1. Industrialization and Urbanization



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Rebuilding a Nation

C. Rebuilding a Nation (ca. 1877–ca. 1914)


1. Industrialization and Urbanization

a. Evaluate the impact of new inventions and technologies of the late nineteenth century

b. Identify and evaluate the influences on business and industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

c. Identify labor and workforce issues of the late nineteenth century, including perspectives of owners/managers

and Social Darwinists

d. Explain the challenges and contributions of immigrants of the late nineteenth century

e. Explain the causes and impact of urbanization in the late nineteenth century

f. Compare and contrast the experiences of African Americans in various U.S. regions in the late nineteenth

century

g. Identify and evaluate the influences on the development of the American West



h. Analyze significant events for Native American Indian tribes, and their responses to those events, in the late

nineteenth century


C. Rebuilding a Nation (ca. 1877–ca. 1914)
2. Increasing Influence and Challenges

a. Identify and explain significant issues and components of the Populist movement and their impacts

b. Explain the origins and accomplishments of the Progressive movement

c. Analyze the efforts to achieve women’s suffrage in the early twentieth century

d. Evaluate, take, and defend positions on the various U.S. foreign policies in the late nineteenth and early

twentieth centuries

e. Analyze the causes and consequences of the Spanish-American War

f. Identify and evaluate the factors that influenced U.S. imperialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth



centuries and the ensuing debate over imperialism
Challenges to American Farmers

What you need to know...

  • You will need to know the causes of the economic challenges faced by American

  • You will need to know the strategies used by farmers to address the economic challenges of the late 1800s.

Terms to know include, but are not limited to: agricultural surplus, business monopolies, Cross of Gold, Farmers Alliance, government regulation of food and drugs, Grange, Granger laws, Homestead Act (1862), industrialization, Interstate Commerce Act (1887), populism, urbanization.

Industrial Revolution

What you need to know...

  • You will need to know the social and/or political causes and/or conditions in government, society, and the economy that contributed to the Second Industrial Revolution.

  • You will need to know the significance of events, movements, and people in American society prior to and/or during the Second Industrial Revolution.

  • You will need to know the human experience during the Second Industrial Revolution.

  • You will need to know the new industries and/or economic innovations of the Second Industrial Revolution and their impact on American economy and society.

  • You will need to know the significant inventors of the Second Industrial Revolution.

  • You will need to know the experiences of Northern European, Southern European, and Asian immigrants during the Second Industrial Revolution.

  • You will need to know the impact of social change and reform movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  • You will need to know the origin, course, and/or consequences of the labor movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  • Items assessing the Second Industrial Revolution may include inventions, industrial developments, entrepreneurs, monopolies, government policies, and labor movements.

  • Items assessing the human experience during the Second Industrial Revolution may include the impact of massive immigration, the increase of urbanization, the rise of the political machine, and the influence of social reform movements on American society.

  • You will need to know the impact of key events and peoples in Florida history related to the Second Industrial Revolution.

Terms to know include, but are not limited to: African-American inventors, American Federation of Labor, Bessemer process, child labor, Chinese Exclusion Act, Everglades, Gentlemen’s Agreement, government regulation, Great Migration, Haymarket Riot (1886), Henry Flagler, Homestead Strike (1892), Ida Tarbell, immigration, innovation, Knights of Labor, labor unions, market economy, muckrakers, National Woman Suffrage Association, planned economy, political machines, Pullman Strike (1894), railroads, settlement houses, Sherman Antitrust Act (1890), Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1894), Social Darwinism, Social Gospel movement, suffrage movement, transportation, urbanization, urban centers.

Example 1

The common purpose of these legislative acts were to





A. protect the nation’s natural resources

B. improve conditions for recent immigrants to the United

C. advance the growth of big business

D. promote the general welfare of the American public

Example 2

Until the early 20th century, few restrictions on immigration to the United States existed primarily because



A.  industry needed an increasing supply of labor

B.  immigration totals had always been relatively low

C.  labor unions had always favored unrestricted immigration

D.  the Supreme Court had ruled that Congress could not restrict immigration

Example 3

The cartoon illustrates President Theodore Roosevelt’s attempt to




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