Essential Historical Questions                                &                                                   Big Ideas

             Unit Assessments

What new opportunities and risks did industrialization bring, and how did it reshape American society?

How did conditions change for industrial workers in the late nineteenth century, and why?

What factors accounted for the different expectations and experiences of immigrants in this era?

Why did farmers and industrial workers cooperate, and what political objectives did they achieve?

How did the changes wrought by industrialization shape Americans’ identities, beliefs, and culture?

How did new consumer practices, arising from industrialization, reshape Americans’ gender, class, and race relationships?

What changes in American society precipitated the rise of national parks and monuments?

How did the ideas of scientists and social scientist reflect events they saw happening around them?

No more than a two page essay.

Oral Presentation

Propaganda poster

Sale pitch of invention with all possible impacts (pros and cons)

Pre-write and final essay

                                            Content Standards

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.

11.2.1

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.

11.2.2

1. 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.

11.2.3

1.  Trace the effect of the Americanization movement. 

11.2.4
Analyze the effect of urban political machines and responses to them by immigrants and middle-class reformers.

1. 11.2.7
   Analyze the similarities and differences between the ideologies of Social Darwinism and Social Gospel (e.g., using biographies of William Graham Sumner, Billy Sunday, Dwight L. Moody). 

1.         11.2.5
    Discuss corporate mergers that produced trusts and cartels and the economic and political policies of industrial leaders.
   
   

11.2.8
Examine the effect of political programs and activities of Populists.

          11.2.6
 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. 

1. 11.2.9
   Understand the effect of political programs and activities of the Progressives (e.g., federal regulation of railroad transport, Children's Bureau, the Sixteenth Amendment, Theodore Roosevelt, Hiram Johnson).