1. Bellringer on whiteboards
Bellringer on whiteboards
Notes on Captains of Industry or Robber Barons
Faces of Youth pictures-Headlines activity
Exit slip

2. Bellringer
You are going to see a different image on each of the next 4 slides.
Write down the first thing you see on each slide.
ABSOLUTELY NO TALKING, LAUGHING, ETC. OR SHARING OF ANSWERS!

7. POV (Point of View)
On your whiteboard, describe how two people can have a totally different point of view on the same issue. Provide a modern day example…

8. POV (Point of View) Analysis -take a guess and answer each of these questions below on the whiteboard
A) How do organized labor (unions) and “big business” (ownership) points of view differ from one another?
B) How do organized labor and big business get along today?

9. Robber Barons?

10. The Capitalists:
Group of people that believed in American Economic system, Capitalism
Capitalism: an economic system based on private ownership of capital (land, labor, goods)
Goal: Make as much money as possible

11. ‘Captains’ of Industry
John D. Rockefeller
Owner of Standard Oil
Gave $250 Million
Hospitals
Training doctors to help the poor
Leland Stanford
Railroad Tycoon (West)
Stanford University

12. ‘Captains’ of Industry
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Railroad Tycoon (East)
Vanderbilt University
James Buchanan Duke
American Tobacco
University
Non-profit hospitals to help the poor

13. ‘Captains’ of Industry
Andrew Carnegie
Owner of U.S. Steel
Universities
Libraries
World Court in the Netherlands
J.P. Morgan
Banker
Discuss at your table: What do each of these businesses/people have in common?

14. Achievements/Commonalities:
Job providers
Developed infrastructure for nation to grow
Banks-loans
Steel-building blocks for industry
Oil-fuel
Railroads-transportation

15. Carnegie: Knew that America (and the world) needed steel
built steel industry in Pittsburgh, PA
Utilized the Bessemer Process to mass produce steel
1860 –few thousand tons of steel a year
1900-few million tons a year could be produced

16. Carnegie’s Philanthropy Philosophy
Don't spoil your heirs. A) Carnegie believed inherited wealth spoiled the heirs. "I should as soon leave to my son a curse as the almighty dollar," he said.
Help those willing to help themselves. C) "It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than so spent as to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy," Carnegie wrote.
For Carnegie, himself a self-educated man, libraries seemed the ideal gift. They appealed to his bootstrap sensibility for self-improvement.

17. Answer on your whiteboard: What title would fit Vanderbilt, Stanford, or Carnegie’s point of view?
Captains of Industry
The Lucky
Slave drivers
Robber Barons

18. Now let’s consider labor…
Discuss as a group and answer on your whiteboard:
What would you expect working conditions to be in the 1870s?
Give examples of working conditions.

19. Working Conditions 7 day work week No vacation No sick days
12 hours a day
No vacation
No sick days
No reimbursement for injuries
Whiteboards:
How do you think laborers would respond to these working conditions?
What effect would the captains of industries lavish lifestyles have on these people’s POV? Why?

20. Answer on your whiteboard: According to the chart what is happening to organized labor at this time?
No growth
Growing slowly
Growing
Growing Rapidly
Membership numbers

21. What trends do you notice?

23. Organized Labor Samuel Gompers-craft unions
Eugene V Debs-Railway unions
Fought for better working conditions
Many were socialists
Despised capitalism
Too much disparity in wealth
“Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.”
Samuel Gompers

24. What would someone that supports the organized labor’s POV call men like Vanderbilt, Carnegie, or Rockefeller?
Captains of Industry
Providers to the needy
Knights in white armor
Robber Barons

25. Answer on your whiteboard: What does the man symbolize?
Organized Labor
A Strong Government that has influence over big business
Big Business and its control over Govt.
Foreign influence

26. Answer on your whiteboard: Whose point of view is being conveyed in this image?
A neutral politician
Big Business
Organized Labor
Foreign Investors

27. POV (Point of View)

28. 4 Reasons Why Unions at an All-Time Low article
Faces of Youth slide show & reaction

29. Carnegie : Captain of Industry or Robber Baron?
Construct this chart in your notes (LEFT SIDE)
Big Business Leadership- Carnegie
Organized Laborers-Steel Walkers

30. In the Chart
In your chart make as many observations of the characteristics the big business owner (Andrew Carnegie) and the men who built the skyscrapers as well as what you know about factory workers had at the turn of the century.