8th Grade U.S. History | Industrialization, Immigration, & Reform Lesson Unit

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• Unit Outline with Lesson-by-Lesson Overview
• 10 highly curated presentations featuring built-in Discussion Based Questions (DBQ) in both PowerPoint (PPT) & Google Slides formats
• 24 student exercise assignments complete with teacher answer keys -PLUS- Team Activity!
• 29 links to supplemental videos on YouTube
• Guided Notes Handouts for students for every lesson
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• Unit Assessment with teacher answer key

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The Industrial Revolution

• Overviews of the textile, cotton, coal mining, steel, and railroad industries
• Advances in manufacturing process and technology
• Important inventions such as the spinning jenny, cotton gin, telegraph, and others
• Advent of steam power and use of interchangeable parts
• Historically significant contributions from people like Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Samuel F.B. Morse, and many more

Transformation of the American Economy during the 19th Century

• How the economies of the North & South were impacted by the Industrial Revolution
• Why more American workers gradually turned to jobs in factories and away from farms and apprenticeships
• How railroads played an integral role in the rapid growth of the U.S. economy

Labor Movement/Organized Labor

• What Industrial Revolution working conditions were like
• Causes and effects of organized labor
• What organized labor is
• Rise of child labor
• Causes and effects of labor strikes

Immigration

• Analysis of European immigration to the U.S. throughout the 19th century and into the early 20th
• Contributing factors that led millions of Europeans to immigrate to the U.S.
• Settlement patterns of European immigrants during the 1800s and early 1900s
• Meaning of nativism (nativist) and its characteristics

Urbanization

• What urbanization is and factors that led to it during the late 1800s and early 1900s
• Causes and effects of urbanization
• Role of tenements

Southern Culture & Society

• How life in the South during the 19th century (pre-Civil War) is inaccurately portrayed in popular fiction (movies and novels)
• How enslaved peoples lived and were commonly treated by their supervisors (drivers) and slaveholders
• How most white southerners lived and made a living for themselves
• Why white southerners justified their use and/or support of the institution of slavery
• The integral role of plantations in the South during this time
• How and why white plantation owners, despite being a very small proportion of the Southern population, held such cultural, economic, and societal influence over the South
• Why white southerners wanted to maintain and preserve the institution of slavery

Era of Reform

• The Second Great Awakening (what it was and its impact on America)
• Causes and effects of the temperance movement
• Prison reforms
• Efforts to expand access to education to the disabled, impoverished, and African American community in the North
• Contributions of key historical figures such as Dorothea Dix, Horace Mann, and numerous others

The Underground Railroad

• Overview and analysis of what the Underground Railroad was and its historical significance
• How it played a key role for many enslaved people in escaping the wrath of slavery
• Why fugitive slave laws led to an increase in the number of slave hunters
• Importance of Harriet Tubman and the role she played in helping those along the Underground Railroad
• The many dangers and risks runaway enslaved people faced on the Underground Railroad

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