Unit 1: United States Involvement at Home and Abroad
Unit Overview: United States Involvement at Home and Abroad
This unit covers the American Industrial Revolution from the post-Civil War era to the eve of WWI. Some important themes covered in this unit:
Growth and expansion of US Industry
Manifest Destiny and settlement of US West
Immigration and urbanization of US
Labor and Populist movements
Spanish-American War and Imperialism
European nationalism and militarism at turn of the century
Unit Essay: Industrial America
In order to complete this project you must write an essay on the following topic:
Industrial America:
By 1900 America had soared ahead of Great Britain and Germany to become the world's number one industrial power, as the transcontinental railroad, mechanized farming, and massive immigration at the end of the 19th century had super-heated its economy. America also played a decisive role in the allied victory in WWI, and by 1919 was recognized as one of the most powerful nations on earth...a long way from the colonial days and our early history. By the early twentieth century, America was industrial, politically and economically stable, and rapidly becoming the most powerful nation on earth.
Using the knowledge of this era that you have gained from your lessons, write an essay of 600 words or more explaining how the Industrial Revolution of the late 19th century had transformed America politically, economically, and socially.
Helpful Links for this essay:
Urbanization in the late 19th Century
Ford workers assembling the Model T "on the line".
US History Foundations B Unit 1 Key Terms
For this project you must define the terms listed below and explain each term's significance to the unit/era being studied. Your definition should be 2-3 sentences long and may be copied and pasted from a source like Wikipedia, but the significance of the term must be in your own words and based on your own understanding. To fill out a term's significance, ask yourself, "Why is this item included in my study of this unit? Why is this term in a history book?" The answer to this question is your term's significance.
Unit 1 Key Terms:
Eli Whitney
Sherman Antitrust Act
Social Gospel
Berlin Conference (1884)
Homestead Act
Social Darwinism
muckrakers
Triple Entente/Triple Alliance
Transcontinental Railroad
American Federation of Labor
populism
militarism
US Steel
Interstate Commerce Act
Spanish-American War
Roosevelt Corollary
Gilded Age
Pullman Strike
Dollar Diplomacy
nationalism
Below is an example of a key term done with the proper format:
William the Conqueror: William I (c. 1028[2] – 9 September 1087), also known as William the Conqueror (Guillaume le Conquérant), was the first Norman King of England from Christmas 1066 until his death. He was also Duke of Normandy from 3 July 1035 until his death, under the name William II. Before his conquest of England, he was known as William the Bastard because of the illegitimacy of his birth.To press his claim to the English crown, William invaded England in 1066, leading an army of Normans, Bretons, Flemings, and Frenchmen (from Paris andÎle-de-France) to victory over the English forces of King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings, and suppressed subsequent English revolts in what has become known as the Norman Conquest.[3] (I copied and pasted this definition from Wikipedia)
Significance: William the Conqueror is significant because his conquest of England created the first nation state in Europe. His rearrangement of English feudal territories to give himself dramatically more power than the the barons and nobles around him caused him to be the most powerful monarch in Europe and eventually led to the rise of other nation states over the next few centuries. (These are my words based on my knowledge of English and European history.)
