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SSUSH 11 - Examine connections between the rise of big business, the growth of labor unions, and
technological innovations.
SSUSH 12 - Evaluate how Westward Expansion impacted the Plains Indians and fulfilled Manifest Destiny.
Vocabulary- Write the Definition and Importance
Gilded Age
Big Business
Monopoly
Trust
Steel
Oil
Railroads
Electric Light Bulb
Sherman Antitrust Act
Ellis Island
Angel Island
Immigration
Labor Unions
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- SSUSH 11: The rise of big business and new technologies (steel, oil, railroads, electricity) created national markets and concentrated wealth and power; those conditions produced harsh working conditions that spurred the growth of labor unions and labor conflict, and led to early regulation.
- SSUSH 12: Westward expansion (railroads, settlers, land policies) fulfilled ideas of Manifest Destiny for many Americans but devastated Plains Indian societies through loss of land, destruction of the buffalo, forced removals, and warfare.
Vocabulary — definition and importance
- Gilded Age
- Definition: Late 19th-century period (roughly 1870s–1900) of rapid industrialization, urbanization, great wealth for some, and political corruption.
- Importance: Marked the transformation to an industrial U.S., revealed stark economic inequality and social problems that prompted Progressive-era reforms.
- Big Business
- Definition: Large, often national corporations that dominated manufacturing, finance, and distribution in the late 19th century.
- Importance: Drove economic growth and innovation but concentrated economic power, influenced politics, and often exploited labor, prompting public concern and regulation.
- Monopoly
- Definition: A single company or cartel that controls an entire market for a product or service, eliminating meaningful competition.
- Importance: Enabled firms to set prices and limit consumer choice, fueling public outcry and the development of antitrust laws.
- Trust
- Definition: A legal arrangement in which multiple companies place control in trustees to coordinate operations and eliminate competition (used by firms like Standard Oil).
- Importance: A common form of consolidation that created de facto monopolies and accelerated calls for antitrust enforcement.
- Steel
- Definition: An alloy (primarily iron and carbon) that became inexpensive to mass-produce after innovations like the Bessemer process.
- Importance: Fundamental to building railroads, bridges, skyscrapers, and machinery—key to industrial expansion and urban growth.
- Oil
- Definition: Crude petroleum refined into fuel and lubricants; the oil industry grew rapidly after discoveries and refining technology in the late 19th century.
- Importance: Powered factories, ships, and later automobiles; produced immense fortunes (and monopolies) and changed transportation and industry.
- Railroads
- Definition: Networks of iron and later steel tracks and locomotives that connected regions and carried goods and people across the country.
- Importance: Unified national markets, accelerated westward settlement, transformed timekeeping (time zones), and greatly impacted Plains Indians by opening their lands to settlers and military access.
- Electric Light Bulb
- Definition: A practical incandescent lamp and the associated electrical distribution systems developed in the late 19th century (commercialized by inventors like Thomas Edison and others).
- Importance: Extended productive hours, improved urban safety and living standards, and enabled new industries and urban nightlife—an icon of technological modernization.
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- Definition: 1890 federal law banning “restraints of trade” and attempts to monopolize commerce.
- Importance: The first major U.S. antitrust statute; though initially weakly enforced, it established a legal basis for later actions to curb monopolies and regulate big business.
- Ellis Island
- Definition: Immigration processing station in New York Harbor that opened in 1892 and processed millions of mainly European immigrants.
- Importance: Symbolized the gateway to American opportunity for many immigrants; it centralized federal immigration processing and shaped urban ethnic communities.
- Angel Island
- Definition: West Coast immigration station in San Francisco Bay (operational 1910–1940) that processed many Asian immigrants.
- Importance: Functioned under stricter, often discriminatory procedures than Ellis Island; reflects national attitudes and policies that limited and detained Asian immigration.
- Immigration
- Definition: The movement of people into the United States to live and work; late 19th–early 20th centuries saw large waves from Europe and Asia.
- Importance: Supplied labor for industrial growth, changed the cultural and demographic makeup of cities, and provoked nativist reactions and restrictive laws.
- Labor Unions
- Definition: Organizations of workers formed to improve wages, hours, and working conditions through collective bargaining and strikes (examples: Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor).
- Importance: Pressured employers and government for reforms (safer conditions, labor laws, recognition of collective bargaining); union activity shaped labor policy and occasionally led to violent confrontations that drew national attention.
