1. Day 1 (Wednesday)
Industrialization

2. Bell Ringer: CNN Student News
*Open up Chrome – search for “CNN Student News” – play video

3. Industrial Boom in America, 1860-1915

4. Ch. 6: Key Terms *all of these terms appear in yellow throughout the presentation, and will be on the unit test
Laissez faire
Monopoly
Philanthropy
Robber Baron
Sherman Anti-trust Act
Trust
Social Darwinism
Urbanization
Alexander Graham Bell
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford
John D. Rockefeller
JP Morgan
Thomas Edison
Labor Unions
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

5. Quick Write 8/24/16 How has technology changed during your lifetime?
Get out your spiral notebooks, and write the following. Then spend a few minutes thinking and answering the question.
8/24/16
How has technology changed during your lifetime?
Technology of Yesterday (7min.)
*Hand out the Industrialism Guided Notes

6. Industrial Boom in America, Due to…
Wealth of natural resources
Government support of business
Growing urban populations
Cheap labor
Markets for new products

7. Edwin L Drake
Used the steam engine to remove oil from beneath the earth’s surface
Started oil boom in America
Gas started as waste by- product

8. Henry Bessemer
Created process which cleaned impurities from iron = creating steel
This created materials for things like railroads, and…

9. The Brooklyn Bridge Completed in 1883, it spanned 1595 feet
Called a wonder of the world due to its height and weight bearing structure

10. Skyscrapers
Allowed buildings to be built to astronomical heights because of the steel beams used in construction

11. Inventors Change the Landscape of America

12. Thomas Edison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlxVDdBtFQQ
Patented the light bulb in 1876
Invented a system for producing and distributing electric power, which led to…

13. Invention of time saving appliances because energy was so cheap and efficient
Electric streetcars spread cities out
Plants and factories no longer had to be near water

14. Inventions Change Lifestyles in America

15. Christopher Sholes
In 1867 invented the typewriter, which changed the way many people work

16. Alexander Graham Bell
Invention of the telephone in opened a worldwide communications network

17. Women became 40% of the clerical work force
Industrialization freed workers from back-breaking labor
By 1890 work day reduced to about 10 hours

18. Expansion of Industry Leads to Boom in Big Business

19. Instituted new management practices such as…
Andrew Carnegie
One of 1st Industrial moguls to make his own fortune – in the steel industry
Instituted new management practices such as…

20. Horizontal Integration
Vertical Integration
Bought out suppliers
Controlled Raw Materials and Transportation
Horizontal Integration
Bought out companies producing similar products
Controlled the whole industry
*Pass out the video notes worksheet

21. SHORT BREAK
Students may take a 5 minute break, then continue notes on next slide

22. Film: “The Men Who Built America” (episode 1) – click title above
Film: “The Men Who Built America” (episode 1) – click title above *As you watch fill out the video notes handout – students will turn in to basket after video is finished

23. Start Section 2 next class

24. Day 2 (Friday)
Industrialization

25. Quick Write
Get out your spiral notebooks, and write the following. Then spend a few minutes thinking and answering the question.
8/26/14
What is meant by the quote: “Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration”?
- Thomas Edison
Discuss responses
*Get out “The Men Who Built America” handout

26. Film: “The Men Who Built America” (start at 29 minutes) – click title above *As you watch fill out the video notes handout – students will turn in to basket after video is finished

27. SHORT BREAK
Students may take a 3 minute break (inside the classroom only – only individuals that talk to you can leave for water)
Students can get out their “Industrialism Speed notes” on next slide

28. Success and failure in business governed by natural law
Social Darwinism
Success and failure in business governed by natural law
“Survival of the fittest”
Justifies “laissez-faire,” or “allow to do.” Keeps government out of marketplace

29. Social Darwinism
Is there a problem with this idea?

30. Industrialist
A person involved in the ownership and management of industry

32. Big business created more than 4000 millionaires since the Civil War
Appealed to Protestant work ethic
Riches = God’s favor
Poor = Lazy and inferior

33. Mergers Monopolies Industrialists pursued buying out competitors
When industries buy out all competitors and completely control industry
Allows them to set wages, prices, and production

34. On a piece of computer paper...
Invention Assignment – 30 minutes
Get a green textbook
Look at the timeline on page 249 and choose an invention that you find had the greatest impact on society.
Draw your chosen invention – use color (located in front
of my desk) – leave room for your paragraphs
In 2-3 paragraphs answer the questions:
What was the invention’s impact on society? Give reasons to justify your choice.
Applications of the invention
Impact on daily lives
Effects on the workplace
*Students may use textbooks, and phones to aid in this assignment – write down names of students who are using phones for other purposes
**Students may need Tuesday to finish, and will hold onto these until I get back

