11.2 Students analyze the relationship among the rise of
industrialization, large-scale rural-to-urban migration, and massive immigration
from Southern and Eastern Europe.
- Know the effects of industrialization on living and working conditions,
including the portrayal of working conditions and food safety in Upton
Sinclair's The Jungle.
- Describe the changing landscape, including the growth of cities linked by
industry and trade, and the development of cities divided according to race,
ethnicity, and class.
- Trace the effect of the Americanization movement.
- Analyze the effect of urban political machines and responses to them by
immigrants and middle-class reformers.
- Discuss corporate mergers that produced trusts and cartels and the
economic and political policies of industrial leaders.
- Trace the economic development of the United States and its emergence as a
major industrial power, including its gains from trade and the advantages of
its physical geography.
- Analyze the similarities and differences between the ideologies of Social
Darwinism and Social Gospel (e.g., using biographies of William Graham
Sumner, Billy Sunday, Dwight L. Moody).
- Examine the effect of political programs and activities of Populists.
- Understand the effect of political programs and activities of the
Progressives (e.g., federal regulation of railroad transport, Children's
Bureau, the Sixteenth Amendment, Theodore Roosevelt).