Fall Semester

School District of New Richmond

Unit I: The Birth of Modern America

Settling the West (1865-1890) Chapter 4
Essential
Learning Industrialization (1865-1901) Chapter 5
Outcomes Urban America (1865-1896) Chapter 6
 New technology allows
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
for growth of industry
and generates changes in
CHAPTER 4
population trends.
1. What difficulties
might farmers have
 Population shifts and faced as they worked
government policies have the new land?
dramatic social, polit- 2. Why did conflicts arise
ical, economic, and physi- between Native
Americans and set-
cal impacts on the people Homesteader settled in western Montana in 1862
tlers?
and landscape of the
United States. CHAPTER 5 Key Concepts...
1. What economic
 Competition for resources policies allowed Miners and Ranchers The Rise of Industry  Angel Island
leads to conflict between industries to expand
 Boomtown  GNP
after the Civil War?  Chinese Exclu-
Americans. sion Act
2. How did the railroads  Open Range  Laissez-faire
encourage the Urbanization
Inside Skyward...  Long Drive  Entrepreneur
settlement of the  Skyscraper
Plains and the West? Farming the Plains  Morrill Tariff
Homesteading Simulation DW
3. Why did captains of  Great Plains The Railroads  Tenement
Homesteading Quiz DW industry expand their  Party boss
businesses through  Homestead Act  Time Zone
Native Americans DW new ways of organiza-  Sodbusters  Land Grant  Political ma-
Guided Notes tion? chine
 Wheat Belt Big Business
 Graft
Native Americans Quiz DW  Bonanza Farm  Corporation
CHAPTER 6 Segregation
Inventions Reading DW 1. Why did Europeans Native Americans  Stock
 Poll Tax
come to America in  Nomads  Vertical Integration
Integration DW the late 1900s?  Segregation
2. What are some of the  Sand Creek  Horizontal
Ellis Island Web quest DW
Integration  Jim Crow
characteristics of Massacre
Chinese Exclusion SHEG DW cities?  Monopoly  Lynching
 Indian Peace
Immigration Quiz DW 3. What is racial segrega- Commission  Trust  Exodusters
tion and why is it
Urbanization Reading DW inherently wrong?  Chief Joseph  Holding company
 Assimilate Immigration
Sharecropping Simulation DW
 Dawes Act  Steerage
Segregation Quiz DW
 Custer  Nativism
Unit I Exam ASSMT
 Ellis Island