Octopus Cartoon Quick-write: Part 1 What do you see in this picture? How might it relate to the Gilded Age? What sorts of people are negatively impacted?

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Octopus Cartoon Quick-write: Part 1 What do you see in this picture? How might it relate to the Gilded Age? What sorts of people are negatively impacted? Part 2 What new ideas or new data emerge? Octopus Cartoon Quick-write: Part 1 What do you see in this picture? How might it relate to the Gilded Age? What sorts of people are negatively impacted? Part 2 What new ideas or new data emerge?

Railroads

Quick Write Part I: 1.What do you see in this picture? 2.How might it relate to the Gilded Age? 3.What sorts of people are negatively impacted?

Quick Write Part 2: Now read the captions in this picture. 4. What new ideas or new data emerge?

Federal Land Grants to Railroads

Credit Mobilier Scandal

Railroads Government incentives Frontier towns booming Immigrant Labor: Irish/Chinese Established robust trade with Asia US #1 world manufacturer

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877

The Pullman Strike 1894 There are two types of individuals represented in these images, workers and authority figures. Select one individual of each type and create a 30 words “think bubble” of what might be going on in each of the figures’ heads.

The Pullman Strike 1894

Government Interaction with the Railroads Munn v. Illinois: Supreme Court Wabash v. Illinois: Supreme Court Interstate Commerce Act & Commission Rebates, Pools, Rates

Pullman Cars A Pullman porter

A “Company Town”: Pullman, IL A “Company Town”: Pullman, IL

The Pullman Strike 1894 Pullman laid off 3,000 of its 5,800 employees and cut wages up to 40 percent. Labor leader Eugene V. Debs asks for arbitration but Pullman refuses. Cleveland sends in federal troops

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