronage Pendleton Act Sherman Anti-Trust Act Populism William Jennings Bryan William McKinley Cross of Gold Homework: Answer study guide questions 57-59. Highlight key terms in your notebook. 10/24: Lesson: Finish any remaining work and review for test, Jeopardy Homework: Study for Unit 7 Test 10/25: Lesson: Unit 7 Test
Study Guide 1. Name two methods used to deny voting rights to African Americans? Poll Tax/Literacy test 2. Supreme Court case that made segregation legal? Plessy v. Ferguson 3. Name given to the laws which officially segregated society? Jim Crow Laws 4. African American leader who stresses an industrial education? Booker T. Washington 5. Place of higher learning designed to help African Americans learn a vocation? Tuskegee Institute 6. Harvard educated African American leader who wanted full civil rights? W.E.B. Du Bois 7. Woman who led a crusade against lynching? Ida B. Wells 8. What is another name for the Great Plains? Great American Desert 9. Name four Plains Indian tribes? Sioux, Blackfeet, Crows, Cheyenne Comanche 10. What animal did the railroads nearly drive to extinction? Buffalo 11. What is a cross-country railroad called? Trans-continental Railroad 12. What was the basic conflict between settlers and Indians? View of land (resources) 13. What Indian lands were invaded by miners looking for gold? Black Hills of Dakota 14. Name the battle where Custer and his men were defeated? Little Big Horn 15. Who was Chief of the Nez Perce Indians? Chief Joseph 16. Name the last of the Indian battles? Wounded Knee 17. What law gave Indian families 160 acres of land? Dawes Act 18. What name was given to the area where cattle were ranched? Open- Range 19. What invention of Joseph Glidden s changed the frontier? Barbed Wire 20. What law created 160 acre farms for settlers? Homestead Act 21. What policy has the government not interfering in economics? Laissez faire 22. What laws protected American businesses from foreign competition? Protective tariffs
23. Who invented the telephone? Alexander Graham Bell 24. Who perfected the incandescent light bulb? Thomas Edison 25. What was Horatio Alger known for? Wrote rags to riches novels 26. This is a type of business that controls the supply of a product? Monopoly 27. When a business controls all other companies of the same type? Horizontal integration 28. When a business controls other companies that contribute to that industry? Vertical integration 29. Leader of the Standard Oil Company? John D. Rockefeller 30. Leader of the steel industry? Name of the book that he wrote? Andrew Carnegie/ Wealth better known as The Gospel of Wealth 31. Major banking leader in the nation? J.P. Morgan 32. Leading railroad owner? Vanderbilt 33. Theory that the best business will survive and prosper? Social Darwinism 34. Name given to the major owners of the big businesses? Robber Barons 35. Describe working conditions in the late 1800 s? Bad. Low pay, long hours, no safety requirements, child labor 36. What is the job of a labor union? Take care of the members. Try to improve their working conditions 37. What method did unions use to try and achieve their goals? Boycotts, closed shops, strikes, picketing 38. What were three ways employers used to limit the power of unions? Black listing, court injunctions, lockouts, Pinkertons 39. Which Labor Union accepted all types of workers? Knights of Labor 40. What happened at Haymarket Square that hurt the goal of unions? Union blamed for killing people (policeman) 41. What type of worker was allowed to join the AFL? Only skilled workers 42. Who led the AFL? Samuel Gompers
43. What part of Europe were the first immigrants to the United States from? Northern and Western Europe 44. How did immigration change in the later 1800 s? Switched to Southern and Eastern Europe (Jews, Poles, Asians) 45. What are ethnic neighborhoods? Areas in cities where people lived with similar backgrounds to ease transitions into America 46. What group did the government ban from further immigration in 1882? Chinese 47. What were the cramped, poorly built apartment buildings of the cities called? Tenements 48. What book did Jacob Riis write? How the Other Half Lives 49. What was Riis book about? Poor living conditions in the city 50. What was Hull House & who started it Settlement House/ Jane Addams 51. What is a political machine? Informal political group designed to get and keep power 52. What famous political machine controlled New York City? Tammany Hall 53. The process of giving government favors in return for votes? Spoils system or Patronage 54. Created the civil service exam? Pendleton Civil Service Act 55. Federal Law that attempted to regulate the activities of big businesses? Sherman Anti-trust Act