1. Talking Drawings
Read the section on your businessman (Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, Pullman, Morgan or Edison).
Fold your paper in 4 sections.
Each section must contain a drawing depicting your businessman’s life. No words may be used. You must tell their story.
Be prepared to present your work to the class. Each person must participate in the drawing and presentation.

3. Monopolies took several organization forms including what were known as trusts.
Stockholders of several competing corporations turn in their stock to trustees in exchange for a trust certificate entitling them to a dividend. Trustees ran the companies as if they were one.
Natural competition is gone. Prices were no longer up to supply and demand.

5. Were the founders of American industry "robber barons" or "captains of industry?"
cruel and ruthless businessmen
wealth comes first
exploiting workers, unfair labor
horrible working conditions
Captains of Industry
ingenious, hard-working leaders
transformed America
philanthropy (charity)
created work for masses

6. Human Spectrum: Agree or Disagree
Overall, this new technology (railroads, steel, oil, and electricity) was good for America.
The best way for government to help business and promote industrialization is to leave it alone, to do nothing.
It is the government’s role to help workers and the public when they were hurt during the process of industrialization.
It is a person’s responsibility to take care of themselves. If a person is down on their luck, they must pick themselves up by their own “bootstraps” and make something of themselves. There should be no government safety-net or welfare.

7. Human Spectrum: Agree or Disagree
Only the strongest will become wealthy and those that are poor are not fit enough. People’s circumstances are not an excuse.
The government should prevent businesses from becoming monopolies. Monopolies eliminate competition, which is good for everyone.
Working conditions would deteriorate if it was not for laws and government regulation of businesses.
Overall, Unions are good for America.