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Industrialization & Immigration Learning Requirements (Plan)

100% of students will be able to answer in detail:

� How did more inventions & people affect the US?

� Why & how did immigrants come to the US?

as evidenced by 80%+ or meeting personal goal on test.

Goals (Plan)

Benchmarks

Results

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80%+ %

Vocab ?s (due Friday, Feb 26) %

Vocab Quiz (Tuesday, March 8) %

Checkpoint (Wednesday, March 9) %

Test (Friday, March 11) %

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My Industrialization & Immigration Data

Industrialization & Immigration

Daily Questions

1-9 due Friday, February 26 /38 points

10-17 due Monday, March 7 /36 points

Date Questions

Wednesday,

February 17

/6

points

RG 1-5

585-589

pp 136-137

How do the two (2) parts of the business cycle work? (boom & bust)

1. What were 3 major reasons industry grew in America from 1860-

1914?

2. What were 3 major inventions/discoveries that changed

American life the most from 1860-1914?

Thursday,

February 18

/9

points

RG 6-11

590-593

pp 138-139

What was a transcontinental railroad?

3. Who built the first transcontinental railroad (besides Native

Americans)?

Central Pacific (1 group) Union Pacific (3 groups)

4. What were 5 effects railroads had on America?

Friday,

February 19

/7

points

RG 12-16

594-597

pp 140-141

5. How did/do robber barons affect society?

6. How did/do corporations, monopolies, and trusts affect

business?

Corporations

Monopolies

(2 ways)

Trusts

(3 ways)

How did/do philanthropists affect society?

Industrialization & Immigration

Daily Questions

1-9 due Friday, February 26 /38 points

10-17 due Monday, March 7 /36 points

Date Questions

Wednesday,

February 17

/6

points

RG 1-5

585-589

pp 136-137

How do the two (2) parts of the business cycle work? (boom & bust)

1. What were 3 major reasons industry grew in America from

1860-1914?

2. What were 3 major inventions/discoveries that changed

American life the most from 1860-1914?

Thursday,

February 18

/9

points

RG 6-11

590-593

pp 138-139

What was a transcontinental railroad?

3. Who built the first transcontinental railroad (besides Native

Americans)?

Central Pacific (1 group) Union Pacific (3 groups)

4. What were 5 effects railroads had on America?

Friday,

February 19

/7

points

RG 12-16

594-597

pp 140-141

5. How did/do robber barons affect society?

6. How did/do corporations, monopolies, and trusts affect

business?

Corporations

Monopolies

(2 ways)

Trusts

(3 ways)

How did/do philanthropists affect society?

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Wed, Feb 17-

Tues, Feb 23

/6

points

7. How was the Gilded Age good and bad for America?

3 ways good

3 ways bad

Wed, Feb 24

/5 pts

pg 142

8. Write 5 adjectives that describe working conditions during the

Gilded Age.

Thurs, Feb 25

/5 pts

RG 17-23

600-603

pg 143

9. What 5 modern benefits did labor unions and strikes gain

during the Gilded Age?

Friday,

February 26

/7

points

609-613

10. How did industrialization and inventions affect the size of

cities?

11. Write 5 adjectives that describe what it was like to live in a

tenement.

How did settlement houses and political machines affect cities?

Tuesday,

March 1

/8

points

pp 144-145

12. Why did/do immigrants come to the US?

5 push factors

3 pull factors

Who were the “new immigrants” during the Gilded Age?

Wednesday,

March 2

/5

points

13. Write 5 adjectives that describe a European immigrant’s

journey to America & through Ellis Island during the Gilded

Age.

Thursday,

March 3

/10

points

RG 24-29

615-617 &

623

pp 146-147

14. How did immigrants assimilate into and affect the American

“melting pot”?

2 ways assimilated (2 ways)

How affected

15. What were 2 fears Americans had about immigrants?

16. How was a Chinese immigrant’s journey to & life in America

different from a European immigrant’s?

Journey to America

Life in America

17. Why was a Chinese immigrant’s life in America different from

a European immigrant’s?

Wed, Feb 24-

Thurs Mar 3

/6 points

18. How was the Gilded Age good and bad for America?

3 ways good

3 ways bad

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Vocabulary Quiz questions due Friday, February 26

Guidelines: No one word answers (yes/no/true/false/term)

92. business cycle – a pattern of good and bad times experienced by

businesses

a. boom (good times) – when businesses and industries grow because

people buy more and invest in business

b. bust (bad times) – when industries lay off workers, make fewer goods,

and businesses shrink or close because people don’t spend much and

don’t invest in business

93. transcontinental railroad – a railroad that spanned the entire continent

and encouraged people to settle the West and develop its economy.

94. robber baron – a businessman who became wealthy through dishonest

methods such as lying, bribing officials, making secret deals, selling fake

stock, and sabotage.

95. corporation – a business owned by investors who buy part of the

company through shares of stock.

96. monopoly – a company that wipes out its competitors and controls an

entire industry, including prices.

97. trust – a legal body created to hold stock in many companies.

Combinations of businesses that work together to reduce competition

then raise prices and their profits.

98. philanthropist – a person who gives large sums of money to charities,

universities, or public works.

99. the Gilded Age – the late 1800s in America when the wealth of a few

people (robber barons and philanthropists) masked the rest of society’s

problems like political corruption and widespread poverty.

100. sweatshops – makeshift factories in dimly lit and poorly ventilated

buildings where workers (mainly women and children) worked long hours

for low wages.

101. labor union – a group of workers who join together to negotiate

better working conditions and wages with business owners

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102. strike – stopping work to demand better working conditions and

wages

103. socialism – an economic system where work and profits are shared

because all members of society are equal owners of all businesses

104. urbanization – growth of cities because of industrial jobs and

improved transportation

105. tenement – an apartment house that is run-down and overcrowded

106. slum – neighborhood of overcrowded and dangerous tenements

107. settlement houses – helped improve the lives of the poor &

immigrants by providing daycare, education, and healthcare.

108. political machine – corrupt organization that controlled local

governments by giving food, jobs, bribes, and favors to voters

109. push factors – forces that drive people out of their native lands such

as population growth, agricultural changes, crop failures, the Industrial

Revolution, and religious/political turmoil.

110. pull factors – forces that draw people toward a new place. The three

main pull factors for the US were freedom, economic opportunity, and

abundant land.

111. new immigrants – immigrants to America from southern and eastern

Europe around/after 1900. The largest groups were southern Italians,

Jews, Poles, and Russians.

112. melting pot – a place where cultures blend.

113. assimilation – the process of blending into a society. Many immigrants

to America took English and citizenship classes offered by employers and

unions to “Americanize”.

114. Angel Island – immigration station in San Francisco Bay where many

Asian (specifically Chinese) immigrants were detained.

115. Chinese Exclusion Act – banned Chinese immigration from 1882-1943.

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