Lesson on Thursday, January 25, 2018

Aim: What new opportunities and risks did industrialization bring, and how did it reshape American society?

Bell Ringer: Review Journal 87 / A: As industrialization advanced, workers increasingly endured the process of deskilling whereby each worker, rather than creating a finished product, was assigned a single task in the production process. This gave employers more power because they were able to pay their workers less and could more easily exploit them, because each worker could easily be replaced. For workers on the shop floor, industrialism brought lower wages, increased exploitation, and decreased power in the workplace. (5 min)

Agenda: 

1. Read: Chapter 3 "Industrialization" Lessons 1-3 (pp.92-103). Have students complete the note-taking guide for Industrialization (Attachment B) using their textbook (McGraw-Hill United States History & Geography). 

Students are to complete Attachment B-2: Factors that Contributed to Late 19th Century Economic Growth and Key Industries in groups. Divide the work between group members, be ready to present in 10 minutes. (10 min)

3. B1-B3 presentations (10 min)

4. Exam Alert: The 2003 AP exam included a FRQ that asked students to "analyze the ways in which farmers and industrial workers responded to industrialization and the Gilded Age." 

5. Immigration - America Compared: Questions 1 and 2 (5 min)

*It is crucial that students understand how industrialization led to both opportunities and restrictions for immigrants, minorities, and women. 

THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT

6. https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=47 (read intro, then click on "document transcript"to read the actual document) (10 min)

7. Journal 88 - What were the long-term consequences of the Chinese Exclusion Act of U.S. immigration policy? 

A: The act created the legal foundations on which modern, exclusionary immigration policies would be built after the 1920s. To enforce the law, Congress and the courts gave sweeping  new powers to immigration officials, transforming the Chinese into America's first illegal immigrants. 

Home Learning: 

1. Complete B-3, B-4, and B-5. Divide the work between group members, by ready to present tomorrow. 

2. Thinking Like a Historian 17, due Monday, January 29, 2017. Create a HISTORICALLY DEFENSIBLE THESIS.