January 20, 2015
Aim: How did industrialization affect
marginalized groups?
• Do Now: Review: what was the Gilded Age?
Key Concept 6.2
• Key Concept 6.2 “The emergence of an
industrial culture in the United States led to
both greater opportunities for, and restrictions
on, immigrants, minorities, and women.”
– Page 62 of the Curriculum Framework
Makeup of Cities
• Factories and businesses
– Work for immigrants, unskilled laborers
• Cultures
– Autonomy v. assimilation
• Cities were segregated by race and ethnicity
– “ghettos”
• Class
– Low-income individuals lived in tenements
Unequal Power in Cities
• Political machines
– Jobs, food, and $$ in exchange for political
support, Tammany Hall (NYC, Irish)
• Women’s Clubs
– National American Woman Suffrage Association
• Carrie Chapman Catt
• Settlement Houses
– Hull House, Jane Addams, helped immigrants
adjust
U.S. Response to Native Americans
• Dawes Act : assimilate Native Americans for money
and land
• Sand Creek Massacre
• Little Big Horn (Custer’s Last Stand)
• Battle of Wounded Knee (1890) – 300 Natives killed
in South Dakota by U.S. troops
Women and Industrialization
• Women achieved social and economic
independence.
– Smaller families.
– Delayed marriages.
Typists, 1902
What were the benefits and drawbacks of
industrialization on marginalized groups? Make
a T Chart
Pros
Cons
“The emergence of an industrial culture
led to great opportunities for women,
minorities, and immigrants.”
• Support or refute this statement.
• Use at least two pieces of evidence in your
answer.