The Industrial Age
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TOOLBOOK: You need only one for the entire class!
Action-packed lessons – students perform in front of the class! Lectures with graphic organizers.
Documents: quotations, speeches, political cartoons.
Lotsa mapping.
Games galore, including “The Gong Show.”
Group analysis and debates.
Projects: Students teach the class.
Homework on the internet.
Heavy on terms: “The ABCs of the Industrial Age” (recall terms). “Can you talk like Andrew Carnegie?” (define terms).
“Let your classroom BLOOM!” (Using Bloom’s taxonomy, explore terms in depth.)
Assessment: Learn the logic of a multiple-choice test by playing “Honk if you hate history!”
Concludes with the mother of all tests: 911 questions. [Reverse designers: give a test at the beginning of every class.]
- The Industrial Age
- The Gilded Age: What was the Gilded Age? The transformation of society. Examine presidents from Grant to McKinley, then play “Name that President!”
- The Western Frontier: Mapping the West. The Fort Laramie Treaty. The Sioux Wars. Crazy Horse and Custer. Federal Indian policy. The Dawes Act. Frederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Thesis.”
- The Age of Industry: “Name that Inventor!” “Name that Captain of Industry!” How the new industries became powerful in politics. Laissez-faire economics. What if your school were run by a Social Darwinist? Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth. “Who am I?” (Famous people of the Gilded Age).
- The New Immigrants: Push-pull factors. Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus.” The Melting Pot. Chinese Exclusion Act. National Origins Act of 1924. Political cartoons: immigration – yesterday and today.
- The Labor Movement: Interpret photos of child labor. American Federation of Labor. Haymarket, Homestead, Pullman. How effective was organized labor?
- Urbanization: The rise of industrial cities. Andrew Carnegie’s “Ode to Steel.” Carl Sandburg’s “Chicago – City of Big Shoulders.” Daily life in New York City.
- Politics & Reform: Democrats dominated the cities. Republicans dominated national politics. Political power of the railroads. “Name that Political Scandal!” The Civil Service System.
- The Populists: Who were the Populists – and why were they furious? The Populist Party – causes and results. Regulation of the railroads.
- The New South: The Heyday of Racism. Photo-essays on Jim Crow. Lynching. The Fourteenth Amendment. Plessy v. Ferguson. “Name that African American Leader!” The Great Migration. Booker T. Washington v. W.E.B. Du Bois.
The Test
It consists of 911 questions.
This is the mother of all tests.
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One book for the whole class.
No learning curve: Lessons are ready to reproduce.
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There is no need to use a textbook or reference books.
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Each lesson is 10-15 minutes in and out. Perfect for block scheduling.
THE LESSONS
1. The Gilded Age
Lesson #1 Lecture w/ graphic organizer What was the Gilded Age?
Lesson #2 Group analysis Analyze using Bloom’s taxonomy: The Gilded Age
Lesson #3 Game The Presidents of the Gilded Age: Grant to McKinley
Lesson #4 Game The Presidents
Lesson #5 Chart How industrialization transformed U.S. society
Test The Gilded Age: 52 questions
2. The Western Frontier
Lesson #1 Lecture w/ map The Transcontinental Railroad
Lesson #2 Mapping The West: Railroads, cattle trails, mining camps
Lesson #3 Examine maps The West: everything that was happening in the West!
Lesson #4 Internet - brief readings Gold strikes: Comstock Lode, Black Hills, Klondike
Lesson #5 Mapping How the railroad killed the buffalo
Lesson #6 Map & Timeline The Great Plains: Homestead Act to Wounded Knee
Lesson #7 Mapping The Sioux Wars, 1845-1876
Lesson #8 Group analysis Life is like a rock group: Federal Indian Policy
Lesson #9 Read a story aloud Custer & Crazy Horse
Lesson #10 Board game The Sioux Wars - Crazy Horse & Custer
Lesson #11 Quotations Native American Leaders
Lesson #12 Document Laramie Treaty, 1868
Lesson #13 Document New York Times: Little Bighorn, 1876
Lesson #14 Document The Dawes Act, 1887
Lesson #15 Group Analysis Analyze using Bloom’s taxonomy: The Dawes Act
Lesson #16 Chart Frederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Thesis”
Lesson #17 Game The ABCs of the Western frontier (recall terms)
Lesson #18 Game Can you talk like General Custer? (define terms)
Lesson #19 Game Mars / Venus: One guy vs. one gal
Lesson #20 Game Honk if you hate history: Five in front of the class
Lesson #21 Game Stump the teacher: practice the test in front of the class
Lesson #22 Game The Last Man Standing: take the test aloud!
Test The Western Frontier: 118 questions
3. The Industrial Age
Lesson #1 Graphic organizer The Industrial Revolution in the U.S.
