"Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people."
-President Grover Cleveland
-President Grover Cleveland
Period 6: 1865-1898
Industrializing America: Upheavals and Experiments
The transformation of the United States from an agricultural to an increasingly industrialized and urbanized society brought about significant economic, political, diplomatic, social, environmental, and cultural changes.
Key Concept 6.1: Technological advances, large-scale production methods, and the opening of new markets encouraged the rise of industrial capitalism in the United States.
Key Concept 6.2: The migrations that accompanied industrialization transformed both urban and rural areas of the United States and caused dramatic social and cultural change.
Key Concept 6.3: The Gilded Age produced new cultural and intellectual movements, public reform efforts, and political debates over economic and social policies.
- Large-scale industrial production — accompanied by massive technological change, expanding international communication networks, and pro-growth government policies — generated rapid economic development and business consolidation.
- A variety of perspectives on the economy and labor developed during a time of financial panics and downturns.
- New systems of production and transportation enabled consolidation within agriculture, which, along with periods of instability, spurred a variety of responses from farmers.
Key Concept 6.2: The migrations that accompanied industrialization transformed both urban and rural areas of the United States and caused dramatic social and cultural change.
- International and internal migration increased urban populations and fostered the growth of a new urban culture.
- Larger numbers of migrants moved to the West in search of land and economic opportunity, frequently provoking competition and violent conflict.
Key Concept 6.3: The Gilded Age produced new cultural and intellectual movements, public reform efforts, and political debates over economic and social policies.
- New cultural and intellectual movements both buttressed and challenged the social order of the Gilded Age.
- Dramatic social changes in the period inspired political debates over citizenship, corruption, and the proper relationship between business and government.
Chapter 16: Conquering a Continent (1854-1890)
Aim: What troubles Americans as they move westward?
“American social development has been continually beginning over again on the frontier. This perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this expansion westward with its new opportunities, its continuous touch with the simplicity of primitive society, furnish the forces dominating American character. The true point of view in the history of this nation is not the Atlantic Coast, it is the Great West.”
-Frederick Jackson Turner, 1893
-Frederick Jackson Turner, 1893
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Chapter 17: Industrial America
Corporations and Conflicts (1877-1911)
Aim: What new opportunities and risks did industrialization bring, and how did it reshape American society?
“As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters. “ - Grover Cleveland, 1888
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Chapter 18: The Victorians Make the Modern (1880-1917)
Aim: How does the political landscape change after the Civil War?
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
- Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus”, 1883
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
- Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus”, 1883
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Chapter 19: "Civilization's Inferno": The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities (1880-1917)
Aim: What characterizes America during the Gilded Age?
“I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.”
-William “The Boss” Tweed
-William “The Boss” Tweed
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