MACHINES, MONEY & MAYHEM
A major industry that expanded rapidly in the late 1800s.
What is Railroads, steel, oil, coal, or textiles?
A major region many immigrants came from after 1870.
What is Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, or Asia?
The central issue dividing the North and South before the Civil War.
What is Slavery?
An industrial leader who built a powerful oil monopoly.
What is John D. Rockefeller?
An arguable statement about the past.
What is A historical claim?
A question that is open-ended, debatable, and meaningful.
What is A compelling question?
A source created by someone who experienced an event directly.
What is a Primary source?
A working condition commonly experienced by factory laborers during industrialization.
What is Long hours, unsafe conditions, low pay, or child labor?
Crowded urban apartment buildings where many immigrants lived.
What is Tenements?
A reason westward expansion intensified sectional conflict.
What is Disputes over slavery in new territories?
A reformer who improved immigrant living conditions through settlement houses.
What is Jane Addams?
The reason claims must be supported with evidence.
What is To be credible and defensible?
A reason historians ask different questions about the same event.
What is a Different perspectives or purposes?
A source written later that analyzes historical events.
What is a Secondary source?
A reason industrialization caused rapid urban growth.
What is Factories created jobs that drew people to cities?
A social tension that increased as immigration expanded.
What is Nativism, discrimination, or job competition?
A political compromise intended to reduce conflict over slavery.
What is Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, or Kansas-Nebraska Act?
An African American leader who argued civil rights must be actively demanded.
What is W.E.B. Du Bois?
The key difference between a claim and a fact.
What is Claims are arguable; facts are proven?
A reason historians disagree while using the same evidence.
What is an Interpretation or context?
One factor used to evaluate source credibility.
What is an Author, purpose, date, or bias?
A political or social response created to address problems caused by industrialization.
What is Labor unions, antitrust laws, or child labor laws?
A way immigration both strengthened American culture and increased conflict.
What is Cultural diversity increased while prejudice grew?
An economic difference that reinforced sectional divisions.
What is Industrial North vs. agricultural, or slave-based South?
A difference between Andrew Carnegie’s view of industrial capitalism and that of labor activists.
What is Carnegie emphasized philanthropy and efficiency; labor activists emphasized workers’ rights?
A type of evidence historians generally consider strong.
What is Primary sources, data, or multiple sources?
An explanation of what evidence means rather than what happened.
What is an Interpretation?
A way bias can affect a source’s reliability.
What is It can distort perspective or accuracy?
A long-term consequence of industrialization that reshaped American society beyond the 1800s.
What is Urbanization, economic inequality, growth of the middle class, or rise of big business?
A judgment explaining how immigration challenged ideas of national unity.
What is Immigration altered identity while fueling fear and resistance?
A reason historians continue to debate the causes of the Civil War.
What is Differing interpretations of slavery, economics, and states’ rights?
An explanation of how one influential individual from this era reshaped American society in a lasting way.
What is:
Rockefeller reshaped business through monopolies?
Addams reshaped urban reform?
Du Bois reshaped civil rights activism?
Carnegie reshaped industrial growth and philanthropy?
A revised version of the claim “Industrialization changed America” that makes it defensible.
What is "Industrialization significantly changed America by accelerating urban growth and factory labor?"
The factor that most strongly shapes historical conclusions.
What is a Perspective?
A difference in value between a personal diary and a textbook.
What is Diary shows lived experience; textbook provides broader analysis?