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** __Chapter 6 Objective__: //To analyze the effects of various scientific discoveries and manufacturing innovations on the nature of work, the American labor movement, and businesses.// **

The Essential Questions:
Who benefits and who suffers during the time of profound economic change? Do individuals or the government have more responsibility for reforming society? What are the legacies of industrialization and the response of reformers to industrialization, during the early twentieth century?

**Section 1: The Expansion of Industry**
 * __Main Idea__: At the end of the 19th century, natural resources, creative ideas, and growing markets fueled an industrial boom. **

__Objective__: Explain how the abundance of natural resources, new recovery and refining methods, and new uses for them led to intensive industrialization. 1. What led to the nation’s oil boom? 2. What was the **Bessemer** process and how did it fuel steel production? 3. What were some of the new uses in the U.S. for steel?
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__Objective__: Identify inventions that changed the way people lived and worked. 4. How did harnessing of electricity transform American business? 5. How did new inventions and products affect people at home and at work?
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**__Main Idea__: The growth and consolidation of railroads benefited the nation but also led to corruption and required government regulation.**
 * Section 2: The Age of the Railroads **

__Objective__ : Identify the role of the railroads in unifying the country. 6. How did the government facilitate the expansion of the railroads? 7. What were the positive and negative aspects of railroad expansion? 8. How did railroad time work?
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__Objective__: List positive and negative effects of railroads on the nation’s economy. 9. How did the growth of railroad lines promote the growth of cities and trade? 10. What was the Crédit Mobilier scandal?
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__Objective__: Summarize reasons for and outcomes of the demand for railroad reform. 11. For what reasons were farmers angry with railroad companies? 12. How did the Granger laws help farmers? 13. What was the Interstate Commerce Act?
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**Section 3: Politics Big Business and Labor** **__Main Idea__:** The expansion of industry resulted in the growth of big business and prompted laborers to form unions to better their lives.

** __Objective__: ** Identify management and business strategies that contributed to the success of business tycoons such as Andrew Carnegie. [|The Gospel of Wealth] 14. What business did Andrew Carnegie dominate? 15. What was the difference between vertical integration and horizontal integration?
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**__Objective__:** Explain Social Darwinism and its effects on society. 16. What does the theory of Social Darwinism advocate? 17. What methods did ruthless business operators use to eliminate their competition? 18. Why did the nation’s business boom bypass the South?
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**__Objective__:** Summarize the emergence and growth of unions. 19. What conditions did many factory workers face in the late 19th century? 20. What did labor unions advocate? 21. What different types of unions emerged during the nation’s industrial boom?
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__Objective__: Explain the violent reactions of industry and government to union strikes. 22. What were the reasons for the various strikes during the late 19th century? 23. What role did women play in the labor movement? 24. How did management and the government react to union activity?
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Vocabulary Practice Activity http://www.quia.com/jg/1445610.html http://www.quia.com/jg/1445627.html

Chapter 6 Vocbulary Activities

6.1: The Expansion of Industry Vocabulary Practice Activity 6.2: The Age of Railroads Vocabulary Practice Activity 6.3: Big Business and Labor Vocabulary Practice Activity Chapter 6 Immigrants and Urbanization Vocabulary Practice Activity 9.1 The Origins of Progressivism http://www.quia.com/jg/1130388.html 9.2 Women in Public Life http://www.quia.com/jg/1130362.html 9.3 Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal http://www.quia.com/jg/1130397.html 9.4 Progressivism Under Taft http://www.quia.com/jg/1130458.html 9.5 Wilson's New Freedom http://www.quia.com/jg/1131423.html Chapter 9 The Progressive Era http://www.quia.com/jg/1131442.html


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 * Press Conference on Progressivism**

