1. First Four 2/9/17 Organize the following into categories
Pintz, football, HOSA, volleyball, InterAct, Gabriel, Student Council, soccer, Anderson, cross country, Gavigan, Model UN
Give a name to each category
Give a title that could apply to all of your groups
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2. End Four Minutes First Four Chart Date & label your work
2/7/17
Identify a new technology & explain how it has changed American life.
What downside could there be from this new technology? In other words, have we lost something in gaining the technology?
Keep this with all of your other First Four work.
Four Minutes
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3. Questions for Discussion
Read your question with your group.
Think of the impacts, not just on individuals, but on society as a whole.
Discuss your thoughts & see if you can agree on a conclusion or a response.
Be prepared to share with the class.

4. Group Discussion Questions
Can some people be too rich?
Can a business be too big?
What role should the government play in regulating the economy, if any?
Should the US limit immigration?
What are the benefits of technological progress? What might be some of the costs?
Should the US government regulate moral behavior – alcohol, obscenity, movies, sexual conduct, gambling, etc.
What should the government do, if anything, to maximize our freedom but also to protect equality?

5. Group Discussion Questions
Why are these questions so hard to answer?
What core values of “America” do they challenge?
Freedom?
Equality?
Order?

6. The Gilded Age & The Progressive Era
Unit Questions:
What is the cost of progress?
What do we value?

7. What do you see? What is the message?

8. Documents Read the poem, “The New Colossus.”
What is this about?
What values does it represent?
Read the Chinese Exclusion Act
How does it compare to the poem?

9. Why were the 1870s and 1880s decades of rapid industrialization?
Civil War
Land
Transportation
Population
Role of Govt
Technology
Business Innovations
What vocabulary, examples & descriptions could you use with each?
Groups investigate & report to class.

10. The Gospel of Wealth Andrew Carnegie 1889
What does Carnegie say is the problem of the age? What does he mean?
According to Carnegie, what is the outcome of an economic system where a few people accumulate great wealth?
What does Carnegie say that wealthy people should do with their fortunes? Why?

11. Why were the 1870s and 1880s decades of rapid industrialization?
Civil War
Land
Transportation
Population
Role of Govt
Technology
Business Innovations
Essay Prep Sheets
Be ready to share
What vocabulary, examples & descriptions could you use with each?

12. GQ #2 - How great were the economic and social consequences of rapid industrialization in the late nineteenth century?
What is the invention?
Make a list of the significant changes this brought – economically and/or socially
Is there a “price” for this? What if anything is “lost”?

13. Business vs. Labor

14. Business vs. Labor Businesses making big $$$ Technology & inventions
Unfair practices
Effects
Economic boom for some
Many people exploited

15. Working Conditions Low Pay Long hours Unsafe conditions
1899: men $498/yr, women $267
Carnegie: $23 Million - Disparity of Wealth
Long hours
12-14 hrs – 6-7 days a week
Unsafe conditions
1882: 675 killed per week

16. Working Conditions Child Labor No benefits Sweatshops - unsafe
Triangle Shirtwaist Co. 1911
146 killed

17. Labor Unions Goals Tactics AFL – Samuel Gompers
Industrial Workers of the World
“Big Bill” Haywood
Advocated Socialism
Contrast with “bread & butter unionism”

18. Reaction to Unions Business Government Violent Strikes
Haymarket Square – 1877
Public opinion?
Sherman Antitrust Act used against them
Homestead Strike 1892
Pullman Strike 1894

19. Effects of Unions Pro-business environment hurt them
Still around today
Many reforms brought by unions

20. Quiz 1.What was the average pay for women in 1899 ?
2. How many people were killed per week in factories in 1882?
3. Why did 146 people die at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company?
4. Who was Samuel Gompers?
5. Public opinion turned against unions after what incident in 1877?

21. Paper 2 Part B
How great were the changes in the US economy during the late 1800s?