1. Chapter 6
A New Industrial Age

2. Questions
Identify at least two inventions of the Industrial Revolution that you “couldn’t live without.” Why?

3. Questions
Do you believe the government should regulate businesses? Chart the positives and negatives of regulation.

4. Questions
Why were labor unions needed? List some specific problems workers faced. Also, do you feel that labor unions are valuable still, or do they pose too many obstacles for businesses?

5. The Expansion of Industry
Section 1
The Expansion of Industry

6. Natural Resources Fuel Industrialization
Black Gold
Edwin L. Drake:
Why is he important:
Bessemer Steel Process
Bessemer Process:
What did this do?
Why was this significant?
New Uses for Steel

7. Invention Promote Change
The Power of Electricity
Thomas Alva Edison
How did Electricity change industries/factories?
Inventions Change Lifestyles
Christopher Sholes
Invention:
Alexander Graham Bell

8. Section 2:
The Age
of the Railroads

9. Railroads Span Time and Space
A National Network
Transcontinental Railroad
Romance and Reality
How were the dreams different from the reality?
Railroad Time
How has this impacted us today?

10. Opportunities and Opportunists
New Towns and Markets develop along the Railroads
Pullman
George M. Pullman
Crèdit Mobilier
Describe this scandal

11. The Grange and the Railroads
Railroad Abuses
How were the railroads taking advantage of the farmers?
Granger Laws
Munn v. Illinois
What was the ruling?
Interstate Commerce Act
Define this term:
Panic and Consolidation

12. Section 3
Big Business and Labor

13. Carnegie’s Innovations
New Business Strategies
Vertical integration
Explain:
Horizontal integration

14. Social Darwinism and Business
Principles of Social Darwinism
Definition:
Is this theory still practiced in society?
A New Definition of Success
How was success judged/evaluated?
How do we judge success today?

15. Fewer Control More Growth and Consolidation
Rockefeller and the “Robber Barons”
John D. Rockefeller
Sherman Antitrust Act
What did this do?
Business Boom Bypasses the South
Why?

16. Labor Unions Emerge Why were labor unions needed?
Long Hours and Dangers
Early Labor Organizing
Examples:
NLU, CNLU

17. Union Movements Diverge
Craft Unionism
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Industrial Unionism
Eugene V. Debs
Socialism and the Law
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Other Labor Activism in the West

18. Strikes Turn Violent The Great Strike of 1877 The Haymarket Affair
The Homestead Strike
The Pullman Company Strike

19. Strikes Turn Violent Continued
Women Organize
Mary Harris Jones
Management and Government Pressure Unions