United States History
Indianapolis Public Schools
2008-2009
Benchmark 1
7-10 October 2008
Core standard 1: Industrialization, Individuals, and the Economy
Explain the factors that were necessary for industrialization in the United States. Explain the effects that industrialization had on immigration, urbanization, labor, and government regulation
Core standard 2: Reform Movements
Connect the causes, ideas, events, achievements, and consequences of reform movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the Progressive Movement
Core standard 3: Expanding Global Influence and World War I
Explain how the United states increased it role in global affairs, culminating with its emergence as a major global power at the end of World War I
U.S. History
First Benchmark Period
UNIT NAME: America Industrializes and Becomes A World Power
Core Standards 1, 2, 3
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INDICATOR
USH 2.1
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CONTENT/CONCEPT
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CRITICAL VOCABULARY
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SKILLS
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ASSESSMENTS
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Describe economic developments that transformed the United States into a major industrial power and identify the factors necessary for industrialization. (Economics)
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Concepts
Factors leading to rapid industrialization
Basic Industries (railroads, steel, coal, textiles)
The Corporation
Sources of Capital
Venture Capital
Big Business Models
Vertical Consolidation
Horizontal Consolidation
Transcontinental Railroad
Standard Gage Tracks
Steel Rails
Unionization
Trust
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Describe
Transform
Industrial Power
Economic Developments
Fundamental
Industrialization
Capital
Entrepreneur
Robber Barron
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Analyze and categorize historical events related to the post-Civil War industrialization of the United States.
Synthesize a summary of causes for given historical effects
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USH.2.1
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CONTENT/CONCEPT
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CRITICAL VOCABULARY
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SKILLS
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ASSESSMENTS
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Describe economic developments that transformed the United States into a major industrial power and identify the factors necessary for industrialization. (Economics) (CONTINUED)
Video:
Inventions and Industry (GL)
EARLY INDUSTRIAL AMERICA (GL)
The Birth of the Industrial Revolution (GL)
The Industrial Revolution Comes to America (GL)
Oil Industry (GL)
John D. Rockefeller (GL)
Big Business: Rockefeller & Carnegie (GL)
The Doctor Is In (Union Pacific Railroad) (GL)
Early American Capitalism: Monopolies, Unions, and the Great Depression (GL)
How We Lived (GL)
Images:
Cartoon, economic influence of Standard Oil.
John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Refinery.
John Davison Rockefeller (1839-1937).
A Union Pacific sleeping car in the 1880s.
U.P. Railroad station, Sherman, Wyoming Territory.
Ad for opening transcontinental RR, May 10, 1869.
Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877).
E.H. Harriman, headed Southern Pacific railroad.
Audio:
The Industrial Revolution: The Face of U.S. Industrialization
Writing Prompts:
Articles:
Vanderbilt, Cornelius (1794-1877)
Morgan, John Pierpont, Jr.
Harriman, Edward Henry
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
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People/Places/Things
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil
Union Pacific RR
Vanderbilts
Harrimans
J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan & Co.
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INDICATOR
USH 2.2
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CONTENT/CONCEPT
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CRITICAL VOCABULARY
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SKILLS
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ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all teachers in a given course will agree to administer
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Identify key ideas, movements and inventions and explain their impact on rural communities and urban communities in the United States. (Economics, Sociology)
Video:
The Eiffel Tower (Making use of Otis' invention) (GL)
George Washington Carver (GL)
Biosphere: George Washington Carver (GL)
Introduction: The Origin of the Vitamin (GL)
John Deere Lawn Mowers
Pioneers
Agriculture in the Grassland Biomes
The Second Industrial Revolution (GL)
Thomas Alva Edison: Scientist and Inventor (GL)
Thomas Edison: A Lifetime of Achievements
Ushering in the Age of Electricity
Industrial Age: Technological Change in Early America
Labor Organizations
Finally a Statesman (Gompers)
Homestead Strike 1892
The Carnegie Family Comes To America
Carnegie's Millions
The Emergence of a Sharecropping System
Memories of Sharecropping (GL)
Reconstructing the South
The Birth of the Populist Party
William Jennings Bryan: Spokesman for the Common People
William Jennings Bryan: Spokesman for the Common People
Images:
Cyrus McCormick (1809-1884),
A recreation of the first mechanical reaper.
The Alexander Graham Bell Museum, Nova Scotia.