Lesson #2 Lecture w/ graphic organizer The Industrial Age: who, what, when, why, where, how
Lesson #3 Graphic organizer The Causes
Lesson #4 Graphic organizer The Results
Lesson #5 Group analysis Analyze using Bloom’s taxonomy: Industrialization
Lesson #6 Group analysis Life is like a rock group: Industrialization
Lesson #7 Group analysis Life is like a rock group: The giants of industry
Lesson #8 Timeline Inventions: From interchangeable parts to the skyscraper
Lesson #9 Internet - brief readings The Inventors
Lesson #10 Game Name that Inventor!
Lesson #11 Game The Great Race: Inventors
Lesson #12 Internet - brief readings The Captains of Industry
Lesson #13 Game Name that Industrial Giant!
Lesson #14 Game The Great Race: Industrial Giants
Lesson #15 Library research The Industries: railroads, steel, oil, communications
Lesson #16 Lecture Laissez-faire, Social Darwinism, Gospel of Wealth
Lesson #17 Group analysis Analyze using Bloom’s taxonomy: Laissez faire
Lesson #18 Group analysis Life is like a rock group: Laissez-faire economics
Lesson #19 Group analysis Life is like a rock group: Federal regulation of business
Lesson #20 Lecture Social Darwinism
Lesson #21 Internet - brief readings Social Darwinism
Lesson #22 Group analysis Analyze using Bloom’s taxonomy: Social Darwinism
Lesson #23 Group analysis What if your high school were run by a Social Darwinist?
Lesson #24 Group analysis Life is like a rock group: Social Darwinism
Lesson #25 Lecture w/ readings Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth
Lesson #26 Quotations The Captains of Industry
Lesson #27 Game Using 28 photos, the class tries to guess who you are
Lesson #28 Game The ABCs of the Industrial Age
Lesson #29 Game Can you talk like John D. Rockefeller?
Lesson #30 Game Mars / Venus: One guy vs. one gal
Lesson #31 Game Honk if you hate history: Five in front of the class
Lesson #32 Game Stump the teacher: practice the test in front of the class
Lesson #33 Game The Last Man Standing: take the test aloud!
Test The Industrial Age: 181 questions
4. Immigration
Lesson #1 Mapping The “New” Immigrants
Lesson #2 Lecture The “New” Immigrants
Lesson #3 Analyze a poem “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus
Lesson #4 Charts Compare the “Old” and “New” Immigrants
Lesson #5 Political cartoons Analyze cartoons hostile to immigrants
Lesson #6 Internet - brief readings The Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882
Lesson #7 Group analysis Analyze using Bloom’s taxonomy: Chinese Exclusion Act
Lesson #8 Group analysis Analyze using Bloom’s taxonomy: National Origins Act
Lesson #9 Group analysis Life is like a rock group: Chinese Exclusion Act
Lesson #10 Group analysis Life is like a rock group: National Origins Act
Lesson #11 Group analysis Analyze using Bloom’s taxonomy: The Melting Pot
Lesson #12 Quotations Interpret famous quotes about the Melting Pot
Lesson #13 Research Using a graphic organizer: The Immigrants
Lesson #14 Game The ABCs of Immigration (recall terms)
Lesson #15 Game Can you talk like an immigrant? (define terms)
Lesson #16 Game Mars / Venus: One guy vs. one gal
Lesson #17 Game Honk if you hate history: Five in front of the class
Lesson #18 Game Stump the teacher: practice the test in front of the class
Lesson #19 Game The Last Man Standing: take the test aloud!
Test The Immigrants: 181 questions
5. The Labor Movement
Lesson #1 Lecture The Labor Movement
Lesson #2 Internet - examine photos Child Labor - photos by Lewis Hine
Lesson #3 Game Organized Labor: Knights of Labor vs the AF of L.
Lesson #4 Game The Great Race: Knights vs. AF of L.
Lesson #5 Lecture w/ graphic organizer The American Federation of Labor
Lesson #6 Internet - brief readings Three Labor Struggles: Haymarket, Homestead, Pullman
Lesson #7 Game Three Labor Struggles
Lesson #8 Game Three Labor Struggles
Lesson #9 Group analysis Life is like a rock group: The American Federation of Labor
Lesson #10 Group analysis Life is like a rock group: Labor-management relations
Lesson #11 Debate “Resolved, how effective was organized labor?”
Lesson #12 Game The ABCs of Organized Labor (recall terms)
Lesson #13 Game Can you talk like Samuel Gompers? (define terms)
Lesson #14 Game Mars / Venus: One guy vs. one gal
Lesson #15 Game Honk if you hate history: Five in front of the class Lesson #16 Game Stump the teacher: practice the test in front of the class
Lesson #17 Game The Last Man Standing: take the test aloud!
