Humanities 8

 

 

Lesson Eight: The Northeast: Building Industry

 

  1. State Standards

 

1.  US8.6.1 Discuss the influence of industrialization and technological developments on the region, including human modification of the landscape and how physical geography shaped human actions.

2.  US8.6.2 Outline the physical obstacles to and the economic and political factors involved in building a network of roads, canals, and railroads.

3. US8.6.4 Study the lives of black Americans who gained freedom in the North and founded schools and churches to advance their rights and communities.

4.  US8.6.3 List the reasons for the wave of immigration from Northern Europe to the US and describe the growth in number, size and spatial arrangement of cities.

5.  US8.6.5 Trace the development of the American education system from its earliest roots, including the roles of religious and private schools and Horace Mann’s campaign for free public ed and its assimilating role in American culture.

6.  US8.6.7 Identify common themes in American art as well as transcendentalism and individualism.

7.  US8.6.6 examine the women’s suffrage movement.


Objectives

    1. Concept Objective(s)

a.      Describe how manufacturing changed and why it happened first in New England.

b.      Discuss the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the nation’s economy

c.List ways that cities changed in the early 1800’s.

d.      Discuss how transportation improvements helped settlers to move west.

e.      Describe the Erie Canal and its impact on the nation.

f.     Outline changes in western settlement in the early 1800’s.

g.      Describe working conditions in the factories and problems workers faced.

h.Discuss the special concerns of African American and women workers.

i.     Explain why immigration rose in the early 1800s and how the immigrants lived after they reached the US.

j.      Discuss the reaction to these immigrants and problems they faced.

k.Explain the impact of the Second Great Awakening.

l.      Identify the principal leaders of various reform movements.

m.    Describe changing American culture in the early 1800s and name some important writers.

n.Describe what happened at the Seneca Falls Convention.

o.      Explain how the women’s rights movement changed.

p.      Outline how American women progressed in the 1800s.

    1. Lesson Content

a.      Review chapter 8

 

  1.  Key Vocabulary
    1. Industrial Revolution
    2. capitalism
    3. capital
    4. free enterprise
    5. technology
    6. cotton gin
    7. patent
    8. factory system
    9. interchangeable parts
    10. census
    11. turnpike
    12. canal
    13. lock
    14. trade union
    15. strike
    16. prejudice
    17. discrimination
    18. famine
    19. nativist
    20. utopia
    21. revival
    22. temperance
    23. normal school
    24. transcendentalist
    25. suffrage
    26. coeducation

 

     D.  Procedures/Activities

1.       opener/roll; collect homework

2.      circle game – Discuss an advantage and a disadvantage of city life in the North.

3.      Discuss critical thinking question: “How did the Industrial Revolution make the US more economically independent in the early 1800s?”  

4.      Partner assignment: This chapter highlighted various problems, or challenges, that groups of people faced.  Choose one group and describe their unique challenges and the ways in which people attempted to face those challenges. (orally or written report)

 

  1. Assessment/Evaluation
    1. Quiz on chapter 8