Unit Description: Industrialization and immigration contributed to the urbanization of America. Problems resulting from these changes sparked the Progressive movement and increased calls for reform.
Stage 1- Desired Results
Essential Questions:
Enduring Understandings
Students understand that...
Is the United States still the land of opportunity?
Should government control/regulate business?
Are labor unions still necessary?
What is the most influential invention of the late 1800's?
A diverse society can be a nation's greatest strength.
Democratic society's must balance the rights and responsibilities of individuals with the common good.
Scientific and technological developments affect people's lives, the environment and transforms societies.
Technology is a tool that can be used for collecting, creating, and presenting information.
Common Core Standards and Performance Indicators:
Themes:
MOV: Development, Movement, and Interaction of Cultures
SOC: Development and Transformation of Social Structures
TECH: Science, Technology, and Innovation
EXCH: Global Connections and Exchange
Social Studies Content Area Standards:
History of the United States and New York
Geography
Economics
Civics, Citizenship, and Government
(Standards: 1, 4, 5; Themes: MOV, SOC, CIV, ECO)
Social Studies Practices (begin on page 3)
Common Core Learning Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science,and Technical Subjects (begins on page 76)
Knowledge
Students know that...
8.2a Technological developments changed the modes of production, and access to natural resources facilitated increased industrialization. Thedemand for labor in urban industrial areas resulted in increased migration from rural areas and a rapid increase immigration to the United States.
8.2b Population density, technologies, and industry in urban areas shaped social, cultural and economic lives of people.
8.2c Increased urbanization and industrialization contributed to increasing conflicts over immigration, influenced changes in labor conditions, and led to political corruption.
8.2d In response to shifts in working conditions, laborers organized and employed a variety of strategies in an attempt to improve working conditions.
8.2e Progressive reformers sought to address political and social issues at the local, state, and federal levels of government between 1890 and 1920.
Skills
Students will be able to...
Students will compare and contrast the differences between Reconstruction under Lincoln’s plan, Johnson’s plan, and congressional (Radical) Reconstruction.
Students will examine the Reconstruction amendments (13th, 14th, and 15th) in terms of the rights and protections provided to African Americans.
Students will examine the Freedmen’s Bureau’s purpose, successes, and the extent of its success.
Students will examine the effects of the sharecropping system on African Americans.
Students will examine the reasons for the migration of African Americans to the North.
Students will examine the rise of African Americans in government.
Students will explore methods used by Southern state governments to affect the lives of African Americans, including the passage of Black Codes, poll taxes, and Jim Crow laws.
Students will explore the responses of some Southerners to the increased rights of African Americans, noting the development of organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan and White Leagues.
Students will examine the ways in which the federal government failed to follow up on its promises to freed African Americans.
Students will examine the effects of the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling.
Key Terms:
Industrialization
Urbanization
Rural
Progressive Movement
Corruption
Sweatshop
Organized Labor
Collective Bargaining
Minimum Wage
Strike
Population Density
Identify groups of people who moved into urban areas, and examine where they came from and the reasons for their migration into the cities.
Explore the immigration experience at Ellis Island.
Examine population growth of cities and the industries that encouraged this growth.
Examine the living conditions in urban areas with a focus on increasing population density and the effects that this growth had on social, cultural, and economic lives of people.
Examine Nativism and anti-immigration policies.
Explore the growth and effects of child labor and sweatshops.
Investigate the creation of political machines.
Identify the general goals of labor unions.
Investigate reformers known as Muckrakers.
Examine leaders and activists of the temperance and women's suffrage movement.
Identify federal actions to many of the problems facing the nation during the late 1800's.
Stage 2- Assessment Evidence
Summative Tasks
Formative Tasks
Transcontinental Railroad and Eerie Canal's impact on economic growth (New York State Social Studies Assessment June 2003)
Jacob Riis Photo (source reliability - Beyond the Bubble)
The Nativist Response to Immigration (DBQ Page 53)
Venn Diagram- identify the similarities and differences of labor unions.
Develop a Push And Pull Factor Poster for Immigration
Captains of Industry Activity: Students watch video and record facts about selected captains of industry
Anti Corporate cartoons (with questions - Gilder Lehrman)
Immigration cartoon: Shows impact of literacy tests given to immigrants (with questions - Gilder Lehrman)
Stage 3- Related Lessons
Lesson Plans and Content
Videos, Documents, and Resources
Promise of Liberty: Numerous primary sources in different formats leads to a Venn diagram of Ellis and Angel Islands (pages 16-22)
Fear Factories: Students read about different roles in child labor and record information. Great for groups, think, pair, share, etc (pages 27-35)
Temperance, Temperance page 75: Activity on multiple perspectives
Suffering Suffragettes: Students analyze numerous cartoons on the women's suffrage movement and determine the artist's views (page 84-86)
Weighing the Evidence: Child Labor (Interactive - Docs Teach)
Jacob Riis lesson plan (SHEG)
Mock Trial of Henry Ford: Begins on page 61 with a historical background. Continues with six documents, mixing primary and secondary, with multiple perspectives.
More info or explanation needed to locate or describe:
The Era of Modernization through the 1930's
Topics-
Reforming Government
Muckrakers
TR Talks
Progressive Era Timeline
Chinese Immigration and Exclusion Lesson Plan
Photos of immigrants entering Ellis Island (Docs Teach)
Triangle Fire film (American Experience - PBS)
Interactive timeline on Rise of Industrial America (Gilder Lehrman)
Chart showing numbers of Immigrants by year, with questions (Gilder Lehrman)
Pamphlet from the Immigration Restriction League, with questions (Gilder Lehrman)
Building Carnegie Hall: letter from Carnegie to an entrepreneur discussing his plans for construction (with questions - Gilder Lehrman)
Political cartoons illustrating Progressivism in the election of 1912. (National Archives)