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