TANTASQUA REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
History/Social Studies Department
A.P. U.S. History
Unit VIII: The Gilded Age: Capital, Labor and the Industrial City
Ch. 17 & 18
Essential Questions:
Which political, social, and economic changes contributed the most to the industrial growth and expansion of
the United States? How did these changes affect America’s character and economic system?
Consider individuals like Carnegie and Rockefeller…are they Robber Barons or Captains of Industry? Why?
In the conflict between industry and labor, what were the “weapons” available to each side?
Discuss the impact the era known as the Gilded Age had on the development of American society at the
turn of the century.
Date
Monday, February 24th
Tuesday, February 25th
Wednesday,
February 26th
Thursday,
February 27th
REMINDER: Please bring your book with you to class every day.
Objectives
Activities
Homework Assignment
Understand key themes
and trends of the “Gilded
Age”
Analyze the relationship
between big business and
the growing labor
movement.
Evaluate the impact of
business and labor
leaders in the early
late 19th Century.
Evaluate the impact of
business and labor
leaders in the early late
19th Century.
PPT: The Rise of Big
Business (to “Gospel
of Wealth)
Readings:
-Ragged Dick
-The Forgotten Man
PPT: The Rise of Big
Business (finish)
Activity: Begin Gilded
Age project
PPT: Growth of the Labor
Movement
Read & outline Ch. 17,
section 1
Read & outline Ch. 17,
section 3
(NOTE: WE ARE
SKIPPING SECTION
2!!)
Project
presentation/discussion
tomorrow.
Activity: Gilded Age Project
Activity Round-table/class
discussion
Read & outline Ch. 18,
section 1
Friday, February 28th
Monday, March 3
rd
Understand the impact of
urban growth and
development at the turn
of the 20th century.
Understand the impact of
urban growth and
development at the turn
of the 20th century.
PPT: The Industrial City
Wrap-up/Catch-up Day
Read & outline Ch. 18,
section 3
(NOTE: WE ARE
SKIPPING SECTION
2!!)
Prepare for tomorrow’s
in-class DBQ
Vocab due
Tuesday, March 4
th
Demonstrate Unit 8
knowledge and practice
writing skills.
In-class DBQ
State Capitals quiz
tomorrow!
Vocabulary
Ch. 17
Harry Bessemer
Andrew Carnegie
Jay Gould
RR improvements/time zones
JP Morgan
Gustavus Swift
Vertical integration
Oligopoly
JD Rockefeller/Standard Oil
Montgomery Ward/Sears & Roebuck
Henry Ford/mass production
Frederick Taylor/Scientific management
collective bargaining
Knights of Labor/Terence V. Powderly
closed shop
American Federation of Labor/S. Gompers
Haymarket affair/riots
Homestead Strike
Henry Frick/Pinkerton Detective Agency
Great Pullman RR Strike/boycott
Eugene V. Debs/American Socialist Party
industrial union
Ch. 18
Electric trolley car
Skyscrapers
Thomas Edison/incandescent bulb
A. Graham Bell/telephone
Tenement House Law of 1901
Frederick Olmstead
Ghettos
Political machines/Tammany Hall/Boss Tweed
Dwight L. Moody
vaudeville
National Baseball League
Hearst/Yellow journalism