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Student Learning Map
- Topic:Post Civil War Growth and Change
- Subject(s):Social Studies
- Days:20
- Grade(s):11
Key Learning:
The Post Civil War era was a period of rapid growth and industrial development punctuated by political,demographic and social change.
Unit Essential Question(s):
Lesson Essential Question(s):What factors contributed to rapid industrialization of the nation after the Civil War?
How did the new inventions change Americans' way of life?
Vocabulary:Bessemer process, Edwin Drake, Christopher Shoals, Thomas Edison, Alexander G. Bell, George Pullman, transcontinental railroad
Lesson Essential Question(s):What caused the growth of Big Business?
Would you consider the tycoons of the 19th century be considered Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?
What working conditions gave rise to the Labor Movement?
Lesson Essential Question(s):Lesson Essential Question(s):Vocabulary:Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, vertical integration, horizontal integration, Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Samuel Gompers, American Federation of Labor, Eugene V Debs, Industrial Workers of the World, Knights of Labor, strike, collective bargaining, monopoly, Social Darwinism
Vocabulary:Vocabulary:
Additional Info:
History Alive, Unitedstreaming.com,graphic organizers, Skillbuilders: charts graphs, maps, word wall, timelines from Chapters 5-9 in the Americans
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