1. Your TITLE PAGE
Include a clever title for the project that includes the years of the Industrial Era
Include a picture related to the Industrial Era
Include your names, too!

2. Immigrants List 4 reasons immigrants came from Europe to America
Who settled on the East Coast?
Who settled on the West Coast
What was Ellis Island
Where did immigrants live when they came to American cities?

3. Immigrants continued…
Describe the working and pay conditions for immigrants using 5 adjectives

4. Labor Unions
What happened to workers who complained in big businesses & factories?
What was the purpose of labor unions?
What is the idea of ‘collective bargaining’?
What is the purpose of a strike?
What is a strikebreaker & how did businesses use them to end strikes?
In 3 or more sentences, SUMMARIZE, using the 5W’s, The Homestead Strike in this box.

5. Inventions: The Telephone
Who invented the telephone?
Why was the invention of the telephone important?
When was the telephone created?
(Include a picture of the inventor & his invention on the right side)

6. Inventions: The Light Bulb
Who invented the lightbulb?
Why was the lightbulb an important invention?
(Include a picture of the inventor & his invention on the right side)

7. Inventions: (1 more of your choice)
Who was the inventor of your invention?
In what year was it invented?
Why was this invention important?
(Include a picture of the invention & its inventor (if you can) on the right side)

8. Transportation: The Bicycle
Who invented the bicycle?
When was it invented?
What impact did the invention of the bike have on America?
(Include a picture on the right side)

9. Transportation: The Automobile
How did the invention of the automobile impact America?
Who was Henry Ford & what was the “Model T”?
(include a picture of Ford & the Model T on the right side)

10. Transportation: The Airplane
Who were Orville & Wilbur Wright?
Explain in 2 sentences the details of their flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
(include a picture of them on the right side)

11. Corporations What is a corporation? Why were corporations formed?
Who owns corporations?
What is a share and/or a stock?
What is a stockholder?
When does a stock do well or do badly?
What can stockholders do with their stocks?
(include a picture related to corporations on the right side)

12. Big Businesses: Steel Corporations
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
Why did steel become popular to make and use in the late 1800s?
How did the Carnegie Steel Company become the USA’s largest steelmaker?
Why did steel affect the growth of major cities?
(Include a picture of a steel plant on the right side)

13. Big Businesses: Oil Companies
List 3 things that oil is used for?
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
What is an oil refinery?
What was the Standard Oil Company? What did it do that made it famous?
(Include a picture on the right side)

14. Business Monopolies
What is a system of ‘free enterprise’ and why would businesses like it?
What is a monopoly & why do businesses want to have it?
What were 3 ways that big businesses unfairly used their size and power to get what they wanted?
Why do consumers NOT like monopolies?

15. Regulating Monopolies
What does it mean ‘to regulate’ something?
Why did the American government try to regulate monopolies?
What was the purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act?

16. The Problems of Big Businesses
Why is competition between businesses good for consumers?
What were price wars and why were they bad for businesses?
What happened to small businesses because of price wars?
(include a picture on the left related to this topic)

17. Interpreting a Primary Source: Political Cartoons
Explain what this political cartoon is saying about monopolies & their goals.

18. Corruption & Reform
What was a ‘progressive’ and what did they believe in?
What was a social reformer?
Define the term ‘Corruption in Government’
Give an example of governmental corruption.
How were big businesses controlling the way Americans lived?
How were big businesses hurting the environment?
List 3 ways children were affected by the growth of big cities.
Who was Jane Addams & what did she do?
(include a picture of Jane Addams somewhere on this slide)

19. Suffrage What was the suffrage movement?
Why did suffrage get more support during the Industrial Era?
Who were “suffragettes”? What amendment helped women get the right to vote?
List 2 or more names of suffragettes.