1. Labor Union Chart: UnionGoalsLeadersIncluded/ excluded Downfall? National Labor Union (NLU) Knights of Labor American Federation of Labor (AFL)

2. 24 Industry Comes of Age 1865-1900

3. Essential Questions Explain how the transcontinental railroad network provided the basis for an integrated national market and the great post-Civil War industrial transformation. Assess how industrialists attempted to justify their socio-economic situations, and how the government reacted. Analyze how workers responded to the new conditions brought by industrialization.

4. Railroads

6. Industry & Technology

9. The growth of corporations encouraged inventions and technological growth, It also changed the workplace and worker’s experience, both negatively and positively

10. New Ideas of Unity

11. Life was changing, becoming more global, because of transportation and communication innovations.

12. Discuss Explain how the transcontinental railroad network provided the basis for an integrated national market and the great post-Civil War industrial transformation.

13. The World Viewed

15. The Gospel of Wealth according to Russell Conwell I say that you ought to get rich, and it is your duty to get rich. How many of my pious brethren say to me, “Do you, a Christian minister, spend your time going up and down the country advising young people to get rich, to get money?” "Yes, of course I do.“ They say, ”Isn’t that awful! Why don’t you preach the gospel instead of preaching about man’s making money?“ "Because to make money honestly is to preach the gospel.” That is the reason. The men who get rich may be the most honest men you find in the community.

16. Cont’d “Oh,” but says some young man here to-night, “I have been told all my life that if a person has money he is very dishonest and dishonorable and mean and contemptible.” My friend, that is the reason why you have none, because you have that idea of people. The foundation of your faith is altogether false. Let me say here clearly, and say it briefly, though subject to discussion which I have not time for here, ninety- eight out of one hundred of the rich men of America are honest. That is why they are rich. That is why they are trusted with money. That is why they carry on great enterprises and find plenty of people to work with them. It is because they are honest men.

17. The World Viewed New developments in science and the economy were difficult to reconcile with traditional ideas of religion, and therefore various approaches were created.

18. Discuss Assess how industrialists attempted to justify their socio-economic situations, and how the government reacted.

19. Labor Uniting

23. The changing economic system and its influence on national politics  unions and workers wanting to regain control over their work Unions formed to promote social and economic change The Knights of Labor and AF of L were examples of unions with different membership yet similar goals, especially the 8 hour work day

24. Unions’ Political Efforts

27. Despite popular support in the working classes, strikes scared the middle classes because of the perceived threat of anarchy Upper classes didn’t support strikes because success would have taken power from them Therefore, the government used all of its power to suppress labor uprisings

28. Discuss What is more important, protecting a workers’ ability to strike, or a bystander’s ability to go about his normal day without a strike affecting him?

29. Strike Chart StrikeCausesEffects Great Railroad Strike (1877) Great Southwest Railroad Strike (1886) Homestead Strike (1892) Pullman Strike (1894)

30. Discuss Analyze how workers responded to the new conditions brought by industrialization.