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The number 1 reason for my achievement was:
Industrialization & ImmigrationLearning Requirements (Plan)
100% of students will be able to answer in detail: How did more inventions & people affect the US? Why & how did immigrants come to the US?
as evidenced by 77%+ or meeting personal goal on test.
Goals (Plan)
Benchmarks
Results (Study)
Class Goal My Goal My Score% of class that met goal
First Work (no corrections)
With corrections
77%+ %
Vocab ?s % % %Vocab Quiz % % %Checkpoint % % %
Test % % %
Commitments (Do & Act) Successes, Lessons, & Improvements (Study)
Strategies to help students understand, be successful, &
reach goals
+ (Plus)Why it worked or how it helped
students understand.
∆ (Delta)A change or improvement for the future or lesson learned.
Mr.
Culp
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… Monitor student work & progress
Analyze vocab, DQ, questions & examples
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Summarize & evaluate important information (reading & vocab questions)
Highlight text to evaluate information
Monitor time & progress on SS assignments
Industrialization & ImmigrationDaily Questions
1-9 due Thursday, February 20 /38 points10-17 due Thursday, February 27 /36 points
Date Questions
Tuesday, February 11
/6 points
585-589
How do the two (2) parts of the business cycle work? (boom & bust) 1. What were 3 major reasons industry grew in America from 1860-
1914?
2. What were 3 major inventions/discoveries that changed American life the most from 1860-1914?
Wednesday, February 12
/9 points
590-593
What was a transcontinental railroad?3. Who built the first transcontinental railroad (besides Native
Americans)?Central Pacific (1 group) Union Pacific (3 groups)
4. What were 5 effects railroads had on America?
Thursday, February 13
/7 points
594-597
5. How did/do robber barons affect society?
6. How did/do corporations, monopolies, and trusts affect business?
Corporations Monopolies (2 ways)
Trusts(3 ways)
How did/do philanthropists affect society?
Industrialization & ImmigrationDaily Questions
1-9 due Thursday, February 20 /38 points10-17 due Thursday, February 27 /36 points
Date Questions
Tuesday, February 11
/6 points
585-589
How do the two (2) parts of the business cycle work? (boom & bust) 1. What were 3 major reasons industry grew in America from 1860-
1914?
2. What were 3 major inventions that changed American life the most from 1860-1914?
Wednesday, February 12
/9 points
590-593
What was a transcontinental railroad?3. Who built the first transcontinental railroad (besides Native
Americans)?Central Pacific (1 group) Union Pacific (3 groups)
4. What were 5 effects railroads had on America?
Thursday, February 13
/7 points
594-597
5. How did/do robber barons affect society?
6. How did/do corporations, monopolies, and trusts affect business?
Corporations Monopolies (2 ways)
Trusts(3 ways)
How did/do philanthropists affect society?
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Friday, February 14
/6 points
7. How was the Gilded Age good and bad for America?3 ways good 3 ways bad
Tuesday, February 18
/5 points
8. Write 5 adjectives that describe working conditions during the Gilded Age.
Wednesday, February 19
/5 points
600-603
9. What 5 modern benefits did labor unions and strikes gain during the Gilded Age?
Thursday, February 20
/7 points
10. How did industrialization and inventions affect the size of cities?
11. Write 5 adjectives that describe what it was like to live in a tenement.
How did settlement houses and political machines affect cities?
Friday, February 21
/8 points
12. Why did/do immigrants come to the US?5 push factors 3 pull factors
Who were the “new immigrants” during the Gilded Age?
Monday, February 24
/5 points
13. Write 5 adjectives that describe a European immigrant’s journey to America & through Ellis Island during the Gilded Age.
Tuesday-Wednesday, February 25-
26
/10 points
14. How did immigrants assimilate into and affect the American “melting pot”?
2 ways assimilated (2 ways) How affected
15. What were 2 fears Americans had about immigrants?
16. How was a Chinese immigrant’s journey to & life in America different from a European immigrant’s?
Journey to America Life in America
17. Why was a Chinese immigrant’s life in America different from a European immigrant’s?
Thur, Feb 20-Wed, Feb 26
/6 points
18. How was the Gilded Age good and bad for America?3 ways good 3 ways bad
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Industrialization & ImmigrationVocabulary
Quiz questions due Friday, February 22Guidelines: No one word answers (yes/no/true/false/term)
89. business cycle – a pattern of good and bad times experienced by businessesa. boom (good times) – when businesses and industries grow because
people buy more and invest in businessb. bust (bad times) – when industries lay off workers, make fewer goods,
and businesses shrink or close because people don’t spend much and don’t invest in business
90. transcontinental railroad – a railroad that spanned the entire continent and encouraged people to settle the West and develop its economy.
91. robber baron – a businessman who became wealthy through dishonest methods such as lying, bribing officials, making secret deals, selling fake stock, and sabotage.
92. corporation – a business owned by investors who buy part of the company through shares of stock.
93. monopoly – a company that wipes out its competitors and controls an entire industry, including prices.
94. trust – a legal body created to hold stock in many companies. The companies worked together to reduce competition then raise prices and their profits.
95. philanthropist – a person who gives large sums of money to charities, universities, or public works.
96. the Gilded Age – the late 1800s in America when the wealth of a few people (robber barons and philanthropists) masked the rest of society’s problems like political corruption and widespread poverty.
97. sweatshops – makeshift factories in dimly lit and poorly ventilated buildings where workers (mainly women and children) worked long hours for low wages.
98. labor union – a group of workers who join together to negotiate better working conditions and wages with business owners
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99. strike – stopping work to demand better working conditions and wages
100. socialism – an economic system where work and profits are shared because all members of society are equal owners of all businesses
101. urbanization – growth of cities because of industrial jobs and improved transportation
102. tenement – an apartment house that is run-down and overcrowded
103. slum – neighborhood of overcrowded and dangerous tenements
104. settlement houses – helped improve the lives of the poor & immigrants by providing daycare, education, and healthcare.
105. political machine – corrupt organization that controlled local governments by giving food, jobs, bribes, and favors to voters
106. push factors – forces that drive people out of their native lands such as population growth, agricultural changes, crop failures, the Industrial Revolution, and religious/political turmoil.
107. pull factors – forces that draw people toward a new place. The three main pull factors for the US were freedom, economic opportunity, and abundant land.
108. new immigrants – immigrants to America from southern and eastern Europe around/after 1900. The largest groups were southern Italians,
Jews, Poles, and Russians.
109. melting pot – a place where cultures blend.
110. assimilation – the process of blending into a society. Many immigrants to America took English and citizenship classes offered by employers and unions to “Americanize”.
111. Angel Island – immigration station in San Francisco Bay where many Asian (specifically Chinese) immigrants were detained.
112. Chinese Exclusion Act – banned Chinese immigration from 1882-1943.
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