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Unit PlannerUS History and Geography

Wayne RESA – SS / Grade 9 / Social Studies / US History and Geography / Week 5 - Week 8
RESA, MAISA MC3 Units
Unit Abstract

Students ended the previous unit with an examination of economic and demographic data about the United States from Reconstruction to the turn of the century. In this unit, students focus on how technical and organizational innovations, entrepreneurs, migration and immigration led to the transformation of the national economy. They investigate entrepreneurs and engage in small group discussions evaluating whether these individuals were Captains of Industry or Robber Barons. Students also explore the immigrant experience, analyzing primary sources to determine how issues of freedom and equality affected the lives of immigrants. Using primary and secondary sources students analyze the consequences of industrialization, including its effects on both rural and urban America. In doing so, students explore the growth of Populism and the labor movement. After students examine and reflect upon how American concepts of freedom and equality were affected by industrialization, immigration, and urbanization, they record their thoughts in their Freedom Tracking Notebook. Students then compare the attributes of writing arguments and narratives, and consider the role of evidence in both. After analyzing a variety of sources related to industrialization, students use evidence to develop a historical narrative about the consequences of industrialization. Throughout the unit, students use their Freedom Tracking Notebook to reflect on how the ideas of freedom and equality shaped industrial and urban America during this period.

Unit 2: Growth of Industrial and Urban America - Unit Word Document with Contextualized HSCEs
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Stage One - Desired Results

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Standards
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Compelling Question

How and why did the meaning of freedom and equality in the United States change as a result of industrialization?

Supporting Questions
  1. How did geography, technology, people, and government cause the growth of industrial and urban America?
  2. How did industrialization transform life in late 19th and early 20th century America?
  3. How did the growth of an industrial and urban America help shape the meaning of freedom and equality?
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Content (Key Concepts)

disparity of wealth

ethnicity

historical narrative

immigration

industrialization

labor movements

mechanization

migration

populism

Social Darwinism

urbanization

 

Skills (Intellectual Processes)

Cause and Effect

Compare and contrast

Description

Identifying perspectives

Research

 

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Stage Two - Assessment Evidence

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Unit Assessment Tasks
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Stage Three - Learning Plan

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Lesson Plan Sequence
Unit 2 - Instructional Organization Document
Unit 2 - Supplemental Materials
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Resources

Equipment/Manipulative

Chart paper

 

Computer with Internet access for students

 

Highlighters for each student

 

Markers for chart paper

 

Overhead projector or document camera

 

Sticky notes

 

Student Resource

19th Century Inventors. About.com. 1 October 2015 http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/Nineteenth_3.htm

 

America on the Move. Smithsonian Institute. National Museum of American History. 1 October 2015 http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/exhibition/

 

American Federation of Labor. InfoPlease.com. 1 October 2015 http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/bus/A0856583.html

 

American Federation of Labor. Ohio History Central. Ohio Historical Society. 1 October 2015 http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=835

 

Andrew Carnegie. The American Experience. PBS. 1 October 2015 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/peopleevents/pande01.html

 

Arrival. A Nation of Immigrants. The City University of New York. 1 October 2015 http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/content/nationofimmigrants/arrival.php

 

*Berliner, Uri. “Have and Have Nots: Income Inequality in America.” National Public Radio. 5 Feb. 2007. 1 October 2015 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7180618

 

Bill Moyers Interview with Nell Irvin Painter. Bill Moyers Journal. PBS. 1 October 2015 http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02292008/watch2.html

 

“Bryan’s ‘Cross of Gold Speech:’ Mesmerizing the Masses.” History Matters. 1 October 2015 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5354/ -cross of gold speech audio and transcript>.

 

“Building New York City.” World History: The Modern Era. United Streaming. 1 October 2015 http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=8EF18FCE-F762-44B9-9EBD-74A51C245982&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US

 

Carnegie and the Era of Steel. Outline of American History. From Revolution to Reconstruction. 1 October 2015 http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/ch7_p2.htm

 

Ethnic and Race Relations. The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. 1 October 2015 http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=EARR

 

Eugene V. Debs, Union Leader. Debs Foundation. 2008. 17 March 2009

 

Foner, Eric. The Story of American Freedom. NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998. pp. 118-126.

