September 19, 2014

Agenda:

1. Warm Up:  Short Answer Question (ANY- PP. 358-359) TIMED:  5 Minutes- Selection.  10 Minutes Writing (Collected).

2. Review of Primary Source Exercise (Turner Thesis and Intro xxxiv (Answering DBQ) and Historical Themes.

 Key Concept 7.1: Government, political and social organizations struggled to address the effects of large-scale industrialization, economic uncertainty, and related social changes such as urbanization and mass migration.

Lecture Topic: America Moves to the City

 The late-nineteenth century was characterized by urbanization, new waves of immigration, renewed instances of nativism, cultural life in urban America, the “New Woman,” African-American push for expanded civil rights

(PEO2) (PEO3) (PEO6) (POL3)

Crash Course:  Immigration and Cities

OBJECTIVES:

1. Describe how the movement of both internal and international populations changed the makeup of America.

2. Identify ways that early reformers try to address some of the concerns associated with urbanization and immigration.  (PEO2) (PEO3) PEO-6) (PEO3)

3. Discuss challenges that big business faced increasing challenges from labor movements and those supporting regional concerns.  (WXT5) (WXT6) (PEO6) (ID5)

4. Explain how as migration both within the United States and from overseas increased rural and urban populations, reformers began to try to address gender, racial, ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic equalities.  (PEO2) (PEO3) (PEO6) (POL3)

ENRICHMENT:

Examine the chart in the text illustrating “Annual Immigration to the United States, 1860-2010.” What political issues and world events account for the peaks and valleys in the chart for the years of the late-nineteenth century?

Read “A Textile Worker Explains the Labor Market.” Based on this account, what was the plight of the factory worker in the late-nineteenth century? How sympathetic might the Senate committee have been and why?

Examine the chart “Annual Immigration to the United States, 1860-2010.” What political issues and world events account for the peaks and valleys in the chart for the years of the late-nineteenth century?