The inventor of the telephone.
A very early telephone exchange.
The first telephone.
Telephone and electric wires in New York City.
An early telephone switchboard.
Thomas Edison with a Film Projector
Thomas Alva Edison with his first phonograph.
The invention of the incandescent lamp.
Making steel by the Bessemer process.
Samuel Gompers (1850-1924).
"The Homestead Riot."
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919).
Strikers at Homestead, Pennsylvania.
Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919).
1884 Mississippi cotton plantation.
Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918).
Lincoln, President Abraham; with Pinkerton and McClernand
Audio:
Leading Black Americans: George Washington Carver
Thomas A. Edison: "Electricity & Progress" (October 3, 1908)
Thomas Edison speaks on the future of Electricity c.1908 (Audio Only)
Samuel Gompers: "Labor's Service to Freedom" Speech
African American History: Steps Forward & Leaps Backward
Articles:
Gold Standard
Otis, Elisha Graves
Westinghouse, George
Carver, George Washington
McCormick, Cyrus Hall
Deere, John
Edison, Thomas Alva
Bessemer, Sir Henry
Knights of Labor
Gompers, Samuel
Homestead Strike
Carnegie, Andrew
Frick, Henry Clay
Haymarket Square Riot
Populism
People's Party or Populist Party
Pinkerton, Allan
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Concepts
Inventions
Physical Inventions
Managerial Inventions
Technological Progress
Price Fixing
Market Place
Organized Labor
Strike/Industrial Action
Gold Standard
Bi-metalism
People/Places/Things
Elisha Otis – Elevator
George Westinghouse— Air Brake
George Washington Carver
Agricultural Science,
New Organic-Based Products
Uses of Peanuts
Cyrus McCormick Mechanical Reaper Farm Equipment
John Deere
Farm equipment and Tractors
Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone
Thomas A. Edison
Phonograph
Moving Pictures (movies)
Electric Light Bulb
Central Power Station
(e.g. Electric Generation
Stations)
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Identify
Key Ideas
Movements,
Explain
Rural
Urban
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Identify ideas, movements, & inventions.
Identify change over time.
Categorize ideas, movements, & inventions by their impact.
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INDICATOR
USH 2.2
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CONTENT/CONCEPT
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CRITICAL VOCABULARY
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SKILLS
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ASSESSMENTS
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Henry Bessemer –
Bessemer Converter
The Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Homestead Strike
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Clay Frick
Pinkerton Agents
Haymarket Riot
Grange
Populist Movement
“Pitchfork” Ben Tillman
William Jennings Bryan
Share Cropping
Company Store
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INDICATOR
USH 2.5
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CONTENT/CONCEPT
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CRITICAL VOCABULARY
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SKILLS
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ASSESSMENTS
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Compare and contrast government attempts to regulate business and industry.
Video:
Congress Passes the 14th Amendment (GL)
The Interstate Commerce Act (GL)
Progressivism at the National Level (GL)
Regulating the Economy: The Interstate Commerce Act (GL)
Garfield's Short Term and the Pendleton Act
Civil Service Reforms & the New Deal (GL)
Images:
"The Granger Shirt," a color lithograph.
Hon. William H. Hutch (1833-1896).
"The Granger Shirt" about the Grange movement.
A caption about farmers' unions, 1871-1873.
Senator John Sherman (1823-1900).
Coal strike representatives meets with Roosevelt.
Audio:
U.S. Government: The First 200 Years: Response to Uncontrolled Business Profiteering
Articles:
Immunity
Railroads, Government Regulation of
Spoils System
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Concepts
Business
Sole Proprietor
Partnerships
Corporation
Trust
Monopoly
Vertical Consolidation
Horizontal Consolidation
Regulatory Commission
Market Share
Restraint of Trade
Restraint of Commerce
Economy of Size
Kickbacks
Substantive Due Process
People/Places/Ideas/ Things
Granger Laws
Railroad Rate Commissions
Interstate Commerce Act
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States Supreme Court
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Pendleton (Civil Service) Act
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Compare & Contrast
Regulate
Business
Industry
Restraint
Consolidate
Commerce
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Identify various state and national attempts to regulate or control business practices.
Compare various state and national attempts at business regulation.
Contrast various state and national attempts at business regulation
Explain how the US Supreme Court used the 14th Amendment and the doctrine of substantive due process to block government regulation of business.
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