UNIT 2
Week 2
Homework for the week
• Monday 9/23
• Cornell Notes: 14.2
• *Reminder: Tuesday is the last day to complete the test if a student
had an excused absence
• Tuesday 9/24
• T-Chart from sections 15.1 & 15.2
• Block Day 9/25 & 9/26
• Test corrections are Wednesday and Thursday at lunch and during
7th period.
• Study Vocab
• Essay outline rough draft due on Friday
• Friday 9/27
• Look over the peer review comments and work on your essay
outline.
Agenda: Monday 9/23
• HOT ROC
• Monopoly simulation
• How did people amass such
wealth at the turn of the
Century? (Robber Barons or
Captains of Industry?)
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Vocab terms
Notes
Below the Surface graphic
Today’s division of wealth
• Monday 9/23
• Cornell Notes: 14.2
• *Reminder: Tuesday is the last day
to complete the test if a student
had an excused absence
• Tuesday 9/24
• T-Chart from sections 15.1 & 15.2
• Block Day 9/25 & 9/26
• Test corrections are Wednesday
and Thursday at lunch and during
7th period.
• Study Vocab
• Essay outline rough draft due on
Friday
• Friday 9/27
• Look over the peer review
comments and work on your essay
outline.
HOT ROC:
• Do billionaires have a responsibility to help the poor?
• Do millionaires?
• Homework Check: Project notes and primary source
Simulation
• Business A
• 1 volunteer (owner)
• Business B
• 3 volunteers (shareholders)
• Step 1 (August):
• Business A, set the price for t-
shirts
• Step 2 (September):
• Business B opens up a store
across the street, set the price
for t-shirts at store B
• Class: Which store will you
shop at?
Simulation
• Step 3 (October):
• Business A, respond to the t-shirt price of Business B
• Class: Which store will you shop at?
• Step 4 (November):
• Business B, respond to the t-shirt price of Business A
• Class: Which store will you shop at?
• Step 5 (December)
• Repeat process
• Class: Which store will you shop at?
• Business Person A
• You own a successful t-shirt shop on
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• Business Person B
• You are a local manager for the national t-shirt
company, Shirt Me Up, that has stores all over the
Castro Street. You are just one shop
nation. You are currently managing the new store that
but you’ve managed to stay in
just opened up on Castro Street. There is a t-shirt
business because you are the only tshop already on Castro Street, but you are pretty
shirt shop on Castro Street. Recently,
confident you can drive them out of business since you
a t-shirt shop opened up across the
can draw on money from the national office.
street and it’s part of the national
chain, Shirt Me Up, that has stores all
over the nation. You are worried about • Basics – t-shirts cost $6 to manufacture and your
losing some of your customers to them
competitor currently sells them for $12. They need to
but you are willing to cut prices and
make at least $2 profit on each t-shirt to cover the cost
offer sales if it will keep you in
of rent and employees. This is true for you also, but
business.
you can lose money for several months in a row
because your national office will cover your costs.
Basics – t-shirts cost $6 to
manufacture and you currently sell
them for $12.
• Task: Start the competition by telling the shoppers in
You need to make at least a $2 profit
your group that you are willing to offer t-shirts for $10
on each t-shirt in order cover the cost
and ask if they will shop at your store instead. No
of your rent and pay your employees.
matter what your competitor does, respond by offering
your t-shirts for less money. It doesn’t matter if you
If you lose money for more than a
lose money, because eventually they’ll go bankrupt
month then you will not be able to pay
and then you won’t have to compete with them
for your rent.
anymore. When they go out of business, raise your
Task: Respond to the sales ideas from
prices to $20 a t-shirt.
Person B in competitive ways in order
to stay open.
Big Business and the Government
• Horizontal
and Vertical
Integration
• Textbook, page
171
New Vocabulary words…
• Monopoly: Oil and steel industries were
both controlled by monopolies at the
beginning of industrialization.
• Trust: a set of companies managed by
a small group known as trustees, who
can prevent companies in the trust from
competing with each other. If all search
engines were controlled by the same
people.
• Corporation: Google, Netflix, Apple.
