1. Unit 5— TURN OF THE CENTURY (1880s-1920s)
Stuff to Know

2. Unit Lessons 1-The Wild, Wild West? 2-Modernity: Good, Bad, and Ugly
3-The Golden Door
4-Celluloid and Progressive
5-DBQ—Carnegie: Was He a Hero?

3. Possible Written Response Qs
Gilded, Populist, and Progressive… describe, discuss, and connect these turn-of-the-century movements.
Describe the impact of RRs on the US (late 1800s to 1920s)
Discuss the rise of unionization and explain collective bargaining.
Jim Crow… discuss how it came about and its effects.
Discuss the differences between Booker T. and W.E.B.
What is “mass culture,” and what turn-of-the-century developments contributed to its prevalence?
Explain the impact of monopoly on society.
What was the overall goal of the Progressive Movement? Do you think the Movement was successful? Provide supporting evidence.
Given the history of America (late 1800s-early 1900s), why were Unions needed and how do they work?

4. Ch 13—Changes on the Frontier
Docs: Homestead Act (1662), Dawes Act (1867)
Geography of west
Original Inhabitants of west
Conflict with settlers
Different groups moving into and settling west, why?
Impact of RR
Sodbusters and Exodusters
Purpose of Dawes Act
Purpose of Homestead Act
Morrill Acts (1862/ 90)
Frederick Jackson Turner
What happened to many frontier farmers? Why? Their response?
The Grange/ Granger Mvt.
Populism/ Populist Platform
What is the myth of the west/ frontier?
What is the reality of the west/ frontier?
How did government subsidize, encourage, promote western settlement?

5. Ch 14—A New Industrial Age
Docs: none
Natural Resources Fuel Industrialization (coal, iron ore, oil)
Bessemer Process
Turn of Century Inventions and Innovations
Edison, Wizard of Menlo Park
How RRs impacted US growth and development
RRTime
Commercial Networks
New towns and Cities
Pullman, IL & Pullman Strike
RR Abuses
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Robber Barons/ Capts. of Industry
Carnegie, Rockefeller
Vertical & Horiz Integration
Social Darwinism
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
Labor Unions
How they work
Organization of (craft v. unski)
Power (strikes, lobby, collective barg, scabs, etc.)
Gompers (AFL), Debs (Kniights
Labor Troubles (socialist, violence)

6. Ch 15—Immigration and Urbanization
Docs:
The Golden Door
Period of Greatest Immigration
Immigration Patterns (N/W v. S/E… diff lang, faith, cul)
Ellis Island (what took place)
Attitudes toward
Melting Pot v. Nativism
Americanization
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Industrialization, Immigration, Urbanization connections
Conditions in cities (turn of century)
Tenements
Social Gospel Movement
Settlement Houses
Jane Adams, Hull House
Politics in Gilded Age
Party Machines (how work, targets whom)
Boss Tweed & Tammany Hall
Patronage
Pendleton Civil Service Act

7. Chs 16-17—Lifestyles & Progressivism
Docs:
Urban adaptations/ innovations
Frederick Law Olmstead & urban planning
Literacy rates & pulp fiction
Value of education for modern society & democracy
Horace Mann
Ed. and immigrants
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois (lives & views)
Niagara Movement
Contraction of Democracy for African Americans
LiteracyTests, PollTaxes, Grandfather clauses
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
Great Migration
American Leisure & Entertainment
Mass Circulation Newspapers
Joseph Pulitzer
William Randolph Hearst
Ashcan School
Rise of Advertising, Department Stores, and Chain Stores (Franchiese)

8. Chs 16-17—Lifestyles & Progressivism
Progressive Era—when, goals, legislation & movements
Economic Reforms
Minimum wage, 8-hour work day, worker health & safety rules, child labor, ICA & ICC, FTC, Federal Reserve Act, Antitrust Legislation, Federal Income Tax, 16th
Political Reforms
Initiative, referendum, recall, popular election of senators (17th), Pendleton Civil Service Act
Social Reforms
Social gospel, settlement houses, urban planning & beautification, women’s suffrage (19th), family planning (Margaret Sanger), Union Movements, Socialism, Temeperance/ Prohibition (18th), Conservation (Teddy Roosevelt), NAACP, Muckraking (know journalists!), Ashcan school, Pure Food & Drug Act, Meat Inspection (USDA)