Industrial

Revolution in
America
Week 1 :

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Contributing
factors
Significance and
effects on
inventions and
innovations
Effects of
urbanization on
ethnic and
religious groups
Push/pull factors
of immigration
Effects on the
environment
Impact of
Transportation
and
communication
on growth,
development,
and urbanization
How did it affect
daily life?
Regional
differences
Agrarian vs
Manufacturing

AMERICAN PROGRESS
Week 2:

Westward Expansion
Manifest
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Destiny
Causes & Effects
What role did belief play?
Causes & Effects of Mexican
American War
Significance of land
acquisition during this time
period.
Geography
Trails
Transcontinental Railroad
Economics
Population distribution
Settlement patterns
Positive and negative
consequences of human
modification on the
environment.
Contributions of Immigrant
groups
Conflicts with Native
Americans

Second Great
Awakening

Reform
Movements

Week 3:

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Week 4:

Responsibility for
moral improvement
of society
Spiritual equality
translates into social
and political equality
Women as leaders
Creation and growth
of new Christian
denominations
Transcendentalism

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Influences on
Reform
o Impact of Women
on reform
movements
o Impact of religion
on reform
o Lasting effects of
reform movements
o Significant
Individuals
o Hudson River
School (landscape
paintings of the
west)
o Literature
(Thoreau and
Emerson) Civil
Disobedience
o Science- John
James Audubon
founded the
science of
ornithology or
study of birds.
o Educational reform
o Prison reform
Temperance
movement
Womens Rights
Care of the disabled
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