1. Did Industry Improve Society?
Many factors promoted industrialization, including cheap labor, new inventions and technology, and plentiful raw materials. Railroads rapidly expanded, while government policies encouraged economic growth.
What changes in lifestyle do you think occurred because of industrialization?
How do you think industrialization changed American politics?

2. Why did workers form unions?
The Rise of Industry What economic policies allowed industries to expand after the Civil War?
The Railroads
How did the railroads encourage the settlement of the Plains and the West?
Big Business
Why did captains of industry such as Andrew Carnegie expand their businesses through new ways of organization?
Unions
Why did workers form unions?

3. Big Ideas
Government and Society The United States government adopted a policy of laissez-faire economics, allowing business to expand.

4. The United States Industrializes
Natural resources and a large labor force allowed the United States to industrialize rapidly.

6. Lets Start a Business Pick a Business What resources do you need
How to you make it
Make a flow chart of how you use the resources

7. New Inventions
During the late 1800s, inventions such as the telephone and the lightbulb spurred economic development.

10. Telephone past and present
Pull up the worksheet from Mr. Phillips’ world

11. Europeans Flood Into America
Immigrants from Europe came to the United States for many reasons and entered the country through Ellis Island.

14. Minnesota Imigration
Swede Hollow Power Point
Immigration Power Point

15. Free Enterprise
Laissez-faire economics promoted industrialization, but tariffs protected American companies from competition.

16. Laissez-Faire: Hands off Entrepreneurs: Take Risk
Tariffs: taxes on Imports
Morrill Tariff- passed after civil war by Republican congress. Greatly increased tariff rates
Do you think Government policies helped or hindered industrialization and why

17. Big Ideas
Science and Technology The growth of railroads encouraged development of the Plains and Western regions.

18. Linking the Nation
After the Civil War, the rapid construction of railroads accelerated the nation’s industrialization and linked the country together.

19. Transcontinental Railway
Pacific Railway Act:1862
-Union Pacific
-Central Pacific
“everything- rails, ties, building supplies, fuel for locomotives and trains, supplies for the men and animals on the entire work – had to be transported from the Missouri River”

20. Robber Barons
The government helped finance railroad construction by providing land grants, but this system also led to corruption.

22. Time Zone Writing activity

23. Robber Barron v. Captains of Industry
Cornelius Vanderbilt, (The Men Who Built America)
Credit Mobilier Scandal: 1872
Investors owned both The Union Pacific and Credit Mobilier. Signed contracts with themselves.
Gouged the Union Pacific and added miles to track
Same investors controlled both…agreed to pay
When land grants were over, sold shares to congress way below cost
A letter to a newspaper listing all members of congress who accepted shares
--Rise of the term Robber Barrons

24. Big Ideas
Economics and Society Business people such as Andrew Carnegie developed new ways to expand business.

25. The Rise of Big Business
Corporations could produce goods more efficiently, which allowed the rise of big business.

26. Steel Production
Writing activity
Document on Mr. Phillips World

28. Consolidating Industry
Business leaders devised new and larger forms of business organizations and new ways to promote their products.

29. Remember your Business
Expand your business
What do you need ( Assume you have the capitol)
Low costs
Higher production
Profit
Present your ideas
(Chapter 5 section 3)

30. Big Ideas Struggles for Rights Unions grew and labor unrest intensified as workers fought for more rights.

31. Working in the United States
Low wages, long hours, and difficult working conditions caused resentment among workers and led to efforts to organize unions.

33. Struggling to Organize
Workers began to form unions to fight for better wages and working conditions but had few successes.

36. New Unions Emerge
The AFL fought for skilled workers; new unions tried to organize unskilled workers.

37. Business v. Worker Project
Details to follow

38. Causes of Industrialization
Abundant natural resources
Cheap immigrant labor force
High tariffs reduce the import of foreign goods
National transportation and communication networks

39. Causes of the Growth of Big Business
Little or no government intervention
Development of pools, trusts, holding companies, monopolies
Small businesses could not compete with economies of scale of larger businesses
Practices of some big businesses sometimes limited competition

40. Effects on the Workplace
Rural migration and immigration created large, concentrated workforce
Low wages, long hours, and dangerous working conditions were common in large-scale industries
First large unions formed but had little bargaining power against larger companies