APUSH Unit 6

Westward Expansion

Summary Article of this time period: https://www.ushistory.org/us/36.asp

Key Concept: Explain causes & effects of Westward expansion in the 2^nd half of the 1800’s

-Role of Transcontinental RR

-Homestead Act

-Mining, Farming, Ranching in the West

-Impacts on Native Americans

Video & Article: https://youtu.be/Q16OZkgSXfM; https://www.ushistory.org/us/40.asp

The “New South”

Key Concept: Explain how various factors contributed to continuity and change in the New South

-attempts at industrialization in the South

-agriculture in the South (sharecropping & tenant farmers)

-African Americans after Reconstruction (Plessey v. Ferguson)

Technological Innovations, Industry & Labor

Key Concept: Explain the effects of technological advances in the development of the U.S.

Explain the socioeconomic continuities and changes from the growth of industrial capitalism.

-New forms of communication (ex. Telegraph) & technology (RRs, steel, lights, etc) changed both society &

the economy.

-Growth of Big Business & its Practices & Philosophies (ex. Social Darwinism)

-Labor in the Gilded Age (Unions, working conditions, etc)

Video: https://youtu.be/r6tRp-zRUJs

Immigration

Key Concept: Explain how cultural & economic factors

affected migration patterns & the various responses to it.

-Migration of African Americans

-Growth of cities

-Influx of Immigrants & American Responses

Video: https://youtu.be/RRhjqqe750A

Growth of Middle Class & Reforms

Key Concept: Explain causes of increased economic opportunities & its effects.

Explain how different reforms responded to industrial capitalism.

-Growth of industrial capitalism= more middle class jobs

-Middle Class culture

-Reforms such as Social Gospel, role of women in the reforms, etc.

Articles: https://www.ushistory.org/us/38e.asp; https://www.ushistory.org/us/39c.asp

Politics in the Gilded Age

Key Concept: Explain continuities & changes in role of gov’t in economy.

Explain similarities & differences between political parties.

-Domestic laissez-faire policies vs. foreign economic policies

-Urban Politics (ex. political machines)

-Creation of Populist Party

Video: https://youtu.be/Spgdy3HkcSs

Summary Video of this time period: https://apclassroom.collegeboard.org/d/fs09d0aqsi?sui=1,6

“The Helping Hand”, Puck Magazine, Apr. 1911

http://simpsonapush.weebly.com/period-6-1865-1898.html