1. Defend or Refute this statement
Topic: Evaluate Industrialization and Urbanization in late 19th Century America
Do Now:
“Historians and social commentators that criticize industrialization and urbanization are simply nostalgic, romanticizing a pre-industrial past.
Defend or Refute this statement

2. Impact of Industrialization
Connecting the nation
Growth of cities
Emergence of full Industrial Capitalism
Exploitation of natural resources
Immigration
“New South”
Comparatively high standard of living
Laissez Faire or “Trust busting”?
Time regimentation (Fredrick Taylor)
Women workers
Labor Unions grow

3. The Lure of the City 1860-1900: Cities more numerous, larger in size
“Skyscrapers”
Industrial jobs
Sister Carrie (Dreiser)
Department stores
Sanitation and waste
Crime, disease
Tenements

4. The New Immigrants 1880s: Southern & Eastern Europeans ; Asia
Push/Pull factors
“Melting Pot”- Assimilation
Exploiting immigrants
Jane Addams and Hull House (Chicago)
Nativism
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
American Protective Association
Labor Unions and immigration

6. Intellectual Reactions
Education as opportunity for social mobility (John Dewey)
Growth of colleges (Morrill Act of 1862, Hatch Act 1887)
Secularized colleges
William James and Pragmatism (truth, testing, and problem solving)
Henry George Progress and Poverty (1879)
“Social Gospel”- churches help poor (Christian Socialism)
Mark Twain
Comstock Laws (1873)
Temperance Movement (Carrie Nation- WCTU)

7. African Americans and Age of Industry
Africans as sharecroppers, menial factory work
44% illiterate by 1900
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
Practical education
Self-help and slow improvement
Economic equality  political equality
The “Atlanta Compromise”
W.E.B. DuBois
Demanded immediate equality
NAACP
“talented tenth”

8. 3…2…1… 3. Things about urbanization (good or bad)
2. intellectual reactions to urbanization
1. Re-examine your previous thoughts on Do Now quote… do you still hold to it?