Student Learning Map

  • Topic:Post Civil War Growth and Change
  • Subject(s):Social Studies
  • Days:15
  • 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 farming, urbanization, western migration, and the Labor movement?

   
Concept: Westward movement
Concept:

Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business

Concept:

The labor movement and Populism

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)

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)

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)

Lesson Essential Question(s):

What working conditions gave rise to the Labor Movement?

(A)

What factors limited the success of unions?

(A)

What problems were farmers facing in the late 1800's and how did they attempt to solve them?

(A)

What reforms did the Populist party advocate?

(A)

Why do you think the southern farmers did not support Populism even though most were poor farmers?

(ET)

Additional Info:

DBQ Project Carnegie activity, History Alive, Unitedstreaming.com,graphic organizers, Skillbuilders: charts graphs, maps, word wall, timelines from Chapter 7 in American Odyssey; videos and visual instruction in Ch. 7.

Resources:

Vocabulary Report

  • Bessemer process -
  • Great Plains -
  • "free silver" -
  • Sitting Bull -
  • Edwin Drake -
  • Farmers Alliances -
  • vertical integration -
  • George Custer -
  • Christopher Shoals -
  • assimilation -
  • Thomas Edison -
  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act -
  • Alexander G. Bell -
  • Dawes Act -
  • Samuel Gompers -
  • Battle of Wounded Knee -
  • George Pullman -
  • transcontinental railroad -
  • American Federation of Labor -
  • long drive -
  • Eugene V Debs -
  • Andrew Carnegie -
  • Chisholm Trail -
  • Homestead Act -
  • Industrial Workers of the World -
  • John D. Rockefeller -
  • vertical integration -
  • Knights of Labor -
  • exodusters -
  • Morrill Act -
  • strike -
  • horizontal integration -
  • Gilded Age -
  • Oliver Kelley -
  • collective bargaining -
  • Grange -
  • monopoly -
  • Social Darwinism -
  • Social Darwinism -
  • Farmers'Alliance -
  • Populism -
  • Transcontinental Railroad -