Unit 2 Guide

UNIT 2: INDUSTRIALIZATION & MIGRATION
February 2-6
BIG IDEAS
After the Civil War, American industry was forever changed because of improvements in steel production, the growth of transcontinental railroads, and an increase in mass-producing factories.

While the owners of these newly booming businesses became wealthy, their workers formed unions to help them earn fair treatment and pay.

Despite the disagreements between industrialists and workers, the promise of jobs and prosperity lured immigrants to the United States from every corner of the world.

While American cities flourished, many Americans headed to the rural west to find their fortunes, often causing conflict between native Americans, immigrants, and black and white migrants.

VOCABULARY & PEOPLE
monopoly
trust
social Darwinism
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Andrew Carnegie
Thomas Edison
Cornelius Vanderbilt

strike
sweatshop
populist
Haymarket affair
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers

emigrant/immigrant
urbanization
quota
assimilation
Chinese Exclusion Act

Homestead Act
Massacre at Wounded Knee
Manifest Destiny
Dawes Act
Frederick Jackson Turner

UNIT ASSESSMENT
The Unit 4 Assessment will be a traditional test with multiple choice and constructed response questions. It will take place on Friday, February 6, 2009.

PRIMARY & SECONDARY SOURCES (10 points each)
You will read/examine the following primary and secondary sources, and complete either the Analyzing Photographs questions, or a SOAPS with SOAPbox. Sources with a • are required; on each day, you must choose one of the sources with a o.

Monday
•Promoting Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1896
•Harriet Robinson: Lowell Mill Girls, 1883
oEdison’s Patent for Electric Light, 1880
oMrs. W.C. Lathrop’s Letter to Edison, 1921

Tuesday
•Steel Magnate Andrew Carnegie Preaches a Gospel of Wealth, 1889 (only read paragraphs 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 13, 14, 18, 19, 24, 25)
•Unionist Samuel Gompers Asks “What Does the Working Man Want?” 1890
oImmigrant Thomas O’Donnell Laments the Plight of the Worker, 1883
oPullman Workers, Statement to the American Railway Union, 1894

Wednesday
•A Slovenian Boy Remembers Tales of the Golden Country, 1909 (read pages 3-6)
•White Americans Protest the Chinese Exclusion Act, 1902
oEmma Lazarus, "The New Colossus," 1883
oImmigrants on an Atlantic Liner, 1906

Thursday
•Frederick Jackson Turner Articulates the Frontier Thesis, 1893 (you don't need to write answers to the questions)
•Southern Freedmen Resolve to Move West, 1879
oBlack Elk, “The End of the Dream,” 1932
oBig Foot's camp after Battle of Wounded Knee; U.S. soldiers amid scattered debris of camp, 1891
o“Big Foot,” Johnny Cash, 1972

All work is due on Friday, February 6. No late work will be accepted.