Unit 5: Industrialization and Urbanization

Skills

Students will be able to...

• Students will examine demographic trends associated with urbanization and immigration between 1840 and 1920, including push-pull factors regarding Irish immigration and immigration from southern and eastern Europe.

• Students will examine problems faced by farmers between 1870 and 1900 and examine the goals and achievements of the Grange Movement and the Populist Party.

• Students will examine the attempts of workers to unionize from 1870 to 1920 in response to industrial working conditions, including the Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor, the American Railway Union, the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union, and the Industrial Workers of the World, considering actions taken by the unions and the responses to these actions.

• Students will examine Progressive Era reforms, such as the 16th and 17th amendments (1913) and the establishment of the Federal Reserve System (1913).

• Students will examine the efforts of the woman’s suffrage movement after 1900, leading to ratification of the 19th amendment (1920).

• Students will trace the temperance and prohibition movements leading to the ratification of the 18th amendment (1919).

• Students will trace reform efforts by individuals and the consequences of those efforts, including:

  • Jane Addams and Hull House

  • Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives

  • New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt and the Tenement Reform Commission

  • Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and the Meat Inspection Act

  • Margaret Sanger and birth control

  • Ida Tarbell’s The History of the Standard Oil Company

  • Ida Wells and her writings about lynching of African Americans

  • Booker T. Washington’s contributions to education, including the creation of Tuskegee Institute

Formative Tasks

The Gilded Age - Gilder Lehrman: Anti-Corporate cartoons and activity comparing captains of industry and evaluates worker issues and the effectiveness of cartoons

Building Carnegie Hall - Primary Source by A. Carnegie, Gilder Lehrman: Asks students to consider if they should admire Carnegie as a benevolent industrialist or consider his contributions “conscience” money?

MONOPOLY  (pg. 60-67) Three trust cases in brief and activity that asks students to evaluate the outcomes.

1877 Railroad Strike - Beyond the Bubble source reliability activity

Riis' Urban Photography - Beyond the Bubble: Source reliability activity

Women's Rights - Beyond the Bubble: source analysis. Determining chronology.

Plessy vs. Ferguson court decision Click on link, go to page 304A Nation of Immigrants - Jewish Immigration to the US (VIDEO - Gilder Lehrman) Coming to America - Ellis Island and New York City - Gilder Lehrman essay on impact of Ellis Island and NYC past and presentThe video below is 35 minutes and discusses the Urbanization and Industrialization growth of the United States.

The video below shows a ride up the Hudson from Haverstraw Bay to Newburgh in 1903. Steam boats, steam locomotives and clipper ships will be visible. In addition, the Stony Point Battlefield and West Point are also shown. Note - Bear Mountain Park and the Bridge have not yet been built. The Emeline steam boat - long stored in Haverstraw - is visible as you come into Newburgh. Also note that the Newburgh waterfront looks almost identical to present day.

LOC - Rise of Industrial America teaching materials: Interviews with people who lived in industrial cities. Also includes population maps.