Mrs. Urbach's Classroom Notes and Information

 

The Second Industrial Revolution

Week of Sept. 2-5, 2008

U.S. Social Studies Binder (09.02.08)

Study Skills and Methods: Benchmark A (09.02.08)

Geography Benchmark: characteristics of geographic regions in the United States have changed over time (09.03.08)

Geography Benchmark Student Worksheet (09.03.08)

History Indicator: Explain the effects of industrialization in the United States in the 19th century including modernization of agriculture (09.04.08)

History Indicator Industrialization in the West Student Worksheet (09.04.08)

Week of Sept. 11-12, 2008

Big Business

Steel Making: Bessemer Process (09.11.08)

Railroad Expansion (09.11.08)

Two Railroads meet: Promontory Summit (09.11.08)

History Indicator: Corporations (09.12.08)

Rise of Big Business (09.12.08)

Corporations (09.13.08)

Industrial Tycoons (09.13.08)

Monopoly (09.13.08)

Week of Sept. 15

Social Darwinism

Week of Sept. 29

Time Lines

3 Major Waves of Immigration

Chapters 5-6 Industrial Revolution / Progressive Movement Time line

Classes of Society

Chapters 5-6 Class Status of Society (classes of society) in the Industrial Revolution

Union Activity Prior to the Progressive Movement:

Workers Organize in a Laissez-faire Climate

Workers Organize: American Workforce

2ND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: Transportation and Communication

Transportation and Communication Advances

Political Corruption in City Governments

Corruption in Cities

Week of October 6

Farmers Want Reforms

1880s Farmers and the Interstate Commerce Act

Early 1890s: A new voice on the political scene emerges--THE POPULIST PARTY

Economic Events of the Late 19th Century: 5.3 Time line # 1

Economic Events of the Late 19th Century: 5.3 Time line #2

Segregation and Discrimination

African‐American Men Voting Rights Time Line

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

The Progressives

Three Areas of Progressive Reform

Muckrakers

Easing the Suffering of the Poor

Settlement House Movement

Reforming the Workplace

Reforming the Workplace: Children and Women

Reforming the Workplace-Fire

Reforming Government

6.1 Election Reform

Week of October 13

The Women's Suffrage Movement