Chapter Theme: Use of advertisements and technology to appeal to a new market economy and the changing roles of women during the 20th century.

Key Understandings:

  • The role of women as members of the workforce during the 19th century.
  • The creation of a new market economy and the use of advertisements.
  • The key inventions that significantly changed American standard of living.
  • The struggle for respect and power between big business and organized labor.
  • African American inventors were pivotal in the Industrialization of America.
  • Maggie Lena Walker was an important figure in this time period, with her establishment of the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank.

Essential Questions:

  • How did industrialization and new technology affect the economy and society?
  • How did big business shape the American economy in the 1800s and 1900s?
  • How did the rise of labor unions shape relations among workers, big business and government?
  • Who was Lewis Latimer?
  • Who was Granville T. Woods?
  • What was the National Negro Business League?
  • Why was Madam C.J. Walker important?

Key Vocabulary:

  • entrepreneur
  • protective tariff
  • laissez faire
  • patent
  • Thomas Edison
  • Bessemer process
  • suspension bridge
  • time zone
  • mass production
  • corporation
  • monopoly
  • cartel
  • John D. Rockefeller
  • horizontal integration
  • trust
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • vertical integration
  • Social Darwinism
  • ICC
  • Sherman Antitrust Act
  • sweatshop
  • company town
  • collective bargaining
  • socialism
  • Knights of Labor
  • Terence V. Powderly
  • Samuel Gompers
  • AFL
  • Haymarket Riot
  • Homestead Strike
  • Eugene V. Debs
  • Pullman Strike

Skills:

  • Write an essay with an argument and sufficient historical evidence.
  • Analyze primary source documents and use them to understand a historical topic.
  • Read and create charts that use data to understand a historical topic.
  • Make an oral presentation to explain a historical topic.
  • Use Power Point and other visual aids to enhance presentations.
  • Make a reasoned decision and support an argument.

Cumulative Progress Indicators:

  • 6.1.12.D.2.d : Analyze arguments for new women’s roles and rights, and explain why 18th-century society limited women’s aspirations.
  • 6.1.12.A.3.g : Determine the extent to which state and local issues, the press, the rise of interest-group politics, and the rise of party politics impacted the development of democratic institutions and practices.
  • 6.1.12.C.3.a : Analyze how technological developments transformed the economy, created international markets, and affected the environment in New Jersey and the nation.
  • 6.1.12.D.3.a : Determine how expansion created opportunities for some and hardships for others by considering multiple perspectives.
  • 6.1.12.C.6.a : Evaluate the effectiveness of labor and agricultural organizations in improving economic opportunities for various groups.

Performance Project Indicators:

  • Bi-weekly summative assessment
  • Expository essay on a historical topic
  • Authentic writing assignment / project
    • Sample task: Create an advertisement for new inventions geared towards improving the standard of living in American homes and the production of agricultural goods.
    • Sample task: Debate the pros and cons of organized labor unions negotiating with big business owners for improved conditions, wages and hours during the 19th century.
  • Document Based Assessment
    • Sample Task: “Attitudes Toward Organized Labor” (United States History, p. 461)

Resources:

  • http://www.blackamericans.com
  • A Right Worthy Grand Mission: Maggie Lena Walker and the Quest for Economic Empowerment, by Gertrude Woodruff Marlowe
  • The Inventive Spirit of African Americans: Patented Ingenuity, by Patricia Carter Sluby
  • Market Women: Black Women Entrepreneurs, Past, Present, and Future, by Cheryl A. Smith
  • http://www.inventors.about.com/od/blackinventors/a/black_history.htm
  • The First Transcontinental Railroad by Walter Coffey
  • Transcontinental Railroad Unites a Country by Mark Oehlert