US History Unit 2 PBA

 

Assimilation of Various Groups:

 

Sub-question: What kind of America could immigrants expect to find when they arrived in the U.S.?

 

Immigration

 

Commentary on 1870 (Chinese in California)

 

Greek Americans (first five paragraphs only)

 

Immigration from the Civil War through World War I (various groups and living conditions)

 

Commentary on the Midwest (immigration/Native Americans)

 

Sand Creek Massacre

 

Commentary on 1890

 

Nativism in the Early 20^th Century

 

Commentary on 1887

 

Commentary on Immigrant Workers

 

Immigration in the 1910s, 1910-1919

 

Catholicism Scroll down for sections on immigration and Anti-Catholicism

 

Print article “Corruption and Scandal” from Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century (vol. 2, page 521)

 

Living and Working Conditions:

 

Sub-question: Were the living & working conditions of the period beneficial for anyone?

 

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

 

Working Conditions in Factories

 

Child Labor

 

Tenements

 

Social Gospel

 

Settlement and Farming Across the West

 

Gilded Age

 

Print article on Cities and Urbanization from Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century (vol. 1, page 209)

Print article on Philanthropy from Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century (vol. 2, p 489)

Moody Bible Institute Founded, 1889

 

John D. Rockefeller Forms the Stand Oil Trust: 1882

 

 

Impact of inventions and innovations:

 

Did inventions & innovations improve Americans’ lives?

 

Gilded Age (working class/wealthy)

 

Gilded Age

 

John D. Rockefeller Forms the Stand Oil Trust: 1882

 

Working Conditions in Factories

 

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

 

Industrial Revolution (skip section on Industrial Revolution in England)

 

Overview (inventions and innovations)

 

Cow Towns

 

Impact of Monopolization:

 

Sub-question: Did monopolies help or harm the United States?

 

Commentary on John D. Rockefeller Sr.

 

John D. Rockefeller Forms the Stand Oil Trust: 1882

 

Robber Barons

 

Labor (long but parts are very useful)

 

Wealth Overview helpful; includes two primary sources; other sections could be helpful

 

Gilded Age (working class/wealthy)

 

Industrial Revolution (skip section on Industrial Revolution in England)

 

Print Primary Source “Workers Cry Out” (Pullman Strike) from American Eras: 1878-1899

(p. 104)