Learning Goal 1: I will be able to:
-Define Second Industrial Revolution
-Define Bessemer Process and list 5 reasons why the Bessemer Process was so important.
-List six new inventions or innovations that came about during the Second Industrial Revolution
-Identify and explain the importance of Henry Bessemer, Edwin Drake, Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford and the Wright Brothers
-List some modern day inventions that changed the world similar to those during the 2nd Industrial Revolution
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Learning Goal 2 – I will be able to:
-Define corporation, stock, bond, mutual fund, dividend, investment, and 401k
-Summarize and explain how the above terms work and how they are relevant today and to me personally.
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Learning Goal 3 – I will be able to:
-Identify Andrew Carnegie, his big business, and explain why he was important to the Second IR
-Identify John Rockefeller, his big business, and explain why he was important to the Second IR.
-Define vertical and horizontal integration and explain why each was used
-Define trust and explain the impact of decreased competition
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Learning Goal 4 – I will be able to
-Define Social Darwinism, Philanthropy, Monopoly, and Sherman Antitrust Act
-List and explain the two reasons some supported Big Business and their practices
-List and explain two reasons some opposed Big Business and their practices
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Learning Goal 5 – I will be able to:
-Identify Frederick Taylor and explain the impact his book had on working conditions
-Define union and explain how they came about
-Identify Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor, and their importance
-Identify Terence Powderly and Samuel Gompers and explain their importance
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Learning Goal 6 – I will be able to
-Define strike
-Identify 3 major strikes of the late 1800s, compare each, and explain their impact
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Learning Goal 7 – I will be able to:
-Define Old Immigrants and New Immigrants
-Describe the typical trip across the Atlantic and Pacific for most immigrants
-Identify and explain the importance of Ellis Island and Angel Island
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Learning Goal 8 – I will be able to:
-List and explain three groups who typically supported immigration, two groups who opposed, and explain why.
-Identify and explain the significance of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
-Define ethnic neighborhood, benevolent society, and tenement, and explain their importance
-List and explain three major problems immigrants faced
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Learning Goal 9 – I will be able to:
-List and explain the importance of new technological advancements that changed cities and new ways life was more modern
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Learning Goal 10 – I will be able to:
-Define Progressives & muckrakers and explain why they were important
-Identify Jacob Riis and Upton Sinclair and explain the contributions of each
-Compare and contrast “How the Other Half Lives” and “The Jungle.”
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Learning Goal 11 – I will be able to:
-Cite and explain the importance of examples of political corruption during the Gilded Age (Spoils System, political machines, political bosses, Tammany Hall)
-Identify seven voting problems during the Progressive Era and six solutions proposed to fix them (16th Amendment, 17th Amendment, Direct Primary, Initiative, Referendum, Recall, Wisconsin Plan)
-Summarize why these reforms were put in place
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Learning Goal 12 – I will be able to:
-Cite examples of problems workers faced during the Progressive Era (children’s employment, long hours, low wages, injuries on the job, company towns, scrip)
-Explain the solutions that were attempted
-Summarize the response of the US Supreme Court to worker’s rights laws and how it affected union membership
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Learning Goal 13 – I will be able to:
-Summarize why women and minorities were working so hard to bring changes
-Define temperance and explain why women fought so hard for it
-Summarize the 18th Amendment and explain why it was important
-Define suffrage and summarize how women finally won the right to vote
-Identify and explain the importance of Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, and W.E.B. DuBois
-Explain the importance of the NAACP
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Learning Goal 14 – I will be able to:
-Analyze how Teddy Roosevelt “bridged the gap” between business and labor.
-List the actions Roosevelt took against business.
-Analyze how Wilson regulated Big Business.
-Compare the administrations of Roosevelt, Taft, & Wilson in regards to their reforms
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