Readings: Boyer, Paul S. et al. The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People

Chapter 17: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1860-1900

Chapter 18: The Rise of Industrial America, 1865-1900

Zinn, Howard,  People’s History of the United States 

"Robber Barons and Rebels"


Discussion Questions:

1.  William Seward said that the Civil War was an “irrepressible conflict.”  Was this also true of the conflict between white America and the Plains Indians? How could the situation have been handled differently?

2.  What was the conflict between the farmers and the railroads?  Why did the early state and federal efforts to regulate railroads fail?

3.  Is Frederick Jackson Turner’s “frontier theses” correct? Do you see any evidence of it in the American Character today?

4.  Explain how the building of the nation's railroad network stimulated American industrialization and the growth of large corporations.

5.  Discuss government attempts to stop the growth of trusts and monopolies in the late nineteenth century. Why were these efforts ineffective?

6.  How would a conservative Social Darwinist view government’s role in terms of poverty and the exploitation of labor. How would the Social Darwinist justify such recommendations?  How would a Social Darwinist view the AP program?


Identifications:

John M. Chivington and the Sand Creek Massacre

Sitting Bull

George Armstrong Custer

Chief Joseph

Chief Dull Knife

Carlisle Indian School

Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor

Dawes Severalty Act, 1887

Wounded Knee

Pacific Railroad Act, 1862

Homestead Act, 1862

the Grange and the Granger Laws

Wabash v. Illinois, 1886

Interstate Commerce Act, 1887

Frederick Jackson Turner's “frontier thesis”

 

Jay Gould

Interstate Commerce Act

J. Pierpont Morgan

Andrew Carnegie

John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil

Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 1890 

United States v. E. C. Knigbt Co.

Thomas A. Edison

National Labor Union 

Terence V. Powderly and the Knights of Labor 

Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882

Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor 

railroad strikes of 1877

Haymarket Square bombing, 1886

Homestead strike, 1892

Pullman strike, 1894

Eugene Debs

William Graham Sumner and conservative Social Darwinism

Lester Frank Ward

Henry George, Progress and Poverty

Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward

 


 

Daily Goals and Objectives:

 

 

 

Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee  - Ethnic Cleansing at the Carlisle School 

  • Understand and explain support of Indian Boarding schools

  • Recognize humanitarian efforts, and altruistic motives contributed to the destruction of Native American culture

  • Appreciate the important of perspective in the processing of interpreting primary evidence

  • Content – Settling of the west (Who? What? Where?, (difference between image and reality)

  • Know the timeline of significant events in the settling of the west

 

Causal Factors in the Growth of Industry in the United States 

  • Describe the causal factors of the growth of industry in the Untied States from the Civil War though 1900

  • Analyze and evaluate the causal factors of the growth of industry in the Untied States from the Civil War though 1900

  • Synthesize list of causal factors into comprehensive, effective thesis statement.

  • Develop skills to assess thesis statements

  

Corporate Capitalism in the Gilded Age 

  • Understand the manner in which the concepts of immigration, urbanization, unionization and corporate organization are interrelated in the Industrial Age of the late 19th century.

  • Recognize the significant individuals, corporations and structures of the rise of big business in the following industries:  Railroads, Oil, Steel, Electricity and the Communication and Entertainment industry.

  • Distinguish between the early attempts at government regulation of business in the late 19th century

  • Describe the reactions to the social class reorganization caused by the industrial age.

  • Identify the notable unions and strikes of the late 19th century.

 

Robber Barons and Rebels

  • Interpret, evaluate and assess a subjective historical essay

  • Distinguish the relative validity of historical evidence

  • Recognize the power of word choice and description to influence a reader's opinion

  • Understand one perspective of the Gilded Age

  • identify the significant people, unions, strike and events of the Gilded Age