Alabama Social Studies SS24.US1.16
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Describe the transformation of American society and politics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 16a Analyze how the growing awareness of economic and political corruption during the Gilded Age led to reform efforts on both state and national levels. 16b Describe the changes in American society that resulted from the inventions and innovations of business leaders, entrepreneurs, and inventors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
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SS24.US1.16 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.
- SS24.US1.16a
Analyze how the growing awareness of economic and political corruption during the Gilded Age led to reform efforts on both state and national levels.
- SS24.US1.16b
Describe the changes in American society that resulted from the inventions and innovations of business leaders, entrepreneurs, and inventors of the late ninetee...
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What This Cluster Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students connect bribery, patronage, and railroad abuses to state and federal reforms. They explain how inventions such as the telephone and electric light changed work and daily life.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can link vote buying to state secret ballots and federal patronage to civil service exams. They can explain how electric lighting extended store hours or assembly lines lowered car prices.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may confuse political machines with business trusts, or mix up state reforms and federal laws. They may assume new inventions reached every household right away.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Name one Gilded Age abuse and a state or federal reform aimed at it. Name one invention and explain one change it brought to work or daily life.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs cards showing vote buying, patronage, state secret ballots, and federal civil service exams; have them match each abuse to a reform.
Read a 1900 telephone ad aloud; ask students to write how calling instead of sending a letter changed a shop's orders.
Run a matching game with cards for Bell, Edison, Ford, their inventions, and changes those inventions brought to work or home life.
Compare a 1900 mail order catalog page with an online store listing; have students circle differences in ordering and delivery.
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Related Standards
- SS24.US1.20b
Describe the political reforms passed during the Progressive Era.
- SS24.US1.6
Evaluate the influence of American social and political reform on the emergence of a national identity from the early to mid-nineteenth century.
- SS24.US2.3
Evaluate how key figures, events, and trends shaped United States society and culture from the conclusion of World War I through the 1920s.
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