1. UNIT #2 – INDUSTRIALIZATION LESSON #3 - Railroads and Robber Barons (96-99)

2. New Plan for Composition Book:
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
What did the Chinese have to do with the Trans-continental Railroad?
What is your opinion of Robber Barons?
NEW VOCABULARY
Pacific Railway Act
Union Pacific
Central Pacific
Robber Barons
Land Grants
Great Northern Railroad

3. Intro to lesson What is the goal of every business?
(Go to 1m)
What is the goal of every business?
Is “all fair” in business competition?
What’s an example of business competition?
Ex: coke vs. Pepsi

4. Competition in Business…
What IS fair and allowed in business…
Can you lie?
Can you exaggerate?
Can you use the government to get rich?
Robber Barons did that
"Robber baron" was a derogatory term applied to some wealthy and powerful 19th-century American businessmen in late 1800s.
The word is a combination of criminal ("robber") and aristocracy (a baron)
It’s meant to see powerful businessmen at cheaters who destroyed competition by any means

5. Robber Barons Are they heroes, Or villains?
Did they make America great?
Or did they hurt Americans?
Should they be punished,
Or encouraged?

6. Transcontinental Railroad
Unified the nation
Built by the poor – mostly immigrants
To build it faster: attracted the Asian poor
(Go to 1m)

7. The Great Northern Railroad
Not all big business was amoral
James Hill: (read about him on p. 99)
What did he do?
What was the result?

8. The Great Northern Railroad
Not all big business was amoral
James Hill: (read about him on p. 99)
What did he do?
What was the result?
He: built and operated the GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY; He did it without “cheating”
The Result was: it became the first successful transcontinental RR, and one of the few that never went bankrupt

9. The Great Robber Barons of America:
Carnegie
Vanderbilt
Rockefeller
1:30-8:30

10. Result of Railroads Connected the nation Created competition
Created jobs
Increased immigration
Decreased costs
Increased profits for business

11. So…
Was it a good idea?

12. Day #1 History Channel – Modern Marvels
The building of the Transcontinental RR
47min.

13. Day #2 The Men who built America Episode #2 – 43 min.
Vanderbilt and Rockefeller