Industrialization

We are shifting gears to a new unit. Over the next few weeks we will be examining the causes, course, consequences, and reactions to the rise of an industrial economy in the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

1. Review the Power Point Presentation titled "Industrialization in the US."

2. Watch the Crash Course with John Green video The Industrial Economy.

3. Using information from the video, write identifications on the following terms: robber barons, vertical integration, horizontal integration. Be sure to include a definition and at least 3 historical details for each term. Refer to your textbook as necessary.

4. Watch the Crash Course with John Green video Gilded Age Politics.

5. Using information from the video, write identifications on the following terms: Gilded Age, political machine, Grange Movement, Populism. Be sure to include a definition and at least 3 historical details for each term. Refer to your textbook as necessary.

6. Watch the Crash Course with John Green video Immigrant Cities.

7. Using information from the video, write identifications on the following terms: Homestead Act, tenements, urbanization. Be sure to include a definition and at least 3 historical details for each term. Refer to your textbook as necessary.