35. Start Section 3 next class

36. Day 3 (Tuesday) Industrialization
**finish anything from last class first (i.e. Invention assignment – (first 15 minutes if necessary)

37. Bell Ringer: CNN Student News
*Open up Chrome – search for “CNN Student News” – play video

38. Announcements Very brief Quiz to start the day NEXT TUESDAY
Study Notes:
People:
Carnegie
Rockefeller
Edison
Vanderbilt
JP Morgan
Concepts:
Industrialist
Social Darwinism
Monopolies

39. Industrialism Speed Notes (continued)
Holding Companies
Set up specifically to buy out stock of competitors

40. Joined companies in trust agreements
John D Rockefeller
Owned Standard Oil Co.
Joined companies in trust agreements
Stocks in companies held by trustees and ran as one business
Not legal

41. Drove companies out of business by selling below production cost, then jacking up prices
Called “Robber Barons” for such tactics

43. JP Morgan
A banker who headed up US Steel, which eventually bought out Carnegie Steel

44. Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890
Made it illegal to form trusts that interfered with trade
Hard to uphold because it didn’t define what a “trust” was

45. What about the South?
While all this growth and expansion happened in the North, the South was left out.
Why do you think that was?

46. SHORT BREAK
Students may take a 3 minute break (inside the classroom only – only individuals that talk to you can leave for water)
Teacher: Pass out the atlas assignment - “Becoming an industrial nation

47. Assignment: “Becoming an Industrial Nation”
Teacher: pass out the “Becoming an Industrial Nation” worksheet
Students: Get an Atlas from on top of the bookshelves in the back of the room
You may have to share
Using the Atlas, complete the worksheet
DUE at the end of class period

48. Film: “The Men Who Built America” (if time permits - begin episode 3) – click title above

49. Start Section 3 next class

50. Day 4 (Thursday)
Industrialization

51. Bell Ringer: CNN Student News
*Open up Chrome – search for “CNN Student News” – play video

52. Quick Write
Get out your spiral notebooks, and write the following. Then spend a few minutes thinking and answering the question.
9/1/16
How would you convince school officials to change a policy?
Discuss responses

53. Industrialism Speed Notes (continued) Exploitation and Unsafe Working Conditions Draw People Together in Labor Movement

54. Statistics
By 1882, and average 675 people killed in work-related accidents
Wages so low, most families had to send everyone out to get jobs

55. 20% of boys and 10% of girls under age 15 held jobs
By 1899 women averaged $267 per year, men $498, and Carnegie $23 million not taxed
Sweatshops were unregulated
Paid about $.27 for a child’s 14 hour day

56. American Workers Start Organizing

57. Samuel Gompers
Organized skilled workers in the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Used strikes to get higher wages, and better hours and conditions

58. The AFL was successful in many ways
Over the course of 15 years, the average wages rose from $ to $24.00
Over the same time period, hours decreased from 54.5 hours to 49 per week

59. Eugene V Debs
Organized skilled and unskilled workers into the American Railway Union (ARU)
Had a huge membership

60. Socialism
Labor activists like Debs wanted government control of industry and equal distribution of wealth – not the overthrow of capitalism

61. Radicals
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or “Wobblies”) pushed for socialism including the downfall of capitalism

62. Immigrant workers such as Japanese and Mexicans organized as well
Other Movements
Immigrant workers such as Japanese and Mexicans organized as well
This increased labor movements
This increased tensions between management and labor

63. Women’s Roles Women were banned from most unions
They held a great deal of influence by backing specific labor leaders to demand wages, an end to child labor, and better working conditions

64. Supported the Great Strike of 1877, as well as many others
Mary Harris Jones
Supported the Great Strike of 1877, as well as many others
Endured threats and jail
Nicknamed “Mother”

65. “Mother” Jones led a march in 1903 of 80 mill children, many injured from factories, to the home of Theodore Roosevelt.
Influenced passage of child labor laws

66. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
More than 146 women died in fire
Company had locked all doors to prevent theft

67. When factory owners acquitted of the deaths, the public was outraged
This tragedy led to the establishment of a task force to study factory working conditions

70. Management tried to stop unionizing by:
Management vs Unions
Management tried to stop unionizing by:
Forbidding union meetings
Firing union members
Forcing employees to sign “Yellow dog Contracts”

71. Courts punished unions using the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Courts vs Unions
Courts punished unions using the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Said unions were interrupting trade

72. The Century: America’s Time - click title above