Test The Labor Movement: 75 questions
6. Urbanization
Lesson #1 Mapping Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Cleveland
Lesson #2 Mapping The Rise of Industrial Cities
Lesson #3 Mapping a poem Andrew Carnegie’s poem: An Ode to Steel
Lesson #4 Analyzing a poem Carl Sandburg’s “City of Big Shoulders” (Chicago)
Lesson #5 Lecture w/ photos Chicago: The city of big shoulders
Lesson #6 Library research Where did this industrial city arise? Why there?
Lesson #7 Lecture w/ map New York City!
Lesson #8 Group analysis Analyze using Bloom’s taxonomy: Urbanization
Lesson #9 Game The ABCs of Urbanization (recall terms)
Lesson #10 Game Can you talk like an urbanite? (define terms)
Lesson #11 Game Mars / Venus: One guy vs. one gal
Lesson #12 Game Honk if you hate history: Five in front of the class
Lesson #13 Game Stump the teacher: practice the test in front of the class
Lesson #14 Game The Last Man Standing: take the test aloud!
Test Urbanization: 52 questions
7. Politics & Reform
The Democrats ran the cities
Lesson #1 Lecture w/ graphic organizer The Political Machine
Lesson #2 Political cartoons Interpret eleven cartoons by Thomas Nast
Lesson #3 Game The ABCs of City Politics (recall terms)
Lesson #4 Game Can you talk like Boss Tweed? (define terms)
Test The Political Machine: 17 questions
The Republicans ran national politics
Lesson #1 Graphic organizer The Two Parties: What they stood for
Lesson #2 Graphic organizer The railroads were heavily involved in national politics
Lesson #3 Lecture w/ graphic organizer The Credit Mobilier scandal, 1872
Lesson #4 Graphic organizer Compare & Contrast: Credit Mobilier vs. the Enron scandal
Lesson #5 Game Scandal! (Credit Mobilier, Teapot Dome, Watergate)
Lesson #5 Game The Great Race: the three scandals
Lesson #6 Lecture w/ graphic organizer The Civil Service System: how it came into being
Lesson #7 Game The ABCs of Politics in the Gilded Age (recall terms)
Lesson #8 Game Can you talk like President Grant? (define terms)
Lesson #9 Game Mars / Venus: One guy vs. one gal
Lesson #10 Game Honk if you hate history: Five in front of the class
Lesson #11 Game Stump the teacher: practice the test in front of the class
Lesson #12 Game The Last Man Standing: take the test aloud!
Test Politics in the Gilded Age: 40 questions
The Populists led an agrarian revolt
Lesson #1 Graphic organizer The Populist Party was a THIRD party!
Lesson #2 Lecture w/ graphic organizer Populism: It was an agrarian revolt
Lesson #3 Group analysis Analyze using Bloom’s taxonomy: Populism
Lesson #4 Group analysis Life is like a rock group: The Populist Party
Lesson #5 Lecture The Populists’ No. 1 demand: regulation of the railroads
Lesson #6 Game The ABCs of Populism (recall terms)
Lesson #7 Game Can you talk like a Populist/ (define terms)
Test The Populists: 107 questions
The “New South”
Lesson #1 Lecture w/ photos Lynchings
Lesson #2 Timeline Timeline of Jim Crow
Lesson #3 Lecture The Crisis: After Reconstruction, life became a nightmare
Lesson #4 Photos & Brief Readings Jim Crow: what you could not do
Lesson #5 Lecturew/ graphic organizer The Jim Crow laws
Lesson #6 Terms & definitions Segregation
Lesson #7 Group analysis Analyze using Bloom’s taxonomy: Segregation
Lesson #8 Document The Fourteenth Amendment (1868)
Lesson #9 Group analysis Analyze using Bloom’s taxonomy: The 14th Amendment
Lesson #10 Document Supreme Court case: Plessy v. Ferguson
Lesson #11 Group analysis Analyze using Bloom’s taxonomy: Plessy v. Ferguson
Lesson #12 Game Name that African American leader!
Lesson #13 Game Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and more
Lesson #14 Lecture Booker T. Washington
Lesson #15 Group analysis Analyze using Bloom’s taxonomy: The Atlanta Compromise
Lesson #16 Compare & Contrast Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. Du Bois
Lesson #17 Debate Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. Du Bois Lesson #18 Lecture The Great Migration: African Americans left the South
Lesson #19 David Letterman Top Ten Reasons Why . . . African Americans left the South
Lesson #20 Game The ABCs of Segregation (recall terms)
Lesson #21 Game Can you talk like Jim Crow? (define terms)
Lesson #22 Game Mars / Venus: One guy vs. one gal
Lesson #23 Game Honk if you hate history: Five in front of the class
Lesson #24 Game Stump the teacher: practice the test in front of the class
Lesson #25 Game The Last Man Standing: take the test aloud!
Test “The New South”: 88 questions