Useful Web Links (Thank you Mrs. Dorman) The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - The Gilded Age http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module12/index.html Laissez-Faire Capitalism| http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/Index.html?http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/Politics_LaissezFaire.html PBS – Andrew Carnegie http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/ America’s Library – Andrew Carnegie http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/carnegie Steel http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0026315.html Bessemer Process http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0016421.html Background of the Bessemer Process http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Bessemer_process John D. Rockefeller Biography http://www.rockefeller.edu/archive.ctr/jdrsrbio.html PBS – The Rockefellers http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/ Milton Hershey http://www.hersheytheatre.com/m1.html Cornelius Vanderbilt http://www.arvadesign.ca/narhf/nar99/NAR99awards_VAND.html John Pierpont Morgan http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmorgan.htm Cartoons of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/uscartoons/GAPECartoons.htm The Great Chicago Fire http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/index.html Cornell University - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/ Photographs from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire http://teaching.arts.usyd.edu.au/history/hsty3080/3rdYr3080/trianglewebsite/ NPR - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1416870 Davenport Library - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Sweatshops, and Labor Reform http://www.rbls.lib.il.us/dpl/ref/hist/hid/histhidtriangle.htm The New Deal Network - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire http://newdeal.feri.org/library/d_4m.htm Child Labor and Child Labor Reform http://history.osu.edu/Projects/ChildLabor/default.html Temperance and Prohibition http://prohibition.history.ohio-state.edu/Contents.htm PBS – Theodore Roosevelt http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tr/ Immigration in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~shgape/bibs/immig.html Tammany Hall Political Machine http://www.bartleby.com/65/ta/Tammany.html The Haymarket Riot http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas/index.htm History of the US Labor Movement http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/labor.html Labor Strikes http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_051202_iistrikes.htm Pittsburgh and Western PA Labor Legacy http://www.publichistory.org/reviews/View_Review.asp?DBID=70 US Labor Strikes History http://www.state.sd.us/deca/DDN4Learning/ThemeUnits/USLabor/strikes.htm US Labor History - General Information http://www.state.sd.us/deca/DDN4Learning/ThemeUnits/USLabor/general.htm Labor History http://www.boondocksnet.com/labor/history/labor_history.html Labor Management and Conflict http://history.osu.edu/Projects/LaborConflict/Default.htm The Urban Experience in Chicago (Hull House) http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/urbanexp/ Jane Addams (Hull House) http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/Exhibits/jane.addams/addams.index.htm The Ram's Horn - Social Gospel http://history.osu.edu/Projects/Rams_Horn/default.htm How the Other Half Lives – Jacob Riis http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html Ida M. Tarbell – The History of the Standard Oil Company http://www.history.rochester.edu/fuels/tarbell/MAIN.HTM Women and Social Movements 1830-1930 http://www.binghamton.edu/womhist/index.html Votes for Women – Suffrage Pictures http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html Women’s Suffrage Documents http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/woman_suffrage/woman_suffrage.html Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/Lessons_US/Gilded_Age/Coal_Mining/default.htm Inside an American Factory – Films of the Westinghouse Works http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westhome.html Labor – Management Conflict http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/laborconflict/ The Gilded Age – online resources http://www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/history/gilded.html PBS – Not For Ourselves Alone (The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony) http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/ The American Steel Industry http://history.osu.edu/Projects/Steel/Default.htm PBS The Stock Market Crash http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/crash/ Urban Construction http://www.42explore.com/construct.htm Building Big http://www.pbs.org/includes/survey/top20/buildingbig.html How Iron and Steel Work http://science.howstuffworks.com/iron.htm Skyscrapers http://science.howstuffworks.com/skyscraper1.htm How Stocks and the Stock Market Work http://money.howstuffworks.com/stock.htm How Banks Work http://money.howstuffworks.com/bank.htm Impact of Refrigeration http://www.history-magazine.com/refrig.html America in the Gilded Age http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/gildedage.html How the Other Half Live - Jacob Riis http://www.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html The Second Industrial Revolution http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook35.html Early Labor Union History http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/recon/workday_1 Knights of Labor http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/bus/A0827931.html Knights of Labor Overview http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAknights.htm American Federation of Labor http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAafl.htm AFL-CIO Labor History http://www.aflcio.org/aboutaflcio/history/index.cfm Industrial Workers of the World http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAiww.htm Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era http://history.osu.edu/Projects/Gilded_Age/default.htm Bread and Roses – History and Poetry of the American Labor Movement http://www.boondocksnet.com/labor/history/labor_history.html Edison Motion Pictures http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhm.html Ogden Meat Packing History http://historytogo.utah.gov/ogdenpack.html Muckrakers Overview http://www.bartleby.com/65/mu/muckrake.html Muckrakers Authors and Subjects http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h920.html The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - Progressivism http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module14/index.html Progressivism General Resources http://www.u-s-history.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?search=progressivism The 1912 Presidential Election http://1912.history.ohio-state.edu/ Teenvestor http://www.teenvestor.com/ Robber Barons and Captains of Industry http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=429 The Model of Supply and Demand http://ingrimayne.saintjoe.edu/econ/DemandSupply/OverviewSD.html Index of Microeconomics Topics http://ingrimayne.saintjoe.edu/econ/MicroIndex.html WebEc (Resources in Economics) http://netec.wustl.edu/WebEc/WebEc.html Inflation Calculator http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ CPI (Consumer Price Index) - Inflation Information http://www.bls.gov/cpi/home.htm U.S. Department of Labor http://www.bls.gov/home.htm