The Gilded Age Continues!
What do you think of the gold font? Cool, huh? This week, we'll continue with our Gilded Age unit then enter the Death of the West...The nation will become an industrial giant, the superpower of the world, the nation of innovation and inventions, but will also devastate the western peoples...
The Men Who Built America - The Gilded Age 1865-1900
John D. Rockefeller on Big Business and Enterprise!
Thomas Edison: The Wizard of Menlo Park
How Edison Changed the World...
Thomas Edison Banished The Darkness..
Immigration to the United States 1880--1920
Questions to Consider...
- What does gilded mean?
- What is a trust? A monopoly?
- What enabled the tycoons like Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Morgan, etc. to do what they did in the business world?
- What industries thrived in the Gilded Age?
- What is the difference between vertical and horizontal integration?
- What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
- How did men like Carnegie and Rockefeller spend their millions of dollars in retirement?
- What is the greatest invention of all time? *I'm biased here :)
- How did the inventions of the late 19th century revolutionize America?
- What is urbanization and what are the effects of urbanization?
- What contributions did immigrants bring to the United States from 1880-1920?
- What was the Progressive Era?
- Why did the Progressive Era take place? How do we see a Progressive Era today?
- What were some progressive reforms in the early 20th century?
- Who was the most progressive president..EVER!?
- Who were Jacob Riis? Ida Tarbell? Upton Sinclair?
- What is a muckraker?
Day 1
In Class: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Project due! -- Continue our Gilded Age/Immigration/Progressive Era discussions and readings: Gilded Age Packet
HW: Work on President Research paper Due March 7!!!
Notes: Be sure to tackle Presidential Projects for March 4 and March 21 -- Johnson and Grant ... Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, McKinley
In Class: The Men Who Built America -- Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, Ford, Edison, Vanderbilt -- Integration tactics in business -- Ruthless industry!! Gilded Age Packet
HW: Work on President Research paper Due March 7!!!
Notes: Be sure to tackle Presidential Projects for March 4 and March 21 -- Johnson and Grant ... Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, McKinley
Day 3
In Class: The Men Who Built America -- Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, Ford, Edison, Vanderbilt -- Integration tactics in business -- Ruthless industry!! Gilded Age Packet
HW: Work on President Research paper Due March 7!!!
Notes: Be sure to tackle Presidential Projects for March 4 and March 21 -- Johnson and Grant ... Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, McKinley
Day 4
In Class: Immigration of the 1880s-1920, Urbanization, and the Progressive Era Gilded Age Packet
HW: Work on President Research paper Due March 7!!!
Notes: Be sure to tackle Presidential Projects for March 4 and March 21 -- Johnson and Grant ... Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, McKinley