1. DO NOW:. Take out the articles you read, highlighted, and summarized
DO NOW: Take out the articles you read, highlighted, and summarized. Discuss with your kitchen table group: “What should we do with the Confederate monuments?” Be sure to explain your reasons and support with information from the articles.

2. Focus Question: How did the rise of big industries impact life and work in the US?
HW: Read & highlight p. 17 & 18, then answer questions on p Work on essay due: 2/27/18.

3. Focus Question: How did the rise of big industries impact life and work in the US?
Do Now:
Read a cartoon and profiles of late 19thc industrialists and respond to questions that follow.

4. Monopoly: A business so large that it controls an entire industry (such as steel production, oil production, railroad building). Monopolies are created when a business buys up or runs its competitors out of business. Trust: a kind of monopoly where competing companies merge and become trustees of one big company.

5. Robber Baron = nickname / late 19th – early 20th $$$$$ industrialists
Robber Baron = nickname / late 19th – early 20th $$$$$ industrialists. (Baron=lord/aristocrat)

6. Social Darwinism: rich = fittest + best humans / distorted Darwin’s ideas
Laissez-faire: govt. ≠ involved in econ.