Industrialization, Urbanization, Immigration, and Progressive Reform

HSS Framework: Industrialization, Urbanization, Immigration, and Progressive Reform

Inquiry Questions:

• How did America’s economy, industries, and population grow after the Civil War?

• How did the federal government impact the country’s growth in the years following the Civil War?

• Who came to the United States at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century? Why did they come? What was their experience like when they arrived?

• Why did women want the right to vote and how did they convince men to grant it to them?

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