Unit 7 Industrialization and Reform

Factors of Industrialization

• Student can identify the economic factors that brought about rapid industrialization and urbanization.

• Student understands the:

  • racial, ethnic, and religious groups that settled in the U.S.

  • reasons for immigration

  • War of 1812 effects, including economic effects

Free Enterprise and Innovation

• Student can describe the characteristics and the benefits of the U.S. free enterprise system through 1877.

• Student understands the:

  • free enterprise system of economics

  • minimal government regulation

  • taxation

  • property rights

  • technological and scientific innovations: steamboat, cotton gin, telegraph, and interchangeable parts

  • technological innovations changed the way goods were manufactured and distributed, nationally and internationally

  • technological innovations brought about economic growth

  • development of the factory system

  • construction of the Transcontinental Railroad

Effects of Industrialization

• Student can identify examples of how industrialization changed life in the U.S.

• Student understands the:

  • reasons for the spread of slavery

  • urbanization contributed to conflicts resulting from differences in religion, social class, and political beliefs

  • scientific discoveries and technological innovations that have influenced daily life

Causes of the Reform Movements

• Student can describe religious influences on social movements: second Great Awakening.

• Student understands:

  • urbanization contributed to conflicts resulting from differences in religion, social class, and political beliefs

Reform Movements

• Student can explain the impact of reform movements.

  • educational reform

  • temperance

  • the women's rights movement

  • prison reform

  • labor reform movement

  • care of the disabled

• Student understands the:

  • historical development of the abolitionist movement

  • contributions of significant political and social leaders: Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

American Culture

• Student can identify examples of American art, music, and literature that reflect society in different eras.

  • Hudson River School artists

  • transcendental literature

• Student understands the:

  • relationship between fine arts and continuity and change in the American way of life