AH2

Expectations for Learning

10. Analyze how the rise of corporations, heavy industry, mechanized farming and technological innovations transformed the American economy from an agrarian to an increasingly urban industrial society.

11. Explain the major social and economic effects of industrialization and the influence of the growth of organized labor following Reconstruction in the United States.

12. Analyze and evaluate how immigration, internal migration and urbanization transformed American life.

Content Standards - 2018 Revision

• 1. The rise of corporations, heavy industry, mechanized farming and technological innovations transformed the American economy from an agrarian to an increasingly urban industrial society.

  2. The rise of industrialization led to a rapidly expanding workforce. Labor organizations grew amidst unregulated working conditions, laissez-faire policies toward big business, and violence toward supporters of organized labor.

  3. Immigration, internal migration and urbanization transformed American life.

2.6 - New Ways of Life

2.6 Study Guide