Unit I: Industrialization, Urbanization, and Progressivism (13, 15, 18)
6.1.1 Factors in the American Industrial Revolution – Analyze the factors that enabled the United States to become a major industrial power, including:
gains from trade
organizational “revolution” (e.g., development of corporations and labor organizations)
advantages of physical geography
increase in labor through immigration and migration
economic polices of government and industrial leaders (including Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller)
technological advances
6.1.2 Labor’s Response to Industrial Growth – Evaluate the different responses of labor to industrial change including:
development of organized labor, including the Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor, and the United Mine Workers
southern and western farmers’ reactions, including the growth of populism and the populist movement (e.g., Farmers Alliance, Grange, Platform of the Populist Party, Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” speech)
6.1.3 Urbanization – Analyze the changing urban and rural landscape by examining:
the location and expansion of major urban centers
the growth of cities linked by industry and trade
the development of cities divided by race, ethnicity, and class
resulting tensions among and within groups
different perspectives about immigrant experiences in the urban setting
6.1.4 Population Changes – Use census data from 1790-1940 to describe changes in the composition, distribution, and density of the American population and analyze their causes, including immigration, the Great Migration, and urbanization.
6.3.1 Social Issues – Describe at least three significant problems or issues created by America’s industrial and urban transformation between 1895 and 1930 (e.g., urban and rural poverty and blight, child labor, immigration, political corruption, public health, poor working conditions, and monopolies).
6.3.2 Causes and Consequences of Progressive Reform – Analyze the causes, consequences, and limitations of Progressive reform in the following areas:
major changes in the Constitution, including 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments
new regulatory legislation (e.g., Pure Food and Drug Act, Sherman and Clayton Anti-Trust Acts)
the Supreme Court’s role in supporting or slowing reform
role of reform organizations, movements and individuals in promoting change (e.g., Women’s Christian Temperance Union, settlement house movement, conservation movement, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, Eugene Debs, W.E.B. DuBois, Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell)
efforts to expand and restrict the practices of democracy as reflected in post-Civil War struggles of African Americans and immigrants
6.3.3 Women’s Suffrage – Analyze the successes and failures of efforts to expand women’s rights, including the work of important leaders
Susan B. Anthony,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Carrie Chapman Catt
Lucy Burns
Alice Paul
and the eventual ratification of the 19th Amendment.