Year 11 ATAR Modern History Unit 1
The Rise of Capitalism
GENERAL RESOURCES
Clements, P. (2008). Prosperity, depression and the New Deal: the USA 1890–1954 (4th ed.). Hodder Education.
Ladenburg, T. (2007). Unit 7 business regulation case study: Standard Oil. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/teachers/lesson_plans/pdfs/unit7.pdf
iMater Academy. (n.d.). The United States industrializes. https://www.imater.org/ourpages/auto/2014/9/15/56245503/chp3_1.pdf
This short document summarises how the United States was able to grow during the Reconstruction period and the Gilded Age.
Llewellyn, J., Southey, J., & Thompson, S. (2017). Capitalist America. https://alphahistory.com/coldwar/capitalist-america/
EXPANSION OF THE RAILWAYS
Betz, D., Hochfelder, D., Koeppel, G, Libson, S., Livie, K. Matzko, P., … Young, K. (2018). Life in industrial America. http://www.americanyawp.com/text/18-industrial-america/
CrashCourse. (2013, July 26). The industrial economy [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6tRp-zRUJs
Danzer, G. (2006). The age of the railroads. In The Americans (pp. 236-240). McDougal Littell.
The effect of the railroads on American life. (2018). https://teenkidsnews.com/tkn-news/careers/the-effect-of-railroads-on-american-life/
Kelly, M. (2019). Effect of railroads on the United States. https://www.thoughtco.com/effect-of-railroads-on-the-united-states-104724
Nardo, D. (2009). The industrial revolution in the United States. Lucent.
White, R. (n.d.). Transcontinental railroads: compressing time and space. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now
THE HOMESTEAD ACT
Cook, S. (2019). The hidden legacy of the Homestead Act. https://www.magellantv.com/articles/the-hidden-legacy-of-the-homestead-act
Homestead Act. (2019). https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/homestead-act.
This page gives brief information about the Homestead Act and provides primary source material.
INDUSTRIALISATION
Danzer, G. (2006). Big Business. In The Americans (pp. 230-235). McDougal Littell.
Danzer, G. (2006). The expansion of industry. In The Americans (pp. 230-235). McDougal Littell.
Engelman, R. (2015). The second Industrial Revolution. http://ushistoryscene.com/article/second-industrial-revolution/
Mathus, D. (n.d.). To what extent did the Industrial Revolution change American social, economic & political life?. https://education.seattlepi.com/extent-did-industrial-revolution-change-american-social-economic-political-life-6960.html
Niiler, E. (2019). How the Second Industrial Revolution changed Americans’ lives. https://www.history.com/news/second-industrial-revolution-advances
OpenStax CNX. (2019). Industrialization and the rise of big business, 1870-1900. https://cnx.org/contents/p7ovuIkl@9.5:WYjWa67J@6/Introduction
The Second Industrial Revolution. (n.d.). https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-ushistory/chapter/the-second-industrial-revolution/
White, R. (n.d.). The rise of industrial America, 1877-1900. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now/rise-industrial-america-1877-1900
MANIFEST DESTINY
Bennett, E., Cassidy, M., Grandage, J., Lightfoot, G., Melendez, J.J.P., Moore, J., … Wright, B. (2018). Manifest destiny. http://www.americanyawp.com/text/12-manifest-destiny/
Manifest destiny. (n.d.).https://www.newspapers.com/topics/westward-expansion/manifest-destiny/
Mountjoy, S. (2017). Manifest destiny: westward expansion. Chelsea House.
MASS IMMIGRATION & IMMIGRANT LABOUR
MASS PRODUCTION
Post-Civil War Reconstruction
Browning, P., & Walsh-Atkins, P. (2013). History of the USA 1840-1941: Cambridge International AS level. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
CrashCourse. (2013, July 19). Reconstruction and 1876 [Video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nowsS7pMApI&t=246s
Carlisle, R. P.(Ed.). (2018). The Civil War and reconstruction, 1860 to 1876.Facts on File.
Farmer, A. (2015). America: civil war and westward expansion 1803-90. (Fifth edition). Hodder Education.
Foner, F. (2018). Reconstruction. In Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/event/Reconstruction-United-States-history
Kennedy, D. M., Cohen, L., & Piehl, M. (2016). The ordeal of restruction 1865-1877. In The brief American pageant: a history of the republic. Volume II, Since 1865. (Ninth edition) (pp. 347-363). Australia: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Reconstruction. (n.d.). The American Yawp. https://www.americanyawp.com/text/15-reconstruction/
Reconstruction. (2009, October 29). History. https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/reconstruction
Waugh, S., Clements, P., & Wright, J. (2015). USA 1865-1975: the making of a superpower. Hodder Education.