1. End Four Minutes First Four Chart Date & label your work
3/1/16 “Field Trip”
Explain something you learned from yesterday’s program at the CMHoF.
Keep this with all of your other First Four work.
To change the timings of this timer, you need to enter the animation settings, and change the timings for the Isosceles Triangles. There will be 2 that need changing (to the same amount) – one animates the top triangle emptying, whilst the other animates the bottom triangle filling.
When you change the timings these have to entered as a number of seconds.
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2. The Gilded Age & The Progressive Era
Unit Questions:
What is the cost of progress?
What do we value?

3. What do you see? What is the message?

4. Documents Read the poem, “The New Colossus.”
What is this about?
What values does it represent?
Read the Chinse Exclusion Act
How does it compare to the poem?

5. Group Discussion Questions
Why are these questions so hard to answer?
What core values of “America” do they challenge?
Freedom?
Equality?
Order?

6. Why were the 1870s and 1880s decades of rapid industrialization?
Civil War
Land
Transportation
Population
Limited Federal Govt
Technology
Business Innovations
What vocabulary, examples & descriptions could you use with each?

7. Paper 1 Part B Rubric & Examiner’s Report Evaluate your work
What did you do well?
What could you improve?
Exemplar Paper

8. Vocabulary Quiz #1 You may use your notes.
Write statement of significance
What is it & how is it significant to anything we’ve discussed in this unit?

9. GQ #2 - How great were the economic and social consequences of rapid industrialization in the late nineteenth century?
What is the invention?
Make a list of the significant changes this brought – economically and/or socially
Is there a “price” for this? What is anything is “lost”?

10. Business vs. Labor

11. Business vs. Labor Businesses making big $$$ Technology & inventions
Unfair practices
Effects
Economic boom for some
Many people exploited

12. Working Conditions Low Pay Long hours Unsafe conditions
1899: men $498/yr, women $267
Carnegie: $23 Million - Disparity of Wealth
Long hours
12-14 hrs – 6-7 days a week
Unsafe conditions
1882: 675 killed per week

13. Working Conditions Child Labor No benefits Sweatshops - unsafe
Triangle Shirtwaist Co. 1911
146 killed

14. Labor Unions Goals Tactics AFL – Samuel Gompers
Industrial Workers of the World
“Big Bill” Haywood
Advocated Socialism
Contrast with “bread & butter unionism”

15. Reaction to Unions Business Government Violent Strikes
Haymarket Square – 1877
Public opinion?
Sherman Antitrust Act used against them
Homestead Strike 1892
Pullman Strike 1894

16. Effects of Unions Pro-business environment hurt them
Still around today
Many reforms brought by unions

17. Quiz 1.What was the average pay for women in 1899 ?
2. How many people were killed per week in factories in 1882?
3. Why did 146 people die at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company?
4. Who was Samuel Gompers?
5. Public opinion turned against unions after what incident in 1877?

18. Immigration & Urbanization
America Moves to the City

19. 1870-1920 millions of immigrants to America – Why?
Immigration
millions of immigrants to America – Why?
Old vs. New Immigrants (1890)
How were they received?

21. Ports of Entry
Ellis Island
Statue of Liberty 1886
Angel Island

22. Problems for Immigrants
Language, Religion, Culture
Ethnic enclaves - Ghettos
Rise of Nativism
American Protective Assoc. 1887
Organized Labor
Old vs. New immigrants
Chinese Exclusion Act

25. What made city life possible? What were the problems?
Urbanization
Americans & Immigrants attracted to cities – why?
What made city life possible?
Inventions & innovations
What were the problems?

26. Problems of Cities Urban population skyrocketing
Those with money moved
Suburbs – bedroom communities
Mass transit – streetcars, trolleys
Effect on cities
Housing
Water, sanitation, crime
Calls for limiting immigration

27. Dumbbell Tenement

28. Flophouses
A Seven-Cent Lodging House, Pell Street

29. Government Help?
City “Machines”
Effects of Machines?

30. Reform Movement Social Gospel Settlement Houses
Walter Rauschenbusch
Settlement Houses
Jane Addams
Florence Kelly
Americanization Movement

31. Quiz 1. How were “new” immigrants different from “old” immigrants?
2. Which immigrants came through Ellis Island?
3. What is “the social gospel?”
4. What was the goal of the Americanization Movement?
5. Who was Jane Addams?