Chapter 8 Lesson 1 “The Rise of Big Businesses” pgs. 258-263 EQ: Describe the impact on American life of the Wright brothers (flight), George Washington Carver (science), Alexander Graham Bell (communication), and Thomas Edison (electricity).

5th Grade Social Studies Standards SS5H3 The student will describe how life changed in America at the turn of the century. b. Describe the impact on American life of the Wright brothers (flight), George Washington Carver (science), Alexander Graham Bell (communication), and Thomas Edison (electricity). d. Describe the reasons people emigrated to the United States, from where they emigrated, and where they settled. SS5G2 The student will explain the reasons for the spatial patterns of economic activities. Explain how factor such as population, transportation, and resources influenced industrial location in the United States between the end of the Civil War and 1900. b. Locate primary agricultural and industrial locations since the turn of the 20th century and explain how factors such as population, transportation, and resources have influenced these areas.

5th Grade Social Studies Standards SS5E3 The student will describe how consumers and businesses interact in the United States economy across time. b. Describe how people earn income by selling their labor to businesses. c. Describe how entrepreneurs take risks to develop new goods and services to start a business. SS5CG3 The student will explain how amendments to the U.S. Constitution have maintained a representative democracy. Explain the purpose of the 12th and 17th amendments. Explain how voting rights were protected by the 15th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, and 26th amendments.

Big Business and Big Cities Vocabulary Preview

Lesson 1: The Rise of Big Business Vocabulary Corporation Competition Monopoly Labor union strike Essential Questions: How did inventions impact American life in the late 1800s and early 1900s? EQ: Who are entrepreneurs? (Discuss the risks they take to develop new goods and services when they start a business.)

Thomas Edison Watch Animated Heroes: United Streaming

Invention List

Watch Animated Hero Series on Alexander Graham Bell

Stocks and Shares

Bessemer Process

Description of the Cartoon Above Political Cartoon illustrating John D. Rockefeller’s Monopoly of the Oil Business.

Watch Inventions and Industry and Big Business and Corruption in Unit Folder

Lesson 2: Immigration in America Vocabulary Persecution Ethnic group tenement Essential Questions: Why did people immigrate to the United States, from where did they come and where did they settle?

Study Guide

http://teacher.scholastic.com/ACTIVITIES/IMMIGRATION/

Angel Island Photo Gallery Ellis Island Photo Gallery

Immigration Video

Immigration

Primary Documents What do you think these people are doing? Discuss it with your table. Immigrants Waiting to be Passed For Entry Into the United States, Ellis Island, New York.

Would you be able to pass this test in order to become a US citizen? http://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/learners/study-test/study-materials-civics-test/100-civics-questions-and-answers-mp3-audio-english-version

Ethnic Neighborhoods

Tenement Lifestyle

Lesson 3: Growing Cities Vocabulary stockyard skyscraper rapid transit slum settlement house Essential Question: How did factors such as population, transportation, and resources influence industrial location in the United States between the end of the Civil War and 1900?

Study Guide

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjcYCrw5big

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blskyscapers.htm

Lesson 4: Time of Reform Essential Questions: Vocabulary progressives muckraker Essential Questions: Why were progressives important to millions of people in the United States? What is the purpose of the 12th and 17th amendments to the U. S. Constitution?

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Let a man so much as scrape his finger pushing a truck in the pickle-rooms, and he might have a sore that would put him out of the world; all the joints in his fingers might be eaten by the acid, one by one. -Upton Sinclair (The Jungle)

Be a Muckraker http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=progressives+early+1900s *muckraker news reporter

Women's Suffrage

Suffrage Song Susan B. Anthony Women's rights activist Susan Brownell Anthony was a prominent American civil rights leader and feminist who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States.