1. INDUSTRIALIZATION
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2. Jeopardy Directions: Organize into small groups.
Appoint a scorekeeper.
Use the buzzer and wait to be called on to answer questions.
Phrase answers in the form of a question, i.e. “What is…”
Questions about a category? Ask for clarification.

3. Connect the Dots
Govnt and Business
Captains o’Industry
Labor Unions
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4. Who is Andrew Carnegie?
He controlled the steel industry; used vertical integration and believed in the Gospel of Wealth.
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5. Who is J.P. Morgan ?
He controlled the industry of banking and finance. His bank is still in business today.
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6. Who is John D. Rockefeller?
He controlled the oil industry; he believed in Social Darwinism; he created trusts.
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7. Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
He controlled the railroad industry by buying up small railroads and driving others out of business.
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8. Who is Andrew Carnegie ?
After a violent strike at his Homestead, Pa factory, unions would never again work at the factory. Name this Captain of Industry.
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9. What is the Knights of Labor (KOL)?
This is the name for the first labor union created after the Civil War. Originally, it was a skilled workers’ union, but it later opened up to non-skilled workers, as well.
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10. What are long hours, working conditions, low pay and child labor?
Labor unions were formed because…
(What concerns did workers have?)
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11. What is ILGWU? Which of the following is a REAL labor union?
The Industrial Ladies Garment Worker’s Union OR
The League of Textile Workers
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12. What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
This labor union was primarily a skilled craft union; it excluded most immigrants.
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13. What is a closed shop?
A workplace where all employees must be union members.
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14. What are monopolies and trusts?
Solution: The government passes laws, including the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Question: What was the problem the government was trying to solve through these regulations?
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15. What is trying to make a living wage (trying to survive by making money)?
Solution: Every family member, including children, would get a job working in a factory.
Question: What problem were poorer immigrant and African American families trying to solve?
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16. What are bad working conditions, long hours, low pay, child labor?
Solution: Workers formed labor unions and protested through labor strikes.
Question: What would cause people to form labor unions?
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17. What are labor strikes?
Solution: Employers created blacklists, yellow-dog contracts, lock-outs and hired strikebreakers.
Question: What were employers reacting to when they created the above solutions?
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18. What is railroad corruption?
Solution: The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) is created to regulate trade between states; farmers form cooperatives, i.e. the National Grange.
Question: Why did farmers feel a need for cooperatives and the ICC?
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19. What is laissez faire?
The name of the term that means government stays out business affairs.
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20. What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
First law that tried to regulate monopolies. It failed to define monopolies and trusts, therefore it was useless.
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21. What is the Clayton Anti-Trust Act?
Second law that tried to regulate monopolies. It clearly defined what corporations could and could not do.
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22. What is the Pullman Strike?
What is the name of the strike where the government abandoned their policy of laissez-faire and sided with big business against workers?
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23. What is the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)?
This government organization was created to enforce new laws about interstate business.
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24. What is Industrialization?
Term that means the overall name for the switch from agriculture and working at home to working in factories.
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25. Who is the Grange Movement?
What is the name of the movement where farmers created cooperatives to save money and lobbied their legislatures to crack down on railroads?
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26. What is Horizontal Integration?
Term for a business that owns several companies in one industry.
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27. What are yellow dog contracts?
Term for an agreement where workers promise they will not join unions. *These were created because of labor strikes.
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28. What is vertical integration?
Term for a business that owns companies that can produce a particular good from start to finish.
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29. FINAL JEOPARDY The following chart is an example of what?
KELLOG’S owns:
Fruity Snacks
Frosted Flakes Cereal
Special K Granola Bar
Cheezits