Any company that sells stocks.
Andrew Carnegie
$75 Billion
Don’t take notes on this section
• Andrew Carnegie came from Scotland
with his parents in 1848.
• In 1861, at the age of 26, he started up
the Freedom Iron Company, and used
the new Bessemer process for making
steel
• He formed all of his companies into the
Carnegie Steel Company in 1899,
which controlled raw materials,
manufacturing, storage, and distribution
for steel.
• Vertical Integration
John D. Rockefeller
$192 Billion
Don’t take notes on this section
• Born in 1839
• His working life started as a
bookkeeper
• He established one of the first oil
refineries
• 1870—With partners, forms a
business trust: Standard Oil
• At its peak, controls 90% of all oil
companies
• Horizontal Integration
The Gilded Age…1870s-1900
• Where was the most money made?
• Was this positive or negative for
America?
Steel
Production
1870
1900
77,000
tons
11 million
tons
Oil production 5 million
barrels
63 million
barrels
Railroad track 53,000
miles
200,000
miles
What would Rockefeller say…
• Monopolies are good because
we can produce goods at a
lower cost to consumers!
• Now everyone can have
cheap oil and gas.
• We use our wealth to benefit
others through our charitable
donations (philanthropy)
• We are captains of industry!
What would the Populists (poor farmers)
say?
• Monopolies are bad
because they control the
whole industry and there is
no competition over prices.
• We have to pay high prices
to ship our wheat on the
trains!
• And these companies pay
low wages to their workers!
• They are robber barons!
Big Business and the Government:
POV
Leave Business Alone
• Laissez-faire
• Social Darwinism
Limit Business
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act
• 1911--Splits
Rockefeller’s Standard
Oil into 34 companies
• (A U.S. Court of Appeals
found in 2001 that Microsoft
violated the Sherman Act
antitrust law.)
Who are the billionaires (Robber Barons) of
today?
Source: Forbes 2013
Rank
Name
Worth
Age
Source
Country
1
Carlos Slim Helu &
family
$73 B
73
telecom
Mexico
2
Bill Gates
$67 B
57
Microsoft
United
States
3
Amancio Ortega
$57 B
77
Zara
Spain
4
Warren Buffett
$53.5 B 83
Berkshire Hathaway
United
States
5
Larry Ellison
$43 B
69
Oracle
United
States
6
Charles Koch
$34 B
77
diversified
United
States
6
David Koch
$34 B
73
diversified
United
States
8
Li Ka-shing
$31 B
85
diversified
Hong
Do we have robber barons today?
(If time allows) Draw a Below the Surface graphic from
each point of view…
• 1. According to Rockefeller—monopolies are like…
• 2. According to the Populists—monopolies are like…
Agenda: Tuesday 9/24
• HOT ROC: Was the rise of
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industry good for American
workers? Thesis statement
Union simulation
Oral Processing questions
Notes on 14.3 with guided
reading questions
(if time) begin Historical Inquiry:
Why did the Homestead Strike
turn violent?
• Monday 9/23
• Cornell Notes: 14.2
• *Reminder: Tuesday is the last day
to complete the test if a student
had an excused absence
• Tuesday 9/24
• T-Chart from sections 15.1 & 15.2
• Block Day 9/25 & 9/26
• Test corrections are Wednesday
and Thursday at lunch and during
7th period.
• Study Vocab
• Essay outline rough draft due on
Friday
• Friday 9/27
• Look over the peer review
comments and work on your essay
outline.
Homework
• Read sections 15.1 &
15.2 and complete the
following T-Chart:
• *Ask your parents
how, when, and why
did your family come
to the US. Place this
on the T-Chart as well.
Push
Factors
Pull Factors
HOT ROC
• Using your HW from last night, respond to the following
prompt in a thesis statement:
• Was the rise of industry good for American workers?
Simulation
Instructions
• Form groups of 4
• Put desks together
• Get an envelope from the teacher
• Procedure:
• The game has six rounds
• During each round, you will have a few minutes to decide whether
you want to play a green card or a pink card
• You may send a representative to talk to other groups about what
color each group should play.
