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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"
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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?
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Identifications:
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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”
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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
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Daily
Goals and Objectives:
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Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee -
Ethnic Cleansing at the Carlisle School
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Understand and explain support of Indian Boarding
schools
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Recognize humanitarian efforts, and altruistic
motives contributed to the destruction of Native
American culture
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Appreciate the important of perspective in the
processing of interpreting primary evidence
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Content – Settling of the west (Who? What? Where?,
(difference between image and reality)
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Know
the timeline of significant events in the settling
of the west
Causal Factors in the Growth of Industry
in the United States
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Describe the causal factors of the growth of
industry in the Untied States from the Civil War
though 1900
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Analyze and evaluate the causal factors of the
growth of industry in the Untied States from the
Civil War though 1900
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Synthesize list of causal factors into
comprehensive, effective thesis statement.
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Develop skills to assess thesis statements
Corporate Capitalism in the Gilded Age
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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.
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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.
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Distinguish between the early attempts at government
regulation of business in the late 19th
century
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Describe the reactions to the social class
reorganization caused by the industrial age.
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Identify the notable unions and strikes of the late
19th century.
Robber
Barons and Rebels
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Interpret, evaluate and assess a subjective
historical essay
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Distinguish the relative validity of historical
evidence
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Recognize the power of word choice and description
to influence a reader's opinion
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Understand one perspective of the Gilded Age
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identify the significant people, unions, strike and
events of the Gilded Age
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