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Progressive Era Outline Notes

-ASSIGNMENTS-

Industrialization During the Progressive Era

Big Business Packet

Excluded from Reform Graphic Organizer

By the end of the unit students should show mastery of:

Reshaping the Nation and the Emergence of Modern America: 1877 to the Early 1900s

USII.4     The student will demonstrate knowledge of how life changed after the Civil War by

b)   explaining the reasons for the increase in immigration, growth of cities, new inventions, and challenges arising from this expansion;

d)   explaining the impact of new inventions, the rise of big business, the growth of industry, and life on American farms;

e)   describing the impact of the Progressive Movement on child labor, working conditions, the rise of organized labor, women’s suffrage, and the temperance movement.

Turmoil and Change: 1890s to 1945

USII.5     The student will demonstrate knowledge of the changing role of the United States from the late nineteenth century through World War I by

a)   explaining the reasons for and results of the Spanish American War;

b)   describing Theodore Roosevelt’s impact on the foreign policy of the United States;

USII.6     The student will demonstrate knowledge of the social, economic, and technological changes of the early twentieth century by

a)   explaining how developments in factory and labor productivity, transportation (including the use of the automobile), communication, and rural electrification changed American life and standard of living;

Essential Questions

• How do science and technology affect the way we live?

• How does society respond to radical change?

• Why did cities develop during the Industrial Era?