1. Prompt #1
What technology has revolutionized the world after 1950? Explain why. (Try and think beyond the obvious.)

2. What could the suffix, “-zation” mean?
Commonalities?
Civilization
Organization
Fossilization
Dramatization
Capitalization
What could the suffix, “-zation” mean?

3. Come up with a definition for “industrialization”.

4. Technology Talk-to-the-Text
Read and annotate your information
Once you have completed that, come up with two questions you could ask about your topic

5. Technologies With your group: With your new reading:
Discuss the main points of your reading
Share your questions and choose your five (5) best questions
Write those questions on the color paper (leave space)
With your new reading: T4
Answer the questions for your reading with your group

6. Constitution Day!
Amendment Speeches

7. Technologies Chart Bessemer Process Oil Railroads Electricity
Telegraph
Telephone

8. Bessemer Process

9. Oil

10. Railroad

11. Electricity

12. Telegraph

13. Telephone

14. Partner Tech Impact Share
On the back of your IR Technology Drawing, choose a technology you feel had the greatest impact at this time and explain why.

15. What do you think the term “robber baron” means?
Prompt #2
What do you think the term “robber baron” means?
What do you think the term “captain of industry” means?

16. Robber Baron vs. Captain of Industry
Robber baron  business leader that built their fortune by stealing from the public; drained resources, bent laws, drove competitors to ruin, and treated their workers poorly
Captains of industry  business leader served their nation in a positive way; increased the supply of goods, created jobs, and established public services (i.e., libraries, museums, universities)

17. Business Leaders
Read about one of two big business leaders during this time period
As you read, Talk to the Text (4Ts) as a pair
Then, decide if you think your business leader is a “robber baron” or a “captain of industry”
On the back of your reading, write a paragraph explaining why your business leader is a “robber baron” or a “captain of industry”

18. Take out Homework & Notebook

19. Robber Baron vs. Captain of Industry
Robber baron  business leader that built their fortune by stealing from the public; drained resources, bent laws, drove competitors to ruin, and treated their workers poorly
Captains of industry  business leader served their nation in a positive way; increased the supply of goods, created jobs, and established public services (i.e., libraries, museums, universities)

20. Rockefeller & Carnegie
Capt. Of Ind.
R.B.

21. Social Darwinism
Popular belief during the late 1800s
Based on Darwin’s theory that evolution depended on “survival of the fittest”
Free market will let the best rise to the top of society

22. Major Industrialists

23. Fast Food Frenzy **cost to make a burger = $1.00
Petito’s Burgers
$1.25  $1.10
GregDonalds
$1.20  $1.50
Bank’s Burgers
$2.00  $.99 5 3 13 4 16

24. Horizontal Consolidation
Merger—buy out other companies
Trust—managing board runs separate companies as one large corporation

25. What is a monopoly and how does it get created?

26. Fast Food Frenzy (cont.)

27. Fast Food Frenzy **cost to make a burger = $1.00
Petito’s Burgers
$1.25  $1.10
GregDonalds
$1.20  $1.50
Bank’s Burgers
$2.00  $1.25 5 3 13 4 16

28. Vertical Consolidation
Putting together companies from DIFFERENT industries
Buy out suppliers in order to control the quality & price

29. What were some effects of the creation of monopolies?
Prompt #3
What were some effects of the creation of monopolies?

30. Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
Government response
Monopolies were illegal
Really hard to enforce though so government eventually stopped trying

31. Do you think we have any monopolies today?

32. Goodies Simulation

33. Fast Food Frenzy **cost to make a burger = $1.00
The Better Burger - $1.50
 $0.90
Burger Queen - $2.50
 $1.01
Zack’s Amazing High-Quality 5 Star Burgers - $5.00  $0.80  $5 10 1 8 17

34. Fast Food Frenzy **cost to make a burger = $1.00
Burger Bell - $1.50  $0.99  $1.50
South Lyon Burgers - $1.01  $1.15
Cow Burgers - $1.45  $1.10 4 23 22 8 3