Mrs. Ruland's Advanced Placement United States History Class

Unit 8 Study Guide

Unit 8 — Industrialization and Urbanization, 1877-1920

Facts to Know

Chapter 18 — The Machine Age, 1877-1920

1. The factors related to and resulting from industrialization in the United States.
2. The contributions of Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Ford, and the du Ponts to industrial development in the United States.
3. The impact of technology on the development of southern industry.
4. The late-nineteenth-century obsession with time studies and scientific management.
5. Late-nineteenth-century changes in the nature of work, in working conditions, and in the workplace itself, and the impact of these changes on American workers.
6. The rise of unionism and the emergence of worker activism in the late nineteenth century, and the reaction of employers, government, and the public to these manifestations of worker discontent.
7. The position of women, children, immigrants, and blacks in the work force and in the union movement in the late nineteenth century.
8. The emergence of the consumer society, and the factors that determined the extent to which working-class Americans were able to participate in this society.
9. The impact of scientific developments and education on living standards between 1900 and 1920.
10. The impact of each of the following on American attitudes and lifestyles:
    a. The indoor toilet
    b. Processed and preserved foods
    c. The sewing machine
    d. Department stores and chain stores
11. The characteristics of modern advertising and its role in industrial America.
12. The corporate consolidation movement of the late nineteenth century, and the consequences of this movement.
13. The ideologies of Social Darwinism, laissez-faire capitalism, and the Gospel of Wealth, and the impact of these ideas on workers and on the role of government in society.
14. The ideas and suggested reforms of those who dissented from the ideologies of the Gospel of Wealth, Social Darwinism, and laissez-faire capitalism.
15. The response of all branches of government at the state and national levels to the corporate consolidation movement on the one hand and to the grievances of workers on the other hand.
    
    

Chapter 19 — The Vitality and Turmoil of Urban Life, 1877-1920

1. The factors responsible for the birth of the modern city in late nineteenth-, early twentieth-century America, and the characteristics associated with the modern city.
2. The factors responsible for urban growth during the late nineteenth century.
3. The similarities and differences between the immigrants of the period from 1880 to 1920 and previous immigrants.
4. The interaction between immigrants of the late nineteenth century and American society, and the changes brought about by this interaction.
5. The impact of prejudice and discrimination on nonwhite Americans of the late nineteenth century.
6. The problems associated with American cities of the late nineteenth century, and the
   responses to those problems.
7. The means by which upward socioeconomic mobility could be achieved in the late nineteenth century, and the extent to which such mobility was possible.
8. The urban political machines and political bosses of the late nineteenth century.
9. The ideological basis of the urban reform movement, and the successes and failures of the reformers associated with this movement.
10. The impact of engineers on urban America and on home life in the United States from 1877 to 1920.
11. Household, family, and individual life patterns in American society between 1877 and 1920.
12. The emergence and characteristics of each of the following, and their impact on American society:
    a. Sports
    b. Show business
    c. Moving pictures
    d. Still pictures and the phonograph
    e. Popular journalism
13. Cultural pluralism, and its impact on American society.
    
    
    

Quizzes

• Textbook Quiz — chapter 18     chapter 19  
• Mrs. Pojer's Quizzes
  • Rise of Big Business and the Labor Movement  A   B  C   D  E
  • Immigration and Urban Society: Late 19th Century  A    B   

Documents

• American Woman's Home (1869)
• Strike of 1877 (1877)
• Chinese in San Francisco (1885)
• Montana v. Rehberg (1885)
• How the Other Half Lives (1890)
• Consumerism (1890-1926)

Study Aids

• Mrs. Ruland's Notes
  • Industrial Accidents
• From Revolution to Reconstruction - An Outline of American History
  • Chapter Seven: Growth and Transformation
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Modules on Major Topics
  • The Gilded Age
  • Immigration
• Digital History
  • Guided Readings
    • Industrialization and the Working Class
    • The Huddled Masses
    • Making of Modern America
    • The Rise of Big Business
    • The Rise of the City
  • Explorations
    • Learn About Immigration
  • Responses to Industrialism
  • Immigration
  • Landmarks in Immigration History
  • A Chronolgy of the Gilded Age
• Professor Stanley K. Schultz' lecture notes (University of Wisconsin)
  • Businessmen and "That Creature" the Corporation
  • The Social Philosophy of American Businessmen
  • Labor and the Workers' Search for Power
  • Foreign Immigrants in Industrial America
  • The Great Migration: Blacks in White America
  • Hitchhiker's Guide to American History
• George Burson, Aspen CO
  • The United States: 1877-1890
• Academic American History, Henry J. Sage, Northern Virginia Community College
  • The Gilded Age and Reconstruction, 1865-1900
  • Progressivism, Imperialism, World War, 1900-1920
• Mr. Feldmeth - Polytechnic School, Pasadena CA
  • American Industrialization - outline
  • The Rise of the American City - outline
• Timeline- 1851 to 1900 (Mr. Wood, Murray HS, Murray UT)
• Timeline- 1901 to 1950 (Mr. Wood, Murray HS, Murray UT)
• Presidential Election Data (David Leip) — 1880    1884     1888    1892    1896     1900    1904    1908     1912    1916    1920 
• Cram Sheet (Renata Melamud)
  • Grant through Cleveland
  • McKinley through Wilson
• "What, Then, Is This America" 1865-1900 (Crossroads)
• Divining America: Religion and the National Culture
  • African American Religion in the Nineteenth Century
  • The American Jewish Experience: Immigration and Acculturation
  • The American Jewish Experience: Antisemitism and Assimilation
  • Mormonism and the American Mainstream
  • Roman Catholics and the American Mainstream in the 20th Century
  • Roman Catholics and Immigration in Nineteenth-Century America

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