 

“History of Steel.” Steel Manufacturing. Ball State University. 1 October 2015 http://www.bsu.edu/web/acmaassel/steel.html#History_of_Steel

 

“The Homestead Strike.” American Experience. PBS/WGBH. 1 October 2015 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/peopleevents/pande04.html

 

“Immigration to the United States.” The Rise of Industrial America. The Learning Page, Library of Congress. 1 October 2015 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/riseind/immgnts/immgrnts.html

Industrial Expansion 1865-1890. 17 March 2009

 

Industrial Revolution Inventors. About.com 1 October 2015 http://americanhistory.about.com/library/charts/blchartindrev.htm

 

“Industrialization and Reform.” History of the United States. The USA Online.com. 17 March 2009

 

“An Introduction to the American Industrial Revolution.” Discovery Education, United Streaming. 1 October 2015 http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com

 

Introduction to Oil Industry. Oil Industry. 1 October 2015 http://www.petroleumhistory.org/OilHistory/pages/intro.html

 

A Journalistic Masterpiece. The Rockefellers. American Experience. PBS/WGBH. 1 October 2015 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/sfeature/sf_7.html

 

Knights of Labor. US-History.com. 17 March 2009

 

Knights of Labor. Ohio History Central. Ohio Historical Society. 1 October 2015 http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=910

 

The New Industrial Age. US History.com. 17 March 2009

 

Overview: Immigration to the United States 1851-1900. Rise of Industrial America, 1876-1900. The Learning Page. Library of Congress. 1 October 2015 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/riseind/immgnts/immgrnts.html

 

The Peopling of America. 1880-1930. Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. 1 October 2015 http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/immexp/wseix_5_3.asp

 

Population Distribution by Age, Race, Nativity, and Sex Ratio, 1860–2005. InfoPlease.com. 1 October 2015 http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0110384.html , citing the US Census Bureau.

 

Party Platform, 1892. 1 October 2015 http://www.pinzler.com/ushistory/popparplatsupp.html

 

The Populist Party. 1896. Vassar College. 1 October 2015 http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/populists.html

 

“Railroads in the Late 19th Century.” The Rise of Industrial America. The Learning Page, Library of Congress. 1 October 2015 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/riseind/railroad/rail.html

 

Rich as Rockefeller. Freedom: History of US. PSB. 1 October 2015 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web09/segment4.html

 

Sound Recording Analysis Sheet. National Archives and Records Administration. 1 October 2015 http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/sound_recording_analysis_worksheet.pdf

 

Tarr, Joel A. The City and the Natural Environment. Carnegie Mellon University. 1 October 2015 http://www.gdrc.org/uem/doc-tarr.html

 

Textile Industry History. 1 October 2015 http://www.textilehistory.org/

 

The Triangle Factory Fire. Cornell University. 1 October 2015 http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/

United Mine Workers. Ohio History Central. Ohio Historical Society. 17 March 2009 http://ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=995&nm=United-Mine-Workers-of-America

 

United Mine Workers. 1 October 2015 http://www.umwa.org/index.php?q=content/brief-history-umwa

 

Wake Up, America! Freedom: A History of US. Webisode 4. PBS. 1 October 2015 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web04/index.html

 

Teacher Resource

Acuña-Alfaro,Jairo. US Industrialization Process in the Late XIX Century. The Natural Resource Endowment. 1 October 2015 http://www.geocities.com/jaacun/USAIndustrialization.PDF

 

Argument. The Writing Center. University of North Carolina. 1 October 2015 http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/argument.html

 

Barton, Keith C. and Linda S. Levstik. Teaching History for the Common Good. Routledge Publishing, 2004. pp. 131. 1 October 2015 http://books.google.com/books?id=DtJF3QvhT5gC&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=%22Use+of+evidence%22+history&source=web&ots=NZ6m2-IAy_&sig=lDUYTfXqsu30wDih8gkRos3MmSs&hl=en&ei=zbiYSeSbOYTYNK7dpIkM&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result#PPA131,M1

 

Brinkley, Alan. The Unfinished Nation PowerPoint. Chapter 18. Pearson Education. 1 October 2015 http://www.vbhssocialstudies.com/apus/powerpoint/chapter18.ppt

 

City Life in the Late 19th Century. Rise of Industrial America. Library of Congress. The Learning Page. 1 October 2015 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/riseind/city/city.html

 

The Corporate Revolution. Digital History. 17 March 2009

 

Ethnic and Race Relations. The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. 1 October 2015 http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=EARR

 

Historical Topic: A New Industrial America: Freedom and the Rights of Workers. TAHPDX: Great Decisions in U.S. History. 17 March 2009

 

Klumpp, James F. Writing Narrative History. University of Maryland. 17 March 2009

 

Littlefield, Henry M. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism. 1 October 2015 http://www.amphigory.com/oz.htm

 

Millions of Acres. American Memory. Library of Congress. 1 October 2015 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=rbpe&fileName=rbpe13/rbpe134/13401300/rbpe13401300page.db&recNum=0

 

Oakland Schools Teaching Research Writing Website: Skills Progression & Lessons http://www.osteachingresearchwriting.org/

 

*Outman, James L. and Elisabeth M. Outman. Industrial Revolution Almanac (2003), pp. 145-153.

