1. History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals
The Age of Innovation and Industry:
CS 10: The rise of corporations, heavy industry, mechanized farming and technological innovations transformed the American economy from an agrarian to an increasingly urban industrial society.

2. Total 11 Points +2 +2
Reason 1 = + 1
Reason 2 = + 1
Correct Line Graph + 5

3. Capitalism/Capitalist
Definition:
An economic system in which factories, and other means of production are privately owned rather than government controlled.
Capitalist:
Provided financial backing for scientific research and new machinery

4. Heavy Industry
Any industry that involves heavy products; large and heavy equipment and facilities, large machine tools, and huge buildings; or complex or numerous processes.
Then :
Steelmaking
Shipbuilding
Oil Refinery
Railroad/ locomotives
Mining

5. Heavy Industry NOW

6. The Bessemer Process
A new method of converting iron to steel patented by Henry Bessemer
Involved blowing air through molten iron which removed it’s impurities
This made steel harder, stronger, and lighter than iron making it more preferred
This process also aloud steel to be produced more cheaply and quickly

7. Mechanized Farming
From the beginning of America until the IR, the U.S. was an agrarian country using farm animals to do the work.

8. With the onset of the IR, even farming became heavily mechanized.
Result = less Farm labor = move to cities for work

9. Cite 1 piece of Evidence from your notes that would help to explain this trend!

10. Total 11 Points
+ 1
+ 1
+ 2
Correct Line Graph + 5
+ 2

11. Production Methods? Frederick Taylor:
Used scientific methods to analyze the production process
Time-and-motion studies
Determined the most efficient way to work quickly
Thus increasing productivity and profits

12. Small Group
List a few steps in the Industrialized fortune cookie making process.
For each step list a specific invention that was needed in order to complete that step of the process.

13. Industrial Growth
Key Factors: Capital – any asset that can be used to produce an income including money, buildings, tools, and/or machinery

14. Which Vocabulary Term does this image represent?

15. Industrial Growth
Corporations – a company that exists independently from the owners (investors)
Corporations would become known as “Big Business”
Unlike traditional businesses, big businesses were responsible to their investors and driven by profit.

16. Reducing Competition
Monopoly – Company that completely dominates a particular industry (Standard Oil)
Trusts – Set of companies managed by a small group to prevent them from competing with one another

17. Total +9
+ 1
+ 1
+ 1
+ 1
+ 5
Bonus +2

18. Total 11
+ 2
+ 2
+ 2
+ 5

19. Horizontal Integration
Definition:
A corporate expansion strategy.
Involves joining together as many firms from the same industry as possible.
John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil

20. Vertical Integration Definition: Corporate expansion strategy
Control of each step in the production and distribution of a product.
Acquiring raw materials to manufacturing, packaging, and shipping.

21. Laissez-Faire
Definition:
THE U.S. Economic Policy during the Age of Industrialization.
The idea that the GOVERNMENT does not need to REGULATE businesses.
free market, through supply and demand will regulate itself.

22. Pro’s and Con’s of Monopoly and L-F?
Owners are experts in their industry
$$$ will “Trickle Down”
Social Darwinism =
CON
Decrease Competition
Hurts Consumers
Higher Prices and Less Choice
Hurts Workers
Profit above Safety, Happiness, Job Security

23. According to the cartoon, how was the United States in the 1990s similar to the United States in the 1890s?

24. Time Warner Turner Network Television (TNT) Cartoon Network CNN
Castle Rock Entertainment
Turner Network Television (TNT)
Cartoon Network
Hanna - Barbera Cartoons
CNN
Warner Bros. Studios
Court TV
HBO
Movies
Movies
Television
CNN Radio
Time Warner
Radio
Cable Providers
Internet
Publishing
Road Runner
Time Warner Cable
Kablevision (53.75% - cable television in Hungary)
AOL Instant Messenger
Winamp
Fortune
Sunset Books
Time
Netscape
MapQuest
Sports Illustrated
Amazon.com (partial)
People Mag.

26. Crash Course New and Knew

27. CS 10: I CAN…
I can explain how the rise of corporations, heavy industry, mechanized farming and technological innovations transformed the American economy from an agrarian to an increasingly urban industrial society.
You MUST explain 3 of the 4 categories using at LEAST 1 different piece of evidence for each.

28. CS 11.A: I can…explain the major social and economic effects of industrialization on society.

29. America in the Gilded Age
To cover with or as if with a thin layer of gold to give an often deceptively attractive or improved appearance to
Coined by
Author Mark Twain
To describe US
In the Ind. Age

32. Industrialist: Good Guys or Bad Guys? (Entrepreneurs)
How were entrepreneurs of the Industrial Age viewed by society?

33. 1. Captain of Industry?!
A business leader whose way of achieving personal fortune contributes positively to the country in some way.
Providing Jobs
This can be through:
Increasing Production
Philanthropy

34. What is a Philanthropist?!
Someone who makes large charitable donations ($$) to improve the well-being of others.
Schools/ Universities
This is often to:
Hospitals/ Medicine
Libraries

35. What is a Robber Baron?!
A business man who dominated their industry and made huge fortunes through unfair, shady, ruthless business practices.
This was done by:
Treated workers poorly
Sometimes used illegal business practices
Eliminating smaller/weaker businesses

36. Andrew Carnegie: Controlled the steel Industry
Brought the Bessemer Process from England
-Steel production increased 500 times
-Workers went on STRIKE b/c of poor treatment and wages

37. Andrew Carnegie: Gospel of Wealth
“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.” 
“The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.”

38. John D. Rockefeller
Had a reputation as a Robber Baron

39. John D. Rockefeller
Tried to control all businesses in the oil industry
Sherman-Anti-Trust Act…S.C. declares Standard Oil a Monopoly

40. Cornelius Vanderbilt
Built a huge railroad empire through ruthless business tactics,
Had a reputation as a robber baron

41. Cornelius Vanderbilt
Left $1 million to Vanderbilt University after his death.
He is the 2nd wealthiest person in U.S. History

42. Videos Robber Barons Sing Pharrell’s Happy
Who are the richest Americans EVER?