SS8Unit 1_US “Stovetop” 1850s-1900s
Month: August
Student Objective(s):
Students will learn about:
- The challenges that faced the nation after the Civil War & the attempts to meet those challenges
- the effects of westward expansion on the United States, how Native Americans resisted these changes & how the
US responded to them
- new inventions of the late 1800s and their impact on life & business
- immigration and its effects on US cities
- their own personal immigration heritage
- the reform movements in the US from the late 1800s to early 1900s in America
Unit:
US “Stovetop” 1850s1900s
Standards (primary standards in bold
underline):
Civics:
8.1.1d,e; 8.1.2a,d,e; 8.2.1a,b,c,d;
Strand(s):
Civics, Economics,
Geography, US
History
Economics:
8.2.2a,b; 8.2.4a; 8.2.5b; 8.2.10b;
8.2.11a,b; 8.2.12b; 8.2.13a,b;
Geography:
8.3.1b; 8.3.2a,b,c,d; 8.3.3a;
8.3.4a,b,c; 8.3.5a,b,c,d,e; 8.3.6a,b;
US History
8.4.1a,b,c; 8.4.2a,b,c; 8.4.3a,b;
8.4.4a,b,c,d,e; 8.4.5a,b,c,d;
Length:
15 days
Essential Questions:
Sub-unit 1
1) How did a deeply divided nation move
forward after the Civil War?
2) What changes occurred in the
American West during the late 1800s?
Sub-unit 2
3) How did technological advances
change people’s lives and affect
businesses?
4) How did immigration during the late
1800s & today effect the United States &
the student personally?
5) What were the challenges & benefits
of Progressive reform for Americans?
Vocabulary:
Assessments:
Resources:
Sub-unit 1
Reconstruction, Civil Rights, Amendment, Impeachment,
Ku Klux Klan, Segregation, Jim Crow Laws, poll tax,
sharecropping
Sub-unit 1
Wild West
Nameplates &
Scrapbook Project;
sub-unit quiz;
Western states quiz
Ch. 17-18-19-20-21 textbook & resources
Powerpoint & study guide notes
“America: The Story of Us” DVD segments
“Into the West” miniseries clips
Immigration Haves/Havenots Simulation
“Under the Same Moon” movie & guide
frontier, boomtown, cattle drive, transcontinental
railroad, treaty, reservation, battle vs massacre,
Homestead Act, sodbuster, deflation, Populist Party
Sub-unit 2
Second Industrial Revolution, Bessemer process,
patents, corporations, vertical vs horizontal integration,
social Darwinism, monopoly, antitrust, labor union,
collective bargaining, strike
old vs new immigrants, push/pull immigration, steerage,
tenement, sweatshop, mass transit, settlement houses
political machines, corruption, Progressives,
muckrakers, initiatives & referendums, worker’s
compensation, capitalism, socialism, suffrage
Sub-unit 2
Personal
Immigration
heritage project;
sub-unit quiz;
Eastern states quiz
Stovetop
assignment (which
“burner” is
biggest/why)
SKILL BUILDER: “Confronting Controversial
Issues” p. 966 (do this beginning of the year)
RECONSTRUCTION Ch. 17: p. 559 Radical
Republicans cartoon, p. 560 points of view,
p.566 KKK;
WESTWARD EXPANSION Ch. 18: p.584 Who,
What, Where, When, Why, How, WHAT IF?,
p.588 Myth vs Reality, p.590 Railroads Map,
p.594 Native American Land Loss/Battles Map,
p.601 primary source settler letter, p.603 wheat
production/price chart, p.604 William J Bryan bio;
INDUSTRY Ch. 19: p.623 biography Carnegie
Rockefeller & Stanford;
IMMIGRATION Ch.20: p.634-635 Fact vs Fiction;
p.637 History Videos on Ellis & Angel Island;
p.638-639 Immigration Patterns map up top;
p.653MC1-MC2 Ellis Island Multimedia
Connections;
PROGRESSIVISM Ch. 21: p.669 "The Jungle"
excerpt; p.672 Working Conditions for Children;
p.676 Animated History Map Women's Suffrage;