 

Parker, David B. “The Rise and Fall of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a “Parable on Populism.” As published in the Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians. vol. 15 (1994), pp. 49-63. 1 October 2015 http://www.halcyon.com/piglet/Populism.htm

 

*Pennock, Pamela E. Industrialization: Part 1 – The Rise of Big Business. University of Michigan, Dearborn. 1 October 2015 http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~ppennock/L-BigBusiness.htm

 

People and Events: Ida Tarbell, 1857-1944. The Rockefellers. American Experience. PBS/WGBH. 1 October 2015 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/peopleevents/p_tarbell.html

 

*Populism. Missouri State University. 17 March 2009

 

“The Populist Party.” 1896. Vassar College. 1 October 2015 http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/populists.html

 

*The Populist Movement and the Struggle for Reform in America. Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado. 17 March 2009

 

Railroad Land Grants. American Memory. Library of Congress. 1 October 2015 http://memory.loc.gov/award/mhsdalad/120000//120033v.jpg

 

*Schultz, Stanley K. Lecture 10: How Ya’ G onna’ Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm?: The Rise of Populism. History Department. University of Wisconsin- Madison. 17 March 2009

 

*“What Went Wrong.” The Economist. March 19, 2008. 1 October 2015 http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10881318

 

The Wizard of Oz: Populism and the 1896 Election. Turn Me on Dead Man. 17 March 2009

 

“Writing Guide.” Boston University, Department of History. 1 October 2015 http://www.bu.edu/history/writing_guide.html

 

Resources for Further Professional Knowledge

Chicago: The City of the Century. American Experience. PBS Film. 1 October 2015 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/filmmore/index.html#

 

Campbell, Ballard C. Understanding Economic Change in the Gilded Age. Organization of American Historians. 17 March 2009

 

Drake, Frederick D. and Sarah Drake Brown. A Systematic Approach to Improve Students’ Historical Thinking. The History Teacher. 1 October 2015 http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/36.4/drake.html

 

Foner, Eric. The Story of American Freedom. NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998.

 

Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

 

Green, James. Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America. NY: Random House Publishing Group, 2007.

 

Painter, Nell Irvin. Standing at Armageddon. NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1987.

 

Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.

 

Rosenzweig, Roy. Eight Hours for What we Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920. NY: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

 

Wineburg, Sam. Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001.

 

* Although the resources denoted with an asterisk are not cited in the lessons for this unit, they are included here to provide meaningful options for teachers.

 

 

 

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Expectations/Standards
MI: Social Studies (2007)
High School
Civics & Government
C6 Citizenship in Action
6.1 Civic Inquiry and Public Discourse Use forms of inquiry and construct reasoned arguments to engage in public discourse around policy and public issues by investigating the question: How can citizens acquire information, solve problems, make decisions, and defend positions about public policy issues?
6.1.2 Locate, analyze, and use various forms of evidence, information, and sources about a significant public policy issue, including primary and secondary sources, legal documents (e.g., Constitutions, court decisions, state law), non-text based information (e.g., maps, charts, tables, graphs, and cartoons), and other forms of political communication (e.g., oral political cartoons, campaign advertisements, political speeches, and blogs).
US History & Geography
FOUNDATIONS IN U.S. HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY: ERAS 1-5
F1 Political and Intellectual Transformations of America to 1877
F1.1 Identify the core ideals of American society as refl ected in the documents below and analyze the ways that American society moved toward and/or away from its core ideals
• Declaration of Independence
• the U.S. Constitution (including the Preamble)
• Bill of Rights
• the Gettysburg Address
• 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
6.1 Growth of an Industrial and Urban America
Explain the causes and consequences – both positive and negative – of the Industrial Revolution and America’s growth from a predominantly agricultural, commercial, and rural nation to a more industrial and urban nation between 1870 and 1930.
6.1.1 Factors in the American Industrial Revolution – Analyze the factors that enabled the United States to become a major industrial power, including
• gains from trade (National Geography Standard 11, p. 206)
• organizational “revolution” (e.g., development of corporations and labor organizations)
• advantages of physical geography (National Geography Standards 4, 7, and 15; p. 190, 197, and 214)
• increase in labor through immigration and migration (National Geography Standard 9, p. 201)
• economic polices of government and industrial leaders (including Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller)
• technological advances
6.1.2 Labor’s Response to Industrial Growth – Evaluate the different responses of labor to industrial change including
• development of organized labor, including the Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor, and the United Mine Workers
• southern and western farmers’ reactions, including the growth of populism and the populist movement (e.g., Farmers Alliance, Grange, Platform of the Populist Party, Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” speech) (National Geography Standard 6, p. 195)
6.1.3 Urbanization – Analyze the changing urban and rural landscape by examining
• the location and expansion of major urban centers (National Geography Standard 12, p. 208)
• the growth of cities linked by industry and trade (National Geography Standard 11, p. 206)
• the development of cities divided by race, ethnicity, and class (National Geography Standard 10, p. 203)
• resulting tensions among and within groups (National Geography Standard 13, p. 210)
• different perspectives about immigrant experiences in the urban setting (National Geography Standards 9, p. 201; 12, p. 208)
6.1.4 Population Changes – Use census data from 1790-1940 to describe changes in the composition, distribution, and density of the American population and analyze their causes, including immigration, the Great Migration, and urbanization. (National Geography Standard 12, p. 208) p. 208
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