If you want, I can add short examples or key dates/events for each term (e.g., Carnegie and steel, Rockefeller and Standard Oil, Haymarket Riot, Dawes Act, Transcontinental Railroad dates).
- SSUSH 11: The rise of big business and new technologies (steel, oil, railroads, electricity) created national markets and concentrated wealth and power; those conditions produced harsh working conditions that spurred the growth of labor unions and labor conflict, and led to early regulation.
- SSUSH 12: Westward expansion (railroads, settlers, land policies) fulfilled ideas of Manifest Destiny for many Americans but devastated Plains Indian societies through loss of land, destruction of the buffalo, forced removals, and warfare.
Vocabulary — definition and importance
- Gilded Age
- Definition: Late 19th-century period (roughly 1870s–1900) of rapid industrialization, urbanization, great wealth for some, and political corruption.
- Importance: Marked the transformation to an industrial U.S., revealed stark economic inequality and social problems that prompted Progressive-era reforms.
- Big Business
- Definition: Large, often national corporations that dominated manufacturing, finance, and distribution in the late 19th century.
- Importance: Drove economic growth and innovation but concentrated economic power, influenced politics, and often exploited labor, prompting public concern and regulation.
- Monopoly
- Definition: A single company or cartel that controls an entire market for a product or service, eliminating meaningful competition.
- Importance: Enabled firms to set prices and limit consumer choice, fueling public outcry and the development of antitrust laws.
- Trust
- Definition: A legal arrangement in which multiple companies place control in trustees to coordinate operations and eliminate competition (used by firms like Standard Oil).
- Importance: A common form of consolidation that created de facto monopolies and accelerated calls for antitrust enforcement.
- Steel
- Definition: An alloy (primarily iron and carbon) that became inexpensive to mass-produce after innovations like the Bessemer process.
- Importance: Fundamental to building railroads, bridges, skyscrapers, and machinery—key to industrial expansion and urban growth.
- Oil
- Definition: Crude petroleum refined into fuel and lubricants; the oil industry grew rapidly after discoveries and refining technology in the late 19th century.
- Importance: Powered factories, ships, and later automobiles; produced immense fortunes (and monopolies) and changed transportation and industry.
- Railroads
- Definition: Networks of iron and later steel tracks and locomotives that connected regions and carried goods and people across the country.
- Importance: Unified national markets, accelerated westward settlement, transformed timekeeping (time zones), and greatly impacted Plains Indians by opening their lands to settlers and military access.
- Electric Light Bulb
- Definition: A practical incandescent lamp and the associated electrical distribution systems developed in the late 19th century (commercialized by inventors like Thomas Edison and others).
- Importance: Extended productive hours, improved urban safety and living standards, and enabled new industries and urban nightlife—an icon of technological modernization.
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- Definition: 1890 federal law banning “restraints of trade” and attempts to monopolize commerce.
- Importance: The first major U.S. antitrust statute; though initially weakly enforced, it established a legal basis for later actions to curb monopolies and regulate big business.
- Ellis Island
- Definition: Immigration processing station in New York Harbor that opened in 1892 and processed millions of mainly European immigrants.
- Importance: Symbolized the gateway to American opportunity for many immigrants; it centralized federal immigration processing and shaped urban ethnic communities.
- Angel Island
- Definition: West Coast immigration station in San Francisco Bay (operational 1910–1940) that processed many Asian immigrants.
- Importance: Functioned under stricter, often discriminatory procedures than Ellis Island; reflects national attitudes and policies that limited and detained Asian immigration.
- Immigration
- Definition: The movement of people into the United States to live and work; late 19th–early 20th centuries saw large waves from Europe and Asia.
- Importance: Supplied labor for industrial growth, changed the cultural and demographic makeup of cities, and provoked nativist reactions and restrictive laws.
- Labor Unions
- Definition: Organizations of workers formed to improve wages, hours, and working conditions through collective bargaining and strikes (examples: Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor).
- Importance: Pressured employers and government for reforms (safer conditions, labor laws, recognition of collective bargaining); union activity shaped labor policy and occasionally led to violent confrontations that drew national attention.
If you want, I can add short examples or key dates/events for each term (e.g., Carnegie and steel, Rockefeller and Standard Oil, Haymarket Riot, Dawes Act, Transcontinental Railroad dates).
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