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Unit 4: The Development of Industrial United States

Terms to Know: American Federation of Labor (AFL) Hull House Monopoly Homestead Act Transcontinental Railroad Telegraph Barbed Wire Corporation Strike Tenement Urbanization

People to Know in this unit: ***Be able to read timelines, maps and graphs*** After the Civil War, people turned their attention WEST!!! The **Homestead Act** was signed at the beginning of the Civil War, but after the war was over the land rush began. African Americans looking to exit the south and start over are called **Exodusters**. Other Americans looking to break the sod covered plains to build houses and plant are called **Sodbusters**. These Americans faced many hardships. Know them. Technology helped settlers overcome those hardships. Watch this PowerPoint to learn how. Cattle Drives were used to help feed the many people in the cities. Technology helped bring big changes to American cities and industries. The Railroad connected the coasts and created the need for Time Zones. Cities moved inland where natural resources were located. Eastern Cities get bigger with the arrival of more immigrants. Big Business created the very rich, and took advantage of the very poor. Factory workers fought for rights and formed labor unions. This unit is a time in American history where we start putting the pieces back together and formed a united county. We become industrialized, urbanized and expanded to the west.
 * Samuel Gompers
 * Jane Addams http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/addams
 * Samuel Morse
 * Thomas Edison
 * Andrew Carnegie

Use this video clip to learn about the railroad. media type="file" key="Railroad.mov"

media type="file" key="Rockefeller Carnegie.mov" This movie clip will teach you about Rockefeller and Carnegie

This map shows the city of Chicago as a regional center of trade and transportation in 1900. Which industries were found in Iowa? http://www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/books/applications/imaps/maps/g5s_u7/index.html
 * 1) Interactive map of Chicago, 1900

2. Animated History maps Select the Cattle Drive chapter 1 and 2 Industrial Growth http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/amer_hist_present/get_chapter_group.htm?cin=1&rg=animations&at=animated_history&var=animated_history

3. Join a Cattle Drive http://www.hbschool.com/activity/cattledrive/cattledrive.html 4. America's Story about the Gilded Age (1878-1889) http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/gilded

5. Child Labor in America http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html 6. The Triangle Factory Fire of 1911 http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/

reading in the content area quiz: Use this document to review for the Benchmark. Kidspiration 3 inventors graphic organizer with chapter 4 lesson 1

Standards: 5.5.3 Interpret timelines that depict major historical post-Civil War events. 5.5.6 Determine the hardships encountered by Greater Plain settlers in the late 1800's (i.e., building materials, natural geography, climatic conditions, isolated communities, lack of revenue). 5.1.2 Interpret how culture changes over time as a consequence of industrialization, technology or cultural diffusion (i.e., railroad transportation, telecommunication, building design, varied types of music, and the growth of government services). 5.5.4 Recognize the rights that workers fought for in the late 1800's (i.e., wages, hours, insurance, and working conditions). 5.6.1 Recognize people who contributed to reform in Tennessee and American society (i.e., Samuel Gompers, Jane Addams, Martin Luther King, Jr., Gov. Austin Peay, Anne Dallas Dudley). 5.5.7 Interpret a primary reading sample. 5.6.2 Use tools of social science inquiry such as surveys, statistics, maps, and documents. 5.1.4 Analyze graphs to discover cultural trends (i.e., clothing, music, or radio sales).