• Once you decide which card to play, hide that card under one
person’s desk. Hide your other card in the envelope and place the
envelope in the middle of your group of desks.
Instructions
• At the end of each round, all groups will be asked to reveal
their cards by quickly holding them up at the same time.
• Points will be given in the following manner:
• If ALL groups play a green card, every group will receive
points.
• If some groups play green and some play pink, groups that
played pink will receive positive points
• If ALL groups play pink, every group will receive negative
points.
• Points +/- 1 Point
• The group with the most points wins!
Scoring: After each round, the scores
will be tallied on the white board
Group
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
Group 7
Group 8
Round
1
Round
2
Round
3
Round
4
Round
5
Round
6
Total
Each round
Cards & Points
• If ALL groups play a green
card, every group will
receive points.
• If some groups play green
and some play pink, groups
that played pink will receive
positive points
• If ALL groups play pink,
every group will receive
negative points.
• Points +/- 1 Point
Procedure
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Once you decide which
card to play, hide that
card under one
person’s desk. Hide your
other card in the
envelope and place the
envelope in the middle
of your group of desks.
Processing
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5.
What emotions did you experience while playing the
game?
For those of you who played a green card every time,
why did you do that?
For those of you who played a pink card even once,
why did you do that?
Why was (or wasn’t) the class able to play the game so
that everyone won?
Can you think of something from history or real life that
has a similar dynamic to this game?
14.3 Formation of unions
• The green card
represented joining a
union.
• The pink card
represented “scabs” or
workers who crossed
the picket line.
Unions: Attempts to solve the problems of
the working class.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te9JZhSZUZE
Section 14.3
• Record at least two strategies labor unions employed in
their attempt to improve workers’ lives.
• Record at least two ways employers attempted to
undermine unions.
• What was the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
Rise of Labor Unions
• Labor Unions: group of
workers organized to
protect the interests of its
members
• Formed in response to low
pay and unhealthy working
conditions
• Collective Bargaining: group
negotiations between workers
and employers to reach
common agreement on
wages/working conditions for
all.
• If demands are not met,
workers can Strike (*new
vocab term)
Strikes turn Violent
• Haymarket Affair
(1886, Chicago)
• Strike over 8 hour work
day
• Dynamite thrown at a
demonstration
• Pullman Strike (1894,
Chicago)
• Railroad workers strike
over lowered wages
• Federal troops break the
strike
The Homestead Strike
• Homestead Steel Mill:
owned by Andrew
Carnegie
• Amalgamated
Association: successful
labor union formed at
the mill
• Mill run by Henry Frick
• His goal is to break the
union
The Homestead Strike
• Worker contracts expire
in 1892
• Frick tries to lower wages
• Workers try collective
bargaining to keep wages
• Frick refuses to negotiate,
locks workers out
• The Homestead Strike
• Frick hires Pinkerton
Detectives to guard mill
• “battle” breaks out when
they arrive
• Largest uprising since Civil
War
Historical Inquiry: Why did the Homestead Strike of
1892 turn violent?
Docs
Doc A
Doc B
Doc C
Source: who wrote
this document? Do
you trust it? Why or
why not?
Hypothesize:
According to this
document, why did
the Homestead
Strike turn violent?
Explain
Evidence:
quotes/info from
the document
supporting the
suggestion
Mixed Success for Unions
Section 14.5
• Record at least three important losses or gains that labor
unions experienced during this time.
• Write at least one sentence explaining each gain or loss.
Wrap Up
• Based on your experience in the game and what
you read in Chapter 14, why might it have been
difficult for workers to form labor unions?
• Would you have advised an immigrant who had
just come to the US looking for work to join a
union? Why or why not?
• Why might workers have wanted to form labor
unions, despite those difficulties?
• What was the government’s response to the
Homestead and Pullman strikes?
Agenda: Block Day 9/25 & 9/26
• Go over unit 1 test as a class
• Continue Historical Inquiry
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activity
HOT ROC: Class immigration
story report out.
Vocabulary: Immigration &
Strike
Push and pull factors T-Chart
completion
“American Land” song and
discussion
Why did the Captains of Industry
want an immigrant workforce?
