Reading Assignment #1:  p. 248-251
Essential Question:  How did Industrialism impact the development of big business and organized labor? 
1.  Create an example for horizontal & vertical integration in your notes.  Feel free to draw a picture, a diagram, or explain your example in words.
*Provide a definition of: monopoly, horizontal, and vertical integration
DO NOT COPY THE PICTURES ON PG 249!

2.  Create a drawing representing labor issue and trouble in the late 1800s.  Provide an explanation to accompany your picture. 

Reading Assignment #2: Ch. 3, Sec. 3 pg. 254-260
Essential Question:  How did immigration and urbanization impact the development of modern America? 
Vocab:  urbanization, Nativism, tenements, political machines, graft
1.  Explain the immigrant experience for European and Asian immigrants in the last 1800s. 
2.  What were the reactions against immigration?
3.  How did urban areas develop after the Civil War?
4.  What problems emerged in urban areas (socially and politically)?
Summary:  How did immigration and urbanization impact the development of modern America? 

Reading Assignment #3:  Ch. 3, Sec. 4 pg. 264-270 
Essential Question:  How did Industrialism change ideas and culture in America?
Vocab:  Gilded Age, individualism, Social Darwinism, philanthropy, Social Gospel, settlement houses, Americanization
1.  What cultural changes resulted from Industrialism?
2.  Explain reform movements sparked by Industrialism.
3.  Compare and contrast Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver. p. 269
Summary:  How did Industrialism change ideas and culture in America?

Reading Assignment #4:  Extra Credit pg. 279-281
Essential Question: What was life like for African American post Reconstruction?
Vocab:  poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause, segregation, Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson
Key People:  Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois
1.  In what ways were African Americans discriminated against post Reconstruction in the South? 279-280
2.  How did some African Americans respond to discrimination?  p. 280-281
Summary:  What was life like for African American post Reconstruction?
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