Transcript Period 6 1865-1898 - Marblehead High School

Period 6 1865-1898
• THE BIG IDEA: The transformation of the United States from an
agricultural to an increasingly industrialized and urbanized society
brought about significant economic, political, diplomatic, social,
environmental, and cultural changes.
• Key Concept 6.1: The rise of big business in the United States
encouraged massive migrations and urbanization, sparked
government and popular efforts to reshape the U.S. economy and
environment, and renewed debates over U.S. national identity.
• Key Concept 6.2: The emergence of an industrial culture in the
United States led to both greater opportunities for, and restrictions
on, immigrants, minorities, and women.
• Key Concept 6.3: The “Gilded Age” witnesses new cultural and
intellectual movements in tandem with political debates over
economic and social policies.
Period 6 1865-1898
THE BIG IDEA: The transformation of the United States from an
agricultural to an increasingly industrialized and urbanized society
brought about significant economic, political, diplomatic, social,
environmental, and cultural changes
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Rise of Big Business
Urbanization
Immigration
Destruction of Native Americans
Moving West
Populists / Arguments over Monetary
Policy
Key Concept 6.1: The rise of big business in the United States
encouraged massive migrations and urbanization, sparked government
and popular efforts to reshape the U.S. economy and environment, and
renewed debates over U.S. national identity.
• Rise of Big Business
– Vertical / Horizontal
Integration
– Taylor / Scientific
Management
– Rockefeller, Carnegie,
Morgan, Vanderbilt,
Stanford, Hearst, Pulitzer
– Bessemer Process
– Horatio Alger stories
– Labor Unrest – Haymarket,
Homestead, Pullman
– Looking Backward
• Urbanization
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Moving West
Growth of Cities
“White City”
Chicago Fire
• Efforts to Reshape
– Sherman / Clayton Acts
– Support for Railroads
– “Lords of the Senate”
• National Identity
– Closure of Frontier –
Redirection of Frontier
Spirit (Turner)
Key Concept 6.2: The emergence of an industrial culture in the United
States led to both greater opportunities for, and restrictions on,
immigrants, minorities, and women.
• New Immigration
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Quotas
Ellis Island / Golden Door
Emma Lazarus
Progressive Stirrings
• Women
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Seneca Falls (48)
Stanton / Anthony
Support for Temperance
Cult of Domesticity
• Reconstruction / Post
Reconstruction Lives of
Af Ams
– Suffrage then
Disenfranchisement
– 40 Acres…
– Black Codes – Jim Crow
– Slaughterhouse Cases
– Plessy v. Ferguson
– Booker T. Washington
– Exodusters
Key Concept 6.3: The “Gilded Age” witnesses new cultural and
intellectual movements in tandem with political debates over economic
and social policies.
• Gilded Age – Twain – Rotten at Core
• Horatio Alger Stories
• Continued Nativism
– Chinese Exclusion Act
• Laissez Faire Econ
• Social Darwinism
• Realism in Literature / Painting (Ashcan
School)
Connections
• Immigration – 1840s, c1900, c.2000
• Late 19th C Indian Removal v. other times
• Turner’s Thesis v. Manifest Destiny v. City Upon a Hill v. American
Exceptionalism
• Econ changes – Heavy industry  Consumer goods in 1920s
• Urbanization  Suburbanization in 1950s  Gentrification in 1990s
• Moving West  Sunbelt Migration
• Changing definition of “the west”
• Melting Pot v. Salad Bowl (mosaic) metaphors
• Booker T. Washington v. DuBois v. Garvey v. Philip Randolph v. MLK
v. Malcolm X
• Separate but equal – Treatment of African Americans v. Treatment of
other minority interest groups (gay marriage)
• Turner’s Thesis / Manifest Destiny v. Drang nach osten