Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Lesson on Wednesday, November 14, 2018 (L9.3)

Aim: What were the causes and consequences of the Industrial and Market revolutions, and how did they change the way ordinary Americans lived? 

Bell Ringer: Pop Quiz 5.3

A.  standing between wealthy owners and propertyless wage earners; the social product of increased commerce. 

B. became a central theme of American popular culture and inspired many men (and a few women) to seek success. 

C. a doctrine of free will that was particularly attractive to members of the new middle class, who had accepted personal responsibility for their lives, improved their material condition, and welcomed Charles Grandison Finney's assurance that heaven was also within their grasp. 

D. the most successful social reform, in 1832 set out to curb the consumption of alcoholic beverages. 

E. condemned immigration and asserted the superiority of Protestant religious and cultural values. 



Objectives: 

1. WXT 2.0 


Agenda:

1. CNN10 (current events)


NEW SOCIAL CLASSES AND CULTURES

2. The Business Elite (NAT)

*How and why did elite families change between 1800 and 1860?

3. The Middle Class (CUL, WXT)

*J60 / A: The urban middle class engaged in conspicuous consumption for material comfort as their incomes rose during the Market Revolution. They viewed themselves as self-made men, based on a strong work ethic and the moral and mental discipline to avoid heavy drinking and gambling. They possessed a strong belief in public education.

*self-made man


4. Urban Workers and the Poor (CUL, WXT)

*J61 / A: The poor suffered terribly from economic exploitation in urban areas. Disease, substandard housing in slums, alcoholism, violence, high unemployment, and a lack of government social services characterized the lives of the urban poor in northeastern cities.

5. The Benevolent Empire (WXT)

*What was the Benevolent Empire, and why did it emerge at this specific historical  moment?

*Who opposed the work of the Benevolent Empire?


6. Charles Grandison Finney: Revivalism and Reform (CUL)

*Evangelical Beliefs

*Temperance / American Temperance Society

*Why was Finney's central message, and how did it influence the work of reform movements?



*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08_Ho_pkUVA (6 min)

7. Immigration and Culture Conflict (CUL, MIG)

*Irish Poverty
*Nativism / nativist movement






Terms to know: Industrial Revolution, division of labor, mineral-based economy, mechanics, Lowell System, machine tools, artisan republicanism, unions, labor theory of value, Market Revolution, Erie Canal, middle class, self-made man, Benevolent Empire,moral free agency, temperance society, nativism, Key People: Eli Whitney, Frances Cabot Lowell, Samuel Slater.   

Home Learning: 

1. Read: America Compared p. 289, Thinking Like a Historian p. 298-299, American Voices p. 308


Pop Quiz 9.3 answers

A. social class
B. self-made man
C. moral free agent
D. temperance 
E. nativist movement, nativism

Section Assignments

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