Industrialization and Growth
Virginia SOL USII.3
Understand how industrialization changed life in rural and urban America after the Civil War.
What students need to be able to do
- Explain relationships among natural resources, transportation, and industrial development from 1865.
- Explain the impact of new inventions, the rise of big business, and changes to life on American farms.
- Evaluate the impact of the Progressive Movement on child labor, working conditions, organized labor, and social policies.
- Explain the events, factors, and motivations that caused migration to the United States in the late 19th century.
- Examine the cause-and-effect relationship between rapid population growth and city government services and infrastructure.
- Explain how governmental actions, such as the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, caused harm to Chinese Americans and other immigrants.
- Explain how various groups worked to alleviate issues facing new immigrants and how immigrants advocated for themselves.
- Describe the technological advances and the broader impact of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair on America's rise as a world leader.