Unit 1: The Gilded Age
Critical Vocabulary: Forty-Niners, Transcontinental Railroad, Homestead Act, Exodusters, Battle of Little Bighorn, Dawes Act, Assimilation, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Ghost Dance, Wounded Knee Massacre, Laissez Faire Economics, Vertical Integration, Horizontal Integration, Social Darwinism, A Gospel of Wealth, Labor Union, Strike, Lockout, Blacklist, Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike, Imperialism, Great White Fleet, Annexation of Hawaii, Cuban War of Independence, Reconcentration Policy, Yellow Journalism, De Lome Letter, U.S.S. Maine, Treaty of Paris of 1898, Anti-Imperialist League, Philippine-American War, Open Door Policy, Boxer Rebellion, Push Factors, Pull Factors, Ellis Island, Americanization Movement, Nativism, Chinese Exclusion Act, Angel Island, Urbanization, Tenements, Political Machine, Muckrakers
Lesson 1: The Great West
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We will describe the opportunities and conflicts that emerged as Americans moved west at the turn of the century.
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Lesson 2: The Growth of Industry
We will describe the growth of industry in the United States, and I can assess its impact on American society.
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Lesson 3: American Imperialism
We will explain the political, economic, & cultural factors that fueled the growth of American imperialism.
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Lesson 4: America Moves to the City
We will discuss the ways in which the American population changed at the turn of the century, and I can analyze the issues that emerged as a result.
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