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):
 
 

How did rapid industrialization and the rise of Big Business impact immigration,farming, urbanization, western migration,the Labor movement?

   
Concept: Industrialization
Concept: Immigration and urbanization
Concept: Westward movement
Lesson Essential Question(s):

What factors contributed to rapid industrialization of the nation after the Civil War?

(A)

How did the new inventions change Americans' way of life?

(A)

Lesson Essential Question(s):

Where did most of the immigrants come from after 1870?

(A)

How did life change for people in the cities in the late 1800's? (A)

(A)

Why is this period called the Gilded Age?

(ET)

Lesson Essential Question(s):

What accelerated the westward movement in the 1860's? (A)

What brought the Plains Indians into conflict with the settlers? (A)

How did farmers organize to improve their conditions? (A)

Concept: Big business and labor movement
Concept:
Concept:
Lesson Essential Question(s):

What caused the growth of Big Business?

(A)

Would you consider the tycoons of the 19th century be considered Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?

(ET)

What working conditions gave rise to the Labor Movement?

(A)

What factors limited the success of unions? (A)

Lesson Essential Question(s):
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Additional Info:

History Alive, Unitedstreaming.com,graphic organizers, Skillbuilders: charts graphs, maps, word wall, timelines from Chapters 5-9 in the Americans

Resources:

Vocabulary Report

  • Bessemer process -
  • Andrew Carnegie -
  • Great Plains -
  • Ellis Island -
  • John D Rockefeller -
  • Sitting Bull -
  • Angel Island -
  • Edwin Drake -
  • melting pot -
  • George Custer -
  • Christopher Shoals -
  • vertical integration -
  • horizontal integration -
  • Thomas Edison -
  • nativism -
  • assimilation -
  • Gentleman's agreement -
  • Alexander G. Bell -
  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act -
  • Dawes Act -
  • Battle of Wounded Knee -
  • Samuel Gompers -
  • Chinese Exclusion Act -
  • George Pullman -
  • American Federation of Labor -
  • emigration -
  • long drive -
  • transcontinental railroad -
  • urbanization -
  • Eugene V Debs -
  • Chisholm Trail -
  • Homestead Act -
  • Industrial Workers of the World -
  • tenement -
  • settlement -
  • exodusters -
  • Knights of Labor -
  • Morrill Act -
  • Jane Addams -
  • strike -
  • collective bargaining -
  • Oliver Kelley -
  • Social Gospel movement -
  • monopoly -
  • tenement -
  • Grange -
  • Farmers'Alliance -
  • Social Darwinism -
  • mass culture -
  • Populism -
  • political machine -
  • Pendleton Civil Service Act -