Chapters 17 and 18 Industrialization and the Age of the City
As the factories grew, so did the cities around them. The growth of cities was rapid with concentrations of workers in the ghettos and tenements in cities across the country.
The specific focus of this unit will be on:
A. Corporate consolidation of industry
B. Effects of technological development on the worker and workplace
C. Labor and unions
D. National politics and influence of corporate power
E. Migration and immigration: the changing face of the nation
F. Proponents and opponents of the new order, e.g., Social Darwinism and Social Gospel
G. Urbanization and the lure of the city
H. City problems and machine politics
I. Intellectual and cultural movements and popular entertainment
Reading Assignments:
Unfinished Nation Chapters 17-18 Pgs 395-403, 410-416, 418-421, 427-429
Class Notes:
Homework Assignments:
Printable copy of homework:
Part 1 - Ideas/themes to know and include in your notes:
Pgs 395-403, 410-416, 418-421, 427-429
Chapter 17
1. Bessemer process
2. Petroleum industry
3. Henry Ford
4. Frederick Taylor
5. Limited liability corporation
6. Monopolies
7. Immigrant workforce
8. Women in the workforce
9. Knights of Labor
10. AFL
11. Homestead Strike
12. Pullman Strike
Chapter 18
13. Urban diversity and assimilation
14. American Protective Society
15. High crime rates
16. Political machine
17. Spread of public education
Part 2 – Essay Question: Answer all parts of the question in full 1-2 page response, with developed thesis.
1. How successful were labor unions in improving the position of workers and working conditions from 1875 to 1900?
Part 3 - Vocabulary: These words are from the chapter, class readings, or discussion and will be used in context or need to be defined on the weekly chapter quiz. https://www.merriam-webster.com/
ambivalence
clamorous
genteel
ghetto
indigence
laissez-faire
polyglot
pragmatist
squalid
titan
pogrom
steerage
Definitions: Fill in the correct word that matches the definition listed.
__________________1. (n.) Simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings toward an object, person, or action
__________________2. (v.) One that is gigantic in power; like the giants who ruled the world in Greek mythology
__________________3. (n.) An organized massacre, especially of Jews.
__________________4. (n.) A section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships.
__________________5. (adj.) Noisily insistent
__________________6. (n.) The part or accommodations allotted to the passengers who travel at the cheapest rate.
__________________7. (n.) Having an aristocratic quality or flavor, related to the upper class
__________________8. (n.) A doctrine opposing governmental interference in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary to maintain property rights and peace
__________________9. (adj.) Marked by filthiness and degradation from neglect or poverty
__________________10. (adj.) Speaking or writing several languages
__________________11. (n.) A practical approach to problems and affairs
__________________12. (n.) A level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking
Homestead Strike http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/peopleevents/pande04.html
AFL http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=835
Great Railroad Strike http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=224
Molly Maguires http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=225
Knights of Labor http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/693.html OR http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=226
Haymarket Square http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=227 OR http://www.chicagohs.org/dramas/overview/main.htm
Pullman Strike http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1029.html OR http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/pullman/index.html
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/Trianglefire/ OR http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/triangle/trianglefire.html
Eugene v. Debs http://www.kansasheritage.org/pullman/debs.html
Samuel Gompers http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/gompers.cfm
Frederick Taylor and Scientific Management http://www.netmba.com/mgmt/scientific/
Rockefeller and Standard Oil http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/rockefeller/bio2.htm
Andrew Carnegie http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/peopleevents/pande01.html
Bessemer process http://www.tc.umn.edu/~tmisa/NOS/1.2_invent.html
Wright Bros http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/wright/wright.html OR http://www.nasm.si.edu/wrightbrothers/
Ford http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/showroom/1908/model.t.html OR http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dt13as.html
Edison's Motion Pictures http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhm.html
Thomas Edison http://www.menloparkmuseum.org/thomas-edison-and-menlo-park OR http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/edison_lo.html OR http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eastman/peopleevents/pande04.html
George Westinghouse http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/Our_Company/history/george_westinghouse.shtm
Alexander Graham Bell http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/peopleevents/pande01.html
Social Reform through Photography http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma01/davis/photography/reform/reform.html
History of the Salvation Army http://alturl.com/wune2
Louis Sullivan and the Prairie Style http://www.prairiestyles.com/lsullivan.htm
1893 Columbian Expo http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma96/wce/title.html
1890s Chronology of Events http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/chronology.html
Ellis Island and Immigration http://www.ellisisland.org/genealogy/ellis_island.asp
A Century of Jewish Immigration http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/haventohome/haven-century.html