• Monday 9/23
• Cornell Notes: 14.2
• *Reminder: Tuesday is the last day
to complete the test if a student
had an excused absence
• Tuesday 9/24
• T-Chart from sections 15.1 & 15.2
• Block Day 9/25 & 9/26
• Test corrections are Wednesday
and Thursday at lunch and during
7th period.
• Study Vocab
• Essay outline rough draft due on
Friday
• Friday 9/27
• Look over the peer review
comments and work on your essay
outline.
The Homestead Strike
• Homestead Steel Mill:
owned by Andrew
Carnegie
• Amalgamated
Association: successful
labor union formed at
the mill
• Mill run by Henry Frick
• His goal is to break the
union
The Homestead Strike
• Worker contracts expire
in 1892
• Frick tries to lower wages
• Workers try collective
bargaining to keep wages
• Frick refuses to negotiate,
locks workers out
• The Homestead Strike
• Frick hires Pinkerton
Detectives to guard mill
• “battle” breaks out when
they arrive
• Largest uprising since Civil
War
Historical Inquiry: Why did the Homestead Strike of
1892 turn violent?
Docs
Doc A
Doc B
Doc C
Source: who wrote
this document? Do
you trust it? Why or
why not?
Hypothesize:
According to this
document, why did
the Homestead
Strike turn violent?
Explain
Evidence:
quotes/info from
the document
supporting the
suggestion
Mixed Success for Unions
Section 14.5
• Record at least three important losses or gains that labor
unions experienced during this time.
• Write at least one sentence explaining each gain or loss.
Wrap Up
• Based on your experience in the game and what
you read in Chapter 14, why might it have been
difficult for workers to form labor unions?
• Would you have advised an immigrant who had
just come to the US looking for work to join a
union? Why or why not?
• Why might workers have wanted to form labor
unions, despite those difficulties?
• What was the government’s response to the
Homestead and Pullman strikes?
Immigration
• Share with your partner what you know about when
your family came to the US and why they came.
• Open up textbook to p.200 to see the break down of
where people have come from.
• New Vocab: Immigration
WHY (did they
come?)
Jobs
(Opportunity)
Political Turmoil in
Native Country
(Democracy)
Escape/
Persecution
(Liberty/Equality/
Rights)
Family already in
US
Forced :
Servitude /
Indentured
Middle
East
Africa
Asia & S. Australia Europe
Pacific
Central
America
South
America
Immigration from Europe
1st Wave
1870s-1880s:
Western and
Northern
Europeans
(German, English
and Irish
Immigrants
2nd Wave 1890s1920s:
Southern and Eastern
Europeans (Italian,
Jewish, and Polish
immigrants
The Journey Across the Atlantic
• Steamships
• No windows, little
ventilation, one toilet
for hundreds of
passengers
• Steerage class
Arrival in America
• Ellis Island and Angel Island
• 75% Ellis Island
• Chinese and Japanese in Angel
Island
• Statue of Liberty
• “Give me your tired, your poor, your
huddles masses yearning to breathe
free, The wretched refuse of your
teeming shore. Send these, the
homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift
my lamp beside the golden door”
• ~Emma Lazarus 1883, JewishAmerican poet
Ellis Island
• Medical Inspections:
• “Six-second exam”
• Legal Interviews
• 29 Questions: What is
your name? Age?
• “Do you have work
waiting for you in the
US?”
• 20% failed one of these
• Hospital
• Further interviews
• 2% Deported
Beyond Ellis Island:
• Many immigrants settle in cities:
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New York, Chicago, Boston
1870—25% of Americans live in
cities
1920—50% of Americans live in
cities
Immigrants settle near others
from their home country
• “Ethnic Enclaves”
Tenements: crowded, dirty
Settlement Houses: provide
services, such as child care and
classes
Homework review & new information
Push Factors
Europe,
p.188-189
Asia, p.195 &
197
Mexico, p.198
Canada,
p.199
• Population growth leads to
food shortages and fewer
jobs.
