Today's Agenda

AP Learning Objective: 
Explain how different reform movements responded to the rise of industrial capitalism in the Gilded Age.

Learning Target:
I can describe the major issues that emerged as Americans moved into cities, and I can analyze the ways in which they were addressed.

Critical Vocabulary: Homestead Act, Exodusters, Great Sioux War, Ghost Dance, Dawes Act, New Immigrants, Chinese Exclusion Act, Political Machines, Patronage, Pendleton Act, Populist Party, Omaha Platform, Laissez Faire Economics,Social Darwinism, Vertical Integration, Horizontal Integration, Monopoly, A Gospel of Wealth, American Federation of Labor, Industrial Workers of the World, Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Muckrakers, Social Gospel Movement, Settlement House Movement, Atlanta Compromise, Niagara Movement, Square Deal, Trust-Buster, The Jungle, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Progressive Party, New Nationalism, New Freedom, Sixteenth Amendment, Federal Reserve Act, Clayton Anti-Trust Act, Seventeenth Amendment, Eighteenth Amendment, Nineteenth Amendment

Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: What is a muckraker?
2. Citizenship Question: ​Who does a U.S. Senator represent? 
3. A. all people in the United States 
   B. all people in the Senator's state 
   C. only the people in the state who voted for the Senator 
   D. only people who belong to the political party of the Senator
4. Collaborative Learning: America Moves to the City Poster
5. Reflection Question: Summarize your group's problem in your own words.