Unit 6
The Rise of Big Business and the Gilded Age, 1865-1898
February 9
The Rise of Big Business
American History, pgs. 473-480
Watch: The Industrial Economy from Crash Course and answer the
questions. These are found on my website. Bring answers to class.
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Class Activity
Mansel Blackford, “American Manufacturing, 1850-1930: A Business
History Approach” The Magazine of American History (2010)
February 11
The Critics of Capitalism
American History, pgs. 480-489
Class Activity
Edward Bellamy, “An Industrial Utopia”, Looking Backward (1888) &
Andrew Carnegie-Gospel of the Wealth
February 13
The Rise of Organized Labor
American History, pgs. 489-497
Class Simulation
Please read the article titled “The Pullman Strike of 1894” before you
come to class. This will give you an overview of the strike, its impact
on labor and management, and how the US government reacted to end
the strike.
February 15
YBTJ
Josiah Strong, “Anglo-Saxon Supremacy” (1885) & Woodrow Wilson,
“The Literacy Test: An ‘Un-American’ Restriction of Immigration?”
(1917)
February 18
The Gilded Age
American History, pgs. 513 (Crime and Violence)-515 (The Rise of
Mass Consumption) & 531-535 (The Agrarian Revolt)
Watch: The Gilded Age Politics from Crash Course and answer the
questions. These are found on my website. Bring answers to class.
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Read: Mark Twain, The Gilded Age (1873)
Class Activity
The Gilded Age Simulation
February 20
Immigration and Urbanization
American History, pgs. 502-526
Watch: Growth, Cities, and Immigration from Crash Course and answer
the questions. These are found on my website. Bring answers to class.
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Read: David Goldfield, “Stages of American Urbanization” The
Magazine of American History (1990)
February 22
Long Essay #1
February 24
Settling the America West
American History, pgs. 449 (Migration from the East)-460 & 466-469
Watch: Westward Expansion from Crash Course and answer the
questions. These are found on my website. Bring answers to class.
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Class Activity
Farming Simulation
February 26
The Clash of Cultures
American History, pgs. 460-465 (The Dawes Act)
March 1
Long Essay #2
March 2
The Closing of the American West
American History, pgs. 465-469
March 3
Primary Source Analysis
Bring this assignment to me before or after you take the practice ACT.
March 5
Populism and the Agrarian Revolt
American History, pgs. 535-546
Vocabulary
Henry Ford
"Taylorism"
Thomas Alva Edison
Andrew Carnegie
J. Pierpont Morgan
horizontal integration
vertical integration
John D. Rockefeller
pool
trust
Social Darwinism
Herbert Spenser
Horatio Alger
"Gospel of Wealth"
Henry George
National Labor Union
scabs
"yellow-dog" contract
blacklisting
open shop
closed shop
injunction
Knights of Labor
Terence V. Powderly
American Federation of Labor [AFL]
Samuel Gompers
Homestead Steel Strike (1892)
Pullman Strike (1894)
Eugene V. Debs
nativism
Ellis Island
Angel Island
"Melting Pot"
Jacob Riis
“Dumbbell" tenement
Tammany Hall, NYC
Thomas Nast
Gilded Age
Greenback Party
Stalwarts
Half Breeds
Mugwumps
Pendleton Act (1883)
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Munn v. Illinois (1877)
Wabash, St. Louis, & Pacific Railway Co. v.
Illinois (1886)
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
McKinley Tariff of 1890
National Grange
Farmers' Alliance
Populist [Peoples'] Party
Panic of 1893
Coxey's Army
"Crime of '73"
William Jennings Bryan
"Cross of Gold" speech
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
bimetallism
Gold-Bugs
Silver-Bugs
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Frederick Jackson Turner
Exodusters
Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Helen Hunt Jackson