Unit 2, Day 2

Unit 2, Day 2

Gilded Age

Today's objectives:

• US.3B - Analyze economic issues such as industrialization, the growth of railroads, the growth of labor unions, farm issues, the cattle industry boom, the growth of entrepreneurship, and the pros and cons of big business.

• US.13A - Analyze the causes and effects of changing demographic patterns resulting from migration within the United States, including western expansion, rural to urban, the Great Migration, and the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt

• US.15A - Describe how the economic impact of the Transcontinental Railroad and the Homestead Act contributed to the close of the frontier in the late 19th century.

• US.15B - Describe the changing relationship between the federal government and private business, including the growth of free enterprise, costs and benefits of laissez-faire, Sherman Antitrust Act, Interstate Commerce Act, and Pure Food and Drug Act.

• US.27A - Analyze how scientific discoveries, technological innovations, space explorations, and the application of these by the free enterprise system improve the standard of living in the United States, including changes in transportation and communication.

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Multiple Choice

How did the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad contribute to the settlement of the West?

• By providing people with access to essential goods

• By raising money to build factories along the routes

• By giving funds to local leaders to build schools

• By establishing military forts along the routes