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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