Pull Factors
“American Land”- Bruce Springsteen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPIYmjzbK7c
• What is this land of America, so many travel there
I'm going now while I'm still young, my darling meet me there
Wish me luck my lovely, I'll send for you when I can
And we'll make our home in the American land
Over there all the woman wear silk and satin to their knees*
And children dear, the sweets, I hear, are growing on the trees*
Gold comes rushing out the river straight into your hands*
If you make your home in the American land*
There's diamonds in the sidewalks, there's gutters lined in song
Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man
Who will make his home in the American land
I docked at Ellis Island in a city of light and spire
I wandered to the valley of red-hot steel and fire****
We made the steel that built the cities with the sweat of our two hands
And I made my home in the American land
“American Land”- Bruce Springsteen
• There's diamonds in the sidewalk, there's gutters lined in song
Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man
Who will make his home in the American land
The McNicholas, the Posalski's, the Smiths, Zerillis too**
The Blacks, the Irish, the Italians, the Germans and the Jews
The Puerto Ricans, illegals, the Asians, Arabs miles from home***-*****
Come across the water with a fire down below******
They died building the railroads, worked to bones and skin
They died in the fields and factories, names scattered in the wind
They died to get here a hundred years ago, they're dyin' now
The hands that built the country we're all trying to keep down
There's diamonds in the sidewalk, there's gutters lined in song
Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man
Who will make his home in the American land
Who will make his home in the American land
Who will make his home in the American land
Wrap Up
• Why did the “Captains of Industry” want an immigrant
workforce?
• Ellis Island:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4wzVuXPznk
• (2:12-14:40)
Agenda: Friday 9/27
• HOT ROC: Vocab Quiz
• Peer review of essay outline
rough draft
• Thesis statement analysis
practice (if time)
• Monday 9/23
• Cornell Notes: 14.2
• *Reminder: Tuesday is the last day
to complete the test if a student
had an excused absence
• Tuesday 9/24
• T-Chart from sections 15.1 & 15.2
• Block Day 9/25 & 9/26
• Test corrections are Wednesday
and Thursday at lunch and during
7th period.
• Study Vocab
• Essay outline rough draft due on
Friday
• Friday 9/27
• Look over the peer review
comments and work on your essay
outline.
Understanding Thesis Statements
• On the next slide you will be presented with 3 examples of
a thesis statement.
• For each statement, assign a letter grade (A, B, or C)
• For the “A” Grade- explain why.
Thesis Statements
1. The rise of industry had many positive and negative
effects on the United States.
2. While industrialization at the turn of the twentieth
century created social inequalities, overall it created
economic opportunities for both workers and
industrialists, benefiting the daily lives of most
Americans.
3. The rise of industry at the turn of the twentieth century
greatly increased economic opportunities for some of
the wealthy elite. However, industrialization negatively
impacted a far larger percentage of the population both
economically and socially.
Peer Editing
• Swap your outline with your partner
• You will use the scoring guide to assess your partner’s
outline.
• Mark your score on the guide attached to the assignment
sheet.
• If you are not prepared with an outline, then take out your
notes and a textbook and work on your thesis statement
and outline.
Introduction and Thesis
• __ Introduction sets place and time
• __ Thesis statement answers the prompt
• __ Thesis statement states a position.
• __Thesis statement includes sub-claims (paragraph topics) that are different than the list of research
terms on the assignment sheet.
• __ Sub-claims are more refined than economic, social, political, opportunity, conflict or positive and
negative.
• __ Uses academic vocabulary, like transition words.
• __ Is written clearly.
Claims (Topic Sentences of the Body Paragraphs)
• __ Describes a topic that is not one of the key terms given on the assignment sheet.
• __ Is a complete sentence.
• __ Does not repeat the exact same words used in the thesis statement.
• __ Connects to the thesis sentence.
Evidence
• __ Is fully explained.
• __ Includes information beyond what is in the textbook.
• __ Uses at least 2 of the suggested key terms or people to support your claim.
• __ Includes commentary that connects the evidence back to the claim and/or the thesis statement.
• __ Includes source information from at least 3 sources.
Conclusion and Research Skills
• __ States why the information included is historically significant or of interest to the reader.
Scoring Guide