Standards for Unit 1

2.1 Evaluate the Social Political and Economic Antagonism that occured between cultural and ethnic groups as a result of western expansion

-push and pull factors

-Manifest Destiny

-Conflicts between Native Americans and Settlers and the outcome

-Ghost Dance

-Dawes Act

-Assimilation

-"A Century of Dishonor"-Helen Hunt Jackson

-Turner/Frontier Thesis

-Causes and effects of conflict between white settlers and different Minorities (Mexican Ams., Chinese, African Americans, Women)

-Los Gorras Blancas

2.2 Describe the economic changes that came about on the western frontier as a result if the expansion of the railroad, cattle kingdom, and farming

-Homestead Act

-TCRR and its' effects

-Chinese and other immigrants building the railroad

-Cattle Industry

-End of the Open Range/Range Wars

2.3 Describe the causes of the political, social, and economic problems encountered by farmers

-Farmer's Problems and Solutions

-Granger Movement 

-Farmer's Alliance

-Monopolies

-New Inventions (barbed wire, steel plow)

-Bimetalism

-Populist/People's Party

-William Jennings Bryan "Cross of Gold"

2.4 Examine the effect of the government's laissez-faire policy, innovations in technology and transportation, and changes in business organization that led to the growth of an industrial economy

-vertical and horizontal integration

-Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan

-"Wealth" by Carnegie

-Captains of Industry v Robber Barons

-lassiz-faire

-Bessemer process, electricity, telegraph, telephone, railroads, mass production, assembly line

-industrialization led to the growth of urbanization

2.5 Illustrate the phases, geographic origins, and motivations behind mass immigration and explain how these factors accelerated urbanization

-push and pull factors

-where did immigrants originate

-old v new immigrants

-Ellis and Angel Islands

-contribution to  urbanization

2.6 Describe the challenges associated with immigration, urbanization, and rapid industrialization and evaluate the governement's response

-Boss Tweed and Thomas Nast

-political machines

-social darwinism

-effects of industrialization

-tenements, overcrowding, unsanitary conditions,

-immigration policiies

-settlement houses (Jane Addams, Florence Kelley)

-monopolies and trust

-Trustbusting, Sherman and Clayton Anti-Trust Act

2.7 Examine the social, political, and economic struggles of a growing labor force that resulted in the formation of labor unions and evaluate their attempts to improve working conditions

-Child labor, wages, hours, dangerous conditions, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, standard of living

-Labor Leader- Terence Powderly (KL), Samuel Gompers (AFL), Eugene Debs and Mother Jones (IWW)

-causes and effects of major strikes and riots (Great Railroad Strike, Haymarket Square Riot, Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike)

2.8 Identify the goals of Progressivism; describe the influence of muckrakers, political leaders, intellectuals; and evaluate the movements successes and failures

-goals of the progressive movement

-goals and tactics of Muckrakers (Thomas Nast, Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, Ida B. Wells)

- "The Jungle" "How the Other Half Lives" "The History of Standard Oil" "Cities"-Steffens "Twenty Years at Hull House"

-Pendleton Civil Service Act, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, 16-19 Amendments

-voting and election reforms (recall, referendum, initative, Australian Ballot)

-Women's Suffrage movement (pro v anti suffragists)

-African American Leaders- W.E.B. DuBois, Washington, Wells, Terrell

-Jim Crow Laws

-Plessy v Ferguson

-African American Activist- Monroe Trotter, Ida B Wells, Maru Mcleod Bethune, Robert Abbot, Madame CJ Walker

-Progressive Agenda of Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson

-Election of 1912 (Bull Moose Party)