Content Standards
11.2 Students analyze the relationship among the rise of industrialization, largescale rural-to-urban migration, and massive immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe. 1. Know the effects of industrialization on living and working conditions, including them portrayal of working conditions and food safety in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. 2. Describe the changing landscape, including the growth of cities linked by industry and trade, and the development of cities divided according to race, ethnicity, and class. 5. Discuss corporate mergers that produced trusts and cartels and the economic and political policies of industrial leaders. 9. Understand the effect of political programs and activities of the Progressives (e.g., federal regulation of railroad transport, Children’s Bureau, the Sixteenth Amendment, Theodore Roosevelt, Hiram Johnson). |
Essential Questions
How does new technology change society?
How did the United States’ population, cities, and politics change as a result of the Industrial Revolution?
What were the living and working conditions of workers?
What steps were taken to address the problems as a result of the Industrial Revolution?
How did the United States’ population, cities, and politics change as a result of the Industrial Revolution?
What were the living and working conditions of workers?
What steps were taken to address the problems as a result of the Industrial Revolution?
Big Ideas
Technological Advances during the (second) Industrial Revolution
Rural to Urban migration, Immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe
The Rise of Trusts and Industries
The Weight of the Industrial Revolution: The Workers
Rural to Urban migration, Immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe
The Rise of Trusts and Industries
The Weight of the Industrial Revolution: The Workers
Unit Assessments
Summative Assessments: An essay answering the following question: In what ways did the Industrial Revolution change the U.S.? Take a stance whether the change was positive or negative and provide evidence to support your claim. Focus on using how the industrial revolution changed living and working conditions, politics and population.
Summative Assessment: Project: Students create a magazine in which they pretend to be immigrants from Southern or Eastern Europe. The magazine must have information describing their journey to the U.S., their thoughts on differences between their previous rural environment and the now urban environment, a description of how technology has changed their lives (must reference work) by using at least two examples, and what changes they wish for. Summative Assessment: Reflection Using problems created as a result of population growth, immigration, politics and growth of trusts from the Industrial Revolution, describe one problem per category and use critical thinking skills to propose solutions. Summative Assessment: Debate Students will choose have a debate on legislation proposed by the Progressives, students must incorporate industrial technology, workers’ living and working conditions and the effects on U.S. landscape (city growth, demographics of population or industries within the U.S.). Summative assessment: Presentation Students will have the ability to form groups in which they can discuss the law or regulation of their choice. They must then evaluate at least three effects the laws have on our society today and present them to the class. |