Honors American History
Unit 1:  An Industrial Nation

Reading Schedule
In preparation
for class on…	Read…	Identify or prepare to answer/discuss…	
Terms in bold print should be identified using the “CaDRES” format. Non-bold terms should be described or defined.	
Tuesday
September 4	2.1
Innovation Boosts Growth	RC – Describe several factors that led to industrial growth in the late 19c
entrepreneurs
RC – Explain how the idea of free enterprise (or laissez faire economic
   policies) created an environment in which business could flourish
protective tariffs
RC – Discuss some of the technological innovations that fueled economic
   development
mass production
RC – Identify several effects of industrialization	
Thursday
September 6	2.2
Big Business Rises	corporation
RC – Identify several ways corporations worked to maximize profits
horizontal integration, monopoly, trust
vertical integration
RC – Identify several arguments for calling the industrialists “robber
   barons” and “captains of industry”
philanthropy (philanthropist)
Social Darwinism
Interstate Commerce Commission
Sherman Antitrust Act	
Tuesday
September 11		Remembering 9/11	
Wedneday
September 12	2.3
Organized Labor Movement	RC – Describe several hardships and other challenges laborers faced
sweatshops
company towns
RC – Explain why laborers wanted to organize unions and why
   employers often opposed them
collective bargaining
socialism, The Communist Manifesto
RC – Compare & contrast (C&C) the Knights of Labor and the AFL
Haymarket Riot
Homestead Strike
Pullman Strike	
Friday
September 14	
	MID-UNIT 1 QUIZ	
Monday
September 17	2.4
New Immigrants	RC – C&C the “new” immigrants with the “old” (Irish & German Catholics
   and those who came before them)
RC – Identify several “push” and “pull” factors that caused the “new”
   immigration
Ellis Island, Angel Island
RC – Describe the Americanization movement, settlement houses
nativism
Chinese Exclusion Act
RC – Identify several contributions immigrants made to American life	

Tuesday
September 18	2.5
Nation of Cities	urbanization
RC – Identify several reasons cities grew in the late 19c and early 20c
RC – Explain how technology improved city life
RC – Describe several issues that emerged due to rapid urbanization
tenements	
Thursday & Friday, September 20 & 21 – Unit 1 Test (An Industrial Nation)	

Essay Questions
You will be expected to answer several of these questions in essay form on the unit test, in class, and/or at home.

1)  Analyze the factors that contributed to the growth of American industry in the late 19th century.

2)  Historians debate whether the entrepreneurs and capitalists of the Gilded Age were “captains of industry” or “robber barons.”  To what extent do you believe either of these labels is accurate?

3)  To what extent did the federal government truly adopt a laissez-faire approach to the economy between 1865 and 1900?

4)  Analyze the experiences of the “new” immigrants in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

5)  Analyze the changes to American cities and urban life in the late 19th century.

6)  “The Industrial Revolution had a largely positive effect on American society.”  Assess the validity of this statement.

Ohio’s Learning Standards
The following content statements from Ohio’s Learning Standards (2012) will be studied in this unit.

The rise of corporations, heavy industry, mechanized farming and technological innovations transformed the American economy from an agrarian to an increasingly urban industrial society.  (CS #10)

The rise of industrialization led to a rapidly expanding workforce. Labor organizations grew amidst unregulated working conditions and violence toward supporters of organized labor.  (CS #11)

Immigration, internal migration and urbanization transformed American life.  (CS #12)