Unit 3: Industrialization, Reform, and Imperialism
Assessment in this domain focuses on key events, historical figures, and themes related to the history of the United States from the rise of big business in the late 1800s to American expansionism at the turn of the twentieth century.
Standards: SSUSH11-SSUSH14
• Students will describe the growth of business and technological change after Reconstruction.
• Students will analyze the consequences of industrialization.
• Students will identify reform movements during the Progressive Era.
• Students will explain the U.S. role in world politics at the turn of the 20th century.
EQ’s
-Explain the impact of the railroads on other industries, such as steel, and on the organization of big business.
-Describe the impact of the railroads in the development of the West; include the transcontinental railroad, and the use of Chinese labor.
-Identify John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company and the rise of trusts and monopolies.
-Describe the inventions of Thomas Edison; include the electric light bulb, motion pictures, and the phonograph, and their impact on American life.
-Describe Ellis Island, the change in immigrants’ origins to southern and eastern Europe and the impact of this change on urban America.
-Identify the American Federation of Labor and Samuel Gompers.
-Describe the growth of the western population and its impact on Native Americans with reference to Sitting Bull and Wounded Knee.
-Describe the 1894 Pullman strike as an example of industrial unrest.
-Explain Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and federal oversight of the meatpacking industry.
-Identify Jane Addams and Hull House and describe the role of women in reform movements.
-Describe the rise of Jim Crow, Plessy v. Ferguson, and the emergence of the NAACP.
-Explain Ida Tarbell’s role as a muckraker.
-Describe the significance of progressive reforms such as the initiative, recall, and referendum; direct election of senators; reform of labor laws; and efforts to improve living conditions for the poor in cities.
-Describe the conservation movement and the development of national parks and forests; include the role of Theodore Roosevelt
-Explain the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and anti-Asian immigration sentiment on the west coast.
-Describe the Spanish-American War, the war in the Philippines, and the debate over American expansionism.
-Explain U.S. involvement in Latin America, as reflected by the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine and the creation of the Panama Canal.
Key Terms
Post-Reconstruction
1)Transcontinental Railroad
2)Standard Oil Company
3)Electric Light Bulb
4)Phonograph
5)American Federation of Labor
6)Battle of Wounded Knee
7)Pullman Strike
8)Jim Crow Laws
9)Plessy v Furguson
10)NAACP
Progressive Era
11)Progressive Era
12)Muckraker
13)The Jungle
14)History of the Standard Oil Company
15)Pure Food and Drug Act (626)
16)Meat Inspection Act (626)
17)Social Gospel Movement
18)Hull House
19)Initiative
20)Recall
21)Referendum
22)16th Amendment
23)17th Amendment
24)18th Amendment
25)Prohibition
26)Clayton Antitrust Act
27)Federal Trade Commission
28)Federal Reserve System
Immigration and Imperialism
29)Ellis Island
30)Nativism
31)Chinese Exclusion Act
32)Gentleman’s Agreement
33)Yellow Journalism
34)Spanish American War
35)Treaty of Paris 1898
36)Roosevelt Corollary
37)Panama Canal
Key People
1)John D Rockefeller
2)Andrew Carnegie
3)Thomas Edison
4)Samuel Gompers
5)General Custer
6)Chief Sitting Bull
7)W.E.B. Du Bois
8)Upton Sinclair
9)Ida Tarbell
10)Jacob Riis
11)Jane Addams
12)President Theodore Roosevelt
13)President William Taft
14)President Woodrow Wilson