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• How “laissez faire” politics led to the monopolization of specific industries during the 19th Century and how monopolies impacted workers and consumers.

• How and why “robber barons” or “captains of industry” took risks and to what extent their enterprise impacted the distribution of wealth in American society.

• How and why labor unions formed during the 19th Century and to what extent their leadership bred opposition and results (e.g., Knights of Labor and Terrence Powderly, AFL and Samuel Gompers, American Railway Union and Eugene V. Debs, United Mine Workers and “Mother” Jones). 

• How and to what extent various labor groups demonstrated and benefited from union tactics during the 19th Century (e.g., the Molly Maguires, the Railroad Strike of 1877, the Haymarket Affair, the Homestead Strike and the Pullman Strike).

• How Gilded Age entrepreneurs took risks to develop and monopolize industries and how their efforts impacted the economic development and cultural progress of the United States (e.g., John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan). 

• How “Captains of Industry” and Boss politicians defended the acquisition of wealth and power during the Gilded Age (e.g., Andrew Carnegie and “The Gospel of Wealth”, John D. Rockefeller, George Pullman, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall).

Bessemer Process
Union Pacific/Central Pacific = Transcontinental Railroad
Standard Oil
Munn vs. Illinois
Thomas Edison (light bulb, phonograph, motion pictures, research lab)
Alexander Graham Bell (telephone)
typewriter
Wabash case
Sherman Antitrust Act
National Labor Union
Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Haymarket Square riot
Terrence Powderly
Samuel Gompers,
American Railway Union
Pullman Strike
trust
scab
lockout
yellow-dog contract
blacklist
Railroad Strike 1877
Homestead Strike 1892
 “Mother” Jones
Molly Maguires
John D. Rockefeller
George Pullman
Andrew Carnegie
Gospel of Wealth
Horatio Alger
Social Darwinism
Cornelius Vanderbilt
J. P. Morgan
vertical integration
horizontal consolidation
trust
laissez-faire capitalism
robber barons/captains of industry
philanthropy
open shop
closed shop

​Guided Reading Expansion of Industry (starts page 832)

Guided Reading Big Business

Rise of Big Business worksheets

Guided Reading Creation of Monopolies

Guided Reading Labor Unions

Labor worksheets

Pullman Strike Activity

Homestead Strike Activity from Zinn (excellent)

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Ethics in American History: Rise of Big Business

Labor & the Haymarket Affair

SHEG Haymarket Lesson
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SHEG Pullman Strike Lesson

​Example of a Yellow Dog Contract

Close reading activity of Gospel of Wealth

Outstanding information on tobacco, cigarette production, labor unrest, Knights of Labor, and a lame Durham strike

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Questions for above

Photo analysis activity

Puget hop pickers photograph
Boiler room, sugar factory
coal breaker boys
photo analysis chart for above

Men Who Built America
Vanderbilt Viewing Guide
Rockefeller Viewing Guide
Episode 3 Carnegie
Episode 4 Carnegie part 2
Episode 5
Episode 6
Episode 7
Episode 8
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Complete Viewing Guide
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  • Home
  • Public Ed Advocacy
  • Historical Thinking Skills
    • Research
  • US History I
    • Part one >
      • American Values
      • European Schism & Imperialism
      • Early Colonial Period
      • Revolutionary Period
      • From the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution
      • Early Republic
    • Part two >
      • Age of Jackson >
        • 19th Century Religion & Reform
      • Manifest Destiny
      • Coming of the American Civil War
      • Civil War >
        • Lincoln: The Film
      • Reconstruction
      • American Dream
  • US History II
    • Part One >
      • Slavery by Another Name
      • West >
        • Homesteader Webquest
      • Gilded Age
      • Immigration & Urbanization
      • Populism & Progressivism
      • Imperialism
    • Part Two >
      • WW I
      • Roaring Twenties
      • Great Depression & New Deal
      • WW II
  • US History Digital Sources
  • Philosophy
  • AP US History
    • Period 4
  • Raw Materials
  • Race in the US
  • Pedagogy
  • Historical Thinking Skills