STANDARD: US.1 Explain patterns of agricultural and industrial development as they relate to climate, use of natural resources, markets and trade, the growth of major urban areas, and describe the geographic considerations that led to the location of specialized industries such as textiles, automobiles, and steel.
STANDARD: US.2 Summarize the major developments in Tennessee during the Reconstruction era, including the Constitutional Convention of 1870, the yellow fever epidemic of 1878, and the election of African-Americans to the General Assembly.
STANDARD: US.3 Explain the impact of the Hayes-Tilden Presidential election of 1876 and the end of Reconstruction on African Americans, including Jim Crow laws, lynching, disenfranchisement methods, efforts of Pap Singleton and the Exodusters.
STANDARD: US.4 Analyze the causes and consequences of Gilded Age politics and economics, including the rise of political machines, major scandals, civil service reform, and the economic difference between farmers, wage earners, and industrial capitalists, including the following: ● Boss Tweed & Thomas Nast ● Credit Mobilier ● Whiskey Ring ● Garfield’s assassination ● Pendleton Act ● Interstate Commerce Act
STANDARD: US.5 Analyze the controversy that arose over the currency system in the late 1800’s, including the impact of gold and silver strikes in the West, the contrasting views of farmers and industrialists, the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890, the Gold Crisis during the Cleveland administration, and an analysis of William Jennings Bryan’s "Cross of Gold" speech.
STANDARD: US.6 Describe the changes in American life that resulted from the inventions and innovations of business leaders and entrepreneurs of the period: Henry Bessemer, George Pullman, Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Swift and Armour.
STANDARD: US.7 Analyze the movement of people from rural to urban areas as a result of industrialization.
STANDARD: US.8 Evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media as in the political cartoons of Thomas Nast and others during the Gilded Age.
STANDARD: US.9 Describe the difference between “old” and “new” immigrants and analyze the assimilation process and consequences for the “new” immigrants and their impact on American society, including ethnic clusters, competition for jobs, rise of nativism, the work of Jane Addams, the documentation of living conditions by Jacob Riis, the Chinese Exclusion Acts, and the Gentlemen’s Agreement.