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Unit 6 Overview
The Gilded Age and the first years of the twentieth century were a time of great social change and economic growth in the United States. Roughly spanning the years between Reconstruction and the dawn of the new century, the Gilded Age saw rapid industrialization, urbanization, the construction of great transcontinental railroads, innovations in science and technology, and the rise of big business. Afterward, the first years of the new century that followed were dominated by progressivism, a forward-looking political movement that attempted to redress some of the ills that had arisen during the Gilded Age. Progressives passed legislation to rein in big business, combat corruption, free the government from special interests, and protect the rights of consumers, workers, immigrants, and the poor.
Unit 6 Georgia Standards
SSUSH11 Examine connections between the rise of big business, the growth of labor unions, and technological innovations.
a. Explain the effects of railroads on other industries, including steel and oil.
b. Examine the significance of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie in the rise of trusts and monopolies.
c. Examine the influence of key inventions on U.S. infrastructure, including but not limited to the telegraph, telephone, and electric light bulb.
d. Describe Ellis and Angel Islands, the change in immigrants’ origins and their influence on the economy, politics, and culture of the United States.
e. Discuss the origins, growth, influence, and tactics of labor unions including the American Federation of Labor.
SSUSH12 Evaluate how westward expansion impacted the Plains Indians and fulfilled Manifest Destiny.
a. Examine the construction of the transcontinental railroad including the use of immigrant labor.
b. Evaluate how the growth of the western population and innovations in farming and ranching impacted Plains Indians.
c. Explain the Plains Indians’ resistance to western expansion of the United States and the consequences of their resistance.
SSUSH13 Evaluate efforts to reform American society and politics in the Progressive Era.
a. Describe the influence of muckrakers on affecting change by bringing attention to social problems.
b. Examine and explain the roles of women in reform movements.
c. Connect the decision of Plessy v. Ferguson to the expansion of Jim Crow laws and the formation of the NAACP.
d. Describe Progressive legislative actions including empowerment of the voter, labor laws, and the conservation movement.
Unit 6 Essential Questions
What motivated the United States to exert control over Native American lands in the west?
How did federal government policies affect the lives of Native Americans in the 19th century?
How did new inventions and innovations impact the economy of the west?
How did new inventions and innovations encourage industrial growth?
What was the role of the federal government in encouraging the growth and regulating the practices of big business?
Why was the period of the late 1800s nicknamed the "Gilded Age" and the "Era of Good Stealings"?
Why did meaningful reform prove difficult to accomplish during the Gilded Age?
How and why were African Americans denied the full rights guaranteed to them under the post-Civil War amendments?
How did African American leaders respond to the challenges of racial discrimination?
How did new cultural and intellectual movements both buttress and challenge the social order of the Gilded Age?
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