US History
BCCS
NAME _____________________________
Unit 2: The 4th Dream – To Get a Piece of the Pie (Capital v. Labor)
STUDY GUIDE 2.1
September 26th – September 29th
Essential Question 1: Who has the power in America—“the people” or “the interests”?
Essential Question 2: Does industrialization equal progress?
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Date
Focus of Class
Homework
Grades
M 9/26
Welcome to Unit 2:
Industrialization, Capital,
and Labor
PPET #1
PPET #1
(HW): __/10
PPET #2
PPET #2
(HW): __/10
Rise of Technology and
the Impacts of the
Railroad
Introduce Q1 Project
T 9/27
Part I: Big Business
Captains of Industry or
Robber Barons?
Car/Rock
(CW):
Closer Look: Carnegie and
Rockefeller
Q1-1 (MA):
___/5
Select groups and films
W 9/28
Social Darwinism and the
Gospel of Wealth Jigsaw
PPET #3
PPET #3
(HW): __/10
Social
Darwinism
(CW):
People, Places, Events, Terms #1
Ch. 24: Industry Comes of Age pgs 530-538
Thoroughly identify and tell the significance of these terms.
Growth of railroads
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
Union Pacific Railroad
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
Credit Mobilier
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
Irish “Paddies”
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
Central Pacific Railroad
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
5 Transcontinental Railroads
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
Pullman Palace Cars
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
Stock watering and promoters’ profits
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
Pools, rebates, and kickbacks
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
People, Places, Events, Terms #2
Ch. 24: Industry Comes of Age pgs 538-542
Identify and explain the major causes for industrialization in the late 19th century. .
Resources
Mass immigration
Science/Technology
Alexander G. Bell
Thomas Edison
Identify and tell the significance of the following terms:
Andrew Carnegie and vertical integration
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
John D. Rockefeller and horizontal integration
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
J.P. Morgan
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
Trusts
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
Bessemer Process
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
United States Steel Corporation
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
Oil
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
People, Places, Events, Terms #3
Ch. 24: Industry Comes of Age pgs 543-549
Thoroughly identify and tell the significance of these terms.
Gospel of Wealth
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
Social Darwinists
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
“Pittsburgh plus” pricing system
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
Southern textile mills
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
The Gibson Girl
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance:
Industrial buccaneers
Who:
What:
When:
Where:
Significance: