1. Knights Charge 2/5
What were three reasons that helped the US be an industrial nation?
What was the Bessemer Process?
What was urbanization?
Where did many working class people live in these cities?
What national park was created to help protect the environment?

2. State Challenge
Take out a sheet o paper and see if you can list all of the 50 states without looking at a map… No cheating!
Now that you have the states… see if you can remember all of the 50 capitals of those states…

4. The Rise of Big Business

5. Focusing Points
Identify different “Robber Barons” of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Describe the achievements of the “Robber Barons”
Analyze whether the “Robber Barons were a good or bad thing for America

6. Corporations
Due to the increase in ability to transport goods and expanding markets, more people could become involved in the nation’s economy.
Corporation- group of investors that would share ownerships of a business

7. Examples today

8. Gaining a Competitive Edge
In order to gain more profit, some corporations would attempt to gain a monopoly on a certain good
Monopoly- complete control of a product or service
How could this impact the public?

9. Vertical vs. Horizontal Integration
Horizontal Integration- Buying out other companies
Vertical Integration- Buying out suppliers

11. Trusts
Trust- companies combine their stock in order to gain profit for all involved
Formed so that just a few people could control all of the industries and reduce competition.

12. John D. Rockefeller & Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller- oil
Andrew Carnegie- steel

13. Robber Barons
These men were known as Robber Barons (industrial leader of great wealth)
People disagreed with some of their business practices
Felt the men mistreated their workers and took advantage of the situation to get ahead.

14. Social Darwinism
Some believed that wealth was only for those who were most “fit”
People used Social Darwinism to justify how only the strong were able to become rich

15. Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth
Gospel of Wealth- theory that the wealthy have a moral obligation to help the poor
providing them opportunities to better themselves

16. John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil
Standard Oil was a trust that gave Rockefeller control of nearly 90% of the nation’s oil industry

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19. Pullman Towns

20. Row houses

21. Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?
Were the following images/documents evidence that the moguls of the late 1800’s were Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?

22. Robber Barons or Captains of Industry? Why?

23. Robber Barons or Captains of Industry? Why?

24. Robber Barons or Captains of Industry? Why?

25. Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?
In an ACES Paragraph, write if you believe the entrepreneurs that we have talked about in class from the Gilded Ages positive (Captain of Industry) or negative (Robber Barons). Please use one of the Documents to support your answer. Remember:
A-Answer the question
C- Cite your evidence (Use Document here)
E- Explain your answer
S-Summarize your argument