Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Essential Questions 1880 -1920

Essential Questions
Chapter 20: An Industrial Society 1860-1914
• What factors (natural and technological) contributed to America’s industrial transformation?
• How did corporations change life in America?
• What steps did American workers take to improve working conditions?
Ch. 21: Changes in American Life 1880-1914
• What factors caused American urbanization?
• How did immigration change America at the turn of the 20th century?
• What kinds of segregation and discrimination permeated American society?
• What developments lead to the rise of mass culture?
Ch. 22: The Progressive Era 1890-1920
• What social, economic, and political reforms came about during the Progressive Era?
Ch. 23: Becoming a World Power 1880-1917
• What did the U.S. stand to gain by expanding militarily and economically?

Terms & Names to Know (not a complete list)
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • business cycle
  • capital
  • corporation
  • department store
  • discrimination
  • Ellis Island
  • Hull House
  • Ida B. Wells
  • imperialism
  • industrialization
  • Jane Addams
  • Jim Crow
  • John D. Rockefeller
  • monopoly
  • muckrakers
  • new immigrants
  • Nineteenth Amendment
  • Panama Canal
  • philanthropist
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • progressivism
  • segregation
  • Spanish-American War
  • suffrage
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • sweatshop
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Thomas Edison
  • U.S.S. Maine
  • urbanization
  • Wright Brothers
  • yellow journalism

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