Unit 5: Progress of a Nation (Closing the West & Gilded Age)
Introduction
In this Unit we will cover:
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Unit Compelling Question: How can innovations and relationships influence change in society?
Describe the political, social, and economic changes experienced in the United States as a result of the Industrial Revolution.
Identify how individuals and groups took action to institute reform for political, social, and economic problems.
Analyze the challenges and opportunities faced by the nation in the face of rapid innovation.
Summarize the driving factors for American expansionism/imperialism at the turn of the century.
Analyze post-Civil War economic factors, industries, and agriculture of both North Carolina and the United States.
Summarize of the impact of technological innovations on agriculture and industry in the late 19th century America.
Evaluate the implications of the Plessey v Ferguson case on society in relation to the goals of Reconstruction.
Describe the role of Jim Crow laws on segregation and the conflict that resulted.
Summarize women’s suffrage and evaluate multiple perspectives through analysis of primary sources.
Identify a problem during this unit, summarize the progressive goals, and create an alternative reform movement.
Create a chart that displays a list of political, social and cultural movements and comparisons between each occurring in North Carolina and the
United States.
Analyze primary and secondary sources to analyze trends in society in a post-reconstruction society.
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Standards:
History
8.H.1.1 - Construct charts, graphs, and historical narratives to explain particular events or issues.
8.H.1.2 - Summarize the literal meaning of historical documents in order to establish context.
8.H.1.3 - Use primary and secondary sources to interpret various historical perspectives.
8.H.1.4 - Use historical inquiry to evaluate the validity of sources used to construct historical narratives (e.g. formulate historical questions, gather data from a variety of sources, evaluate and interpret data and support interpretations with historical evidence).
8.H.1.5 - Analyze the relationship between historical context and decision-making
8.H.2.1 - Explain the impact of economic, political, social, and military conflicts (e.g. war, slavery, states’ rights and citizenship and immigration policies) on the development of North Carolina and the United States.
8.H.2.2 - Summarize how leadership and citizen actions (e.g. the founding fathers, the Regulators, the Greensboro Four, and participants of the Wilmington Race Riots, 1898) influenced the outcome of key conflicts in North Carolina and the United States.
8.H.2.3 - Summarize the role of debate, compromise, and negotiation during significant periods in the history of North Carolina and the United States.
8.H.3.2 - Explain how changes brought about by technology and other innovations affected individuals and groups in North Carolina and the United States (e.g. advancements in transportation, communication networks and business practices).
8.H.3.3 Explain how individuals and groups have influenced economic, political and social change in North Carolina and the United States.
8.H.3.4 - Compare historical and contemporary issues to understand continuity and change in the development of North Carolina and the United States
Civics & Government
8.C&G.1.1 - Summarize democratic ideals expressed in local, state, and national government (e.g. limited government, popular sovereignty, separation of powers, republicanism, federalism and individual rights).
8.C&G.1.3 - Analyze differing viewpoints on the scope and power of state and national governments (e.g. Federalists and anti-Federalists, education, immigration and healthcare).
8.C&G.1.4 - Analyze access to democratic rights and freedoms among various groups in North Carolina and the United States (e.g. enslaved people, women, wage earners, landless farmers, American Indians, African Americans and other ethnic groups).
8.C&G.2.3 - Explain the impact of human and civil rights issues throughout North Carolina and United States history
Economics
8.E.1.1 - Explain how conflict, cooperation, and competition influenced periods of economic growth and decline (e.g. economic depressions and recessions)
Geography
8.G.1.1 - Explain how location and place have presented opportunities and challenges for the movement of people, goods, and ideas in North Carolina and the United States.
8.G.1.3 - Explain how human and environmental interaction affected quality of life and settlement patterns in North Carolina and the United States (e.g. environmental, disasters, infrastructure development, coastal restoration and alternative sources of energy)
Culture
8.C.1.1 - Explain how influences from Africa, Europe, and the Americas impacted North Carolina and the United States (e.g. Columbian Exchange, slavery and the decline of the American Indian populations).
8.C.1.2 - Summarize the origin of beliefs, practices, and traditions that represent various groups within North Carolina and the United States (e.g. Moravians, Scots-Irish, Highland Scots, Latinos, Hmong, Africans, and American Indians
Vocabulary:
Tenant farming - A tenant farmer is one who resides on land owned by a landlord. Tenant farming is an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital.. EX: share cropping
Industrialization - Industrialization is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society. This involves an extensive re-organization of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing.
Innovation - The creation of a new invention or process that makes daily life or tasks easier.
Reservation System - The forced relocation of Native American peoples to a confined region of land, happened when White Europeans found Native lands to be desirable for economic profit. Reservations still exist today.
Prohibition - 18th amendment to the Constitution, The Volstead Act, place a ban on and made illegal the production, manufacture, sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Inflation - In economics, inflation is a general rise in the price level in an economy over a period of time. When the general price level rises, each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services
Monopoly - A monopoly exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity. This contrasts with a monopsony which relates to a single entity's control of a market to purchase a good or service, and with oligopoly and duopoly which consists of a few sellers dominating a market.
Capitalism - Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, a price system, private property and the recognition of property rights, voluntary exchange and wage labor.
Progressivism - Progressivism is a political philosophy in support of social reform. Based on the idea of progress in which advancements in science, technology, economic development and social organization are vital
Muckrakers - The muckrakers were reform-minded journalists in the Progressive Era in the United States who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt. They typically had large audiences in popular magazines.
Populism - a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.
Responsibility - the state or fact of having a duty to deal with something. Progressives believed that it was the responsibility of the Govt to put the citizens well being first over big business.
Domestic Policy - Any government policy that has to deal with things going on within the nation and how things are handled within its borders.
Suffrage - the women's movement of the 1860's to 1919 for women's rights; primarily the right to vote, but then into other spheres like education, workforce, and other equalities to men.
Plessey vs Ferguson - Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal"
Compromise of 1877 - Compromise that ended Reconstruction, pulled troops from the southern states, put Democrats in charge of the South and President Hayes in office.
Urbanization - the process of making an area more urban. Key feature is the establishment of elevated living structures (high-rise apartments).
Immigration - Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens.
Tenement - a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments. A tenement is a type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access.