US History

Christensen

Industrialization, Immigration, and the Gilded Age

Terms to Know:

Industrialization typewriter trust Standard Oil

Edwin Drake telephone robber baron Gospel of Wealth
Bessemer process Andrew Carnegie Social Darwinism Sherman Antitrust Act
Sky scrapers Monopoly Natural Selection George Pullman
Home Insurance Building Vertical integration John Rockefeller Haymarket
Thomas Edison Horizontal integration JP Morgan Triangle Shirtwaist fire
American Federation of Labor Samuel Gompers Eugene Debs Children’s March
Industrial Workers of the Worl d (IWW)- Wobblies Mother Jones Ellis Island
Chinese Exclusion Act Nativism tenement Political Machine
Graft

Questions to Ponder:

1) What factors led to industrialization in the United States?

2) What was boom in steel production used for?
3) What changes occurred in immigration patterns after the Civil War?
4) What were condition like for immigrants in urban areas?
5) How did the political machine help immigrants? How did it hurt them?

Review:

14.1, 14.3, 15.1, 15.3

Questions from 15.3
Carnegie reading and questions
Immigration Cartoons
Pullman Reading and questions