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Unit 8-Industrialization

ACT EOC C.1.a; C.1.b; C.1.c

The rise of the United States as an industrial power began after the Civil War. Many factors promoted industry, including cheap labor, new inventions and technology, and plentiful raw materials. Railroads rapidly expanded. Government policies encouraged growth, and large corporations became an important part of the economy. As industry expanded, workers tried to form unions to fight for better wages and working conditions.

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Vocabulary

• Gross National Product
  
• Edwin Drake
  
• Laissez-Faire
  
• Entrepreneur
  
• Morrill Tariff
  
• Alexander Graham Bell
  
• Thomas Edison
  
• Pacific Railway Act
  
• Grenville Dodge
  
• Leland Stanford
  
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
  
• Time Zone
  
• Land Grant
  
• Jay Gould
  
• Credit Mobilier
  
• James J Hill
  
• Corporation
  
• Stock Holder
  
• Stock
  
• Economies of Scale
  
• Fixed Costs
  
• Operating Costs
  
• Pool
  
• Andrew Carnegie
  
• Bessemer Process
  
• John D Rockefeller
  
• Standard Oil
  
• Social Darwinism
  
• Vertical Integration
  
• Horizontal Integration
  
• Monopoly
  
• Trust
  
• Holding Company
  
• Deflation
  
• Trade Union
  
• Industrial Union
  
• Blacklist
  
• Lockout
  
• Marxism
  
• Knights of Labor
  
• Samuel Gompers
  
• Arbitration
  
• Closed Shop
  
• Haymarket Riot
  
• Pullman Strike
  
• Homestead Strike
  

Assignments

U8 CH9-1 Inventions Act.
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U8 CH9-1 Inventions Notes
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U8 CH9-2 Railroads Act.
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U8 CH9-2 RR Act Answers
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Four Industrialists Reading
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U8 CH 9-3 Corporations Act.
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U8 CH9-3 Corporations Notes
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U8 CH9-4 Unions/Labor Act.
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U8 CH9-4 Unions/Labor Notes
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Big Ideas

• Evaluate the impact of new inventions and technologies of the late 1800s.
• Identify and evaluate the influences on business and industry in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
• Identify labor and workplace issues of the late 1800s, including perspectives of owners/managers and Social Darwinists.
• Identify the effects of expanding population on industry.
• Explain the effects of technological innovations such as the telephone and telegraph on American development.
• Discuss ways in which the railroads spurred industrial growth.
• Analyze how the railroads were financed and how they grew.
• Analyze how large corporations came to dominate American business.
• Evaluate how Andrew Carnegie's innovations transformed the steel industry.
• Describe industrial working conditions in the US in the late 1800s.
• Identify the barriers to labor union growth.
• Explain how conflicts between management and workers often resulted in violence.