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Industrial Revolution SS.912.A.3.2

  • You will need to know the social and/or political causes and/or conditions in government, society, and the economy that contributed to the Second Industrial Revolution.

  • You will need to know the significance of events, movements, and people in American society prior to and/or during the Second Industrial Revolution.

  • You will need to know the human experience during the Second Industrial Revolution.

  • You will need to know the new industries and/or economic innovations of the Second Industrial Revolution and their impact on American economy and society.

  • You will need to know the significant inventors of the Second Industrial Revolution.

  • You will need to know the experiences of Northern European, Southern European, and Asian immigrants during the Second Industrial Revolution.

  • You will need to know the impact of social change and reform movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  • You will need to know the origin, course, and/or consequences of the labor movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  • Items assessing the Second Industrial Revolution may include inventions, industrial developments, entrepreneurs, monopolies, government policies, and labor movements.

  • Items assessing the human experience during the Second Industrial Revolution may include the impact of massive immigration, the increase of urbanization, the rise of the political machine, and the influence of social reform movements on American society.

  • You will need to know the impact of key events and peoples in Florida history related to the Second Industrial Revolution.

Terms to know include, but are not limited to: African-American inventors, American Federation of Labor, Bessemer process, child labor, Chinese Exclusion Act, Everglades, Gentlemen’s Agreement, government regulation, Great Migration, Haymarket Riot (1886), Henry Flagler, Homestead Strike (1892), Ida Tarbell, immigration, innovation, Knights of Labor, labor unions, market economy, muckrakers, National Woman Suffrage Association, planned economy, political machines, Pullman Strike (1894), railroads, settlement houses, Sherman Antitrust Act (1890), Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1894), Social Darwinism, Social Gospel movement, suffrage movement, transportation, urbanization, urban centers.

Example One
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



In the cartoon above, President Theodore Roosevelt is depicted doing which of the following?

A.  Standing guard to protect big business

B.  Enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

C.  Leading a government take-over of large industries

D.  Putting an end to industries that might harm the environment

 

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Example Two



The picture below shows Jane Adams with some of the children being served by Hull House in Chicago, Illinois.  What goal of the Progressive Era is represented by this image and the existence of Hull House?

A. Fostering efficiency

B. Protecting social welfare

C. Creating economic reform

D. Promoting moral improvement

 

 

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Example Three



What was an immediate effect of the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825?

A.  Prices increased for food products along the Atlantic Coast.

B.  Farmers could more easily ship grain to eastern markets.

C. A territorial conflict began with Canada over the Great Lakes.

D. Railroads were forced to reduce their shipping rates.

 

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LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY
1860-1910 (32%)

Civil War and Reconstruction
Challenges to american Farmers
Industrial Revolution

GLOBAL MILITARY, POLITICAL , AND ECONOMIC CHALLENGES 1890-1940 (34%)

Imperialism
World War One
Roaring Tweenties
Peace & Relief after WWI
Civil Rights 20's & 30's
Great Depression & New Deal

UNITED STATES AND THE DEFENSE OF

THE INTERNATIONAL PEACE 1940-PRESENT (32%) 

World War II
Early Cold War 1945-1950
Foreign Policy; Truman
Post WWII Domestic Prosperity
1960's Foreign & Domestic Policy
Civil Rights Movements
Significant Supreme Court Decision
US Foreign Policy, 1972-Present
Into the 21st Century

Additional Resources

Example Four



A major purpose of the Progressive movement (1900–1917) was to

A. stimulate the economy

B. support government control of factory production

C. encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe

D. correct the economic and social abuses of industrial society

 

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