Chapter 20: Industrial Growth

Essential Questions & Focus

Essential Questions
Ch20 Industrial Growth
Why were railroads important to the growth o industry in the late !"00s# $sec%!&
'id monopolists do more good or (ad in growing industries under capitalism# $sec%2&
)ow are technologies important in growing industry and (usiness# $sec%*&
)ow should wor+ers react to (ad pay, long hours, unsae conditions & child la(or#
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.ection !: /ailroads .pur Industry
Focus: How did Vanderbilt create a huge railroad company?
In what other ways did railroads (other businesses too) get rid of competition from other companies?
How did railroads help create a boom in the economy?
0oca(ulary:
Vanderbilt
Competitors/Competition
Consolidate/Consolidation
Consumers
Rebates
ools
Essential Questions
Ch20 Industrial Growth
.ection 2: 1he /ise o 2ig 2usiness
Focus: !hat techni"ue created cheap but strong steel?
How did Carnegie create a steel company that produced more than all of #ngland?
!hy would a business become a corporation?
How did $ %organ become so powerful & own so many businesses?
!hat did Roc'efeller do to dri(e out ri(al oil companies?
How are trusts and monopolies similar?
How does a free enterprise system (capitalism) wor'?
!hy are monopolies bad for the economy?
How did the go(t) try to control monopolies?
0oca(ulary:
*essemer process
+ndrew Carnegie
Vertical integration
Corporation
,toc's
-i(idends
In(esting/In(estment
$ %organ
$ohn -) Roc'efeller
.rust
%onopoly
/ree enterprise system (capitalism)
,herman +ntitrust +ct
Essential Questions
Ch20 Industrial Growth
.ection *: In3entions Change the 4ation
Focus: How were in(entions helping industry/business?
!hat was so remar'able about a transatlantic cable or the telephone?
!hy was .homas #dison called the 0!i1ard of %enlo ar'2?
!hat did Henry /ord create that helped change many other businesses?
How does mass production help consumers?
!hat did the !right brothers create?
0oca(ulary:
atent
.ransatlantic
+le3ander 4) *ell
.homas #dison
Henry /ord
+ssembly line
%ass production
5r(ille & !ilbur !right
Essential Questions
Ch20 Industrial Growth
.ection -: 1he /ise o 5rgani6ed 7a(or
Focus: How did the wor' place get worse in the late 6788s?
!hat did the 9nights of :abor fight for?
How did the Haymar'et ,"uare Riot hurt unions?
!hat did the +merican /ederation of :abor do to e3pand membership in this union?
!hy was collecti(e bargaining important for wor'ers?
How did women and women;s groups fight in the wor' place?
!hat changes resulted from the .riangle ,hirtwaist /ire?
How did stri'es help turn public opinion against unions?
0oca(ulary:
,weatshop
!ages
4arment
.e3tile
,tri'e
9nights of :abor
,tri'ebrea'ers (scabs)
+narchists
Haymar'et Riot
+merican /ederation of :abor (+/:)
.rade union
Collecti(e bargaining
%other $ones
.riangle ,hirtwaist /ire