1. Bell Ringer
How did American economic principles and the ideas of social Darwinism encourage the growth of big business?

2. LEQ: Why will industrial workers form unions in the late 1800s?

3. Government & Business
Late 1800s: gov’t maintained a ‘hands off’ attitude toward business
Sherman Antitrust Act- made it illegal to form trust that interfered with free trade.

4. Industrial Workers
Whites
Immigrants
Children

5. Primary source pic to show working conditions
Where are they working? Who is in the picture? What are the conditions like?

6. Industrial Workers-What were the conditions like?
Long hours
No vacations
Few safety measures
Pressured to work as fast as possible

7. Workers Seek Change National Unions Knights of Labor
Hope to achieve success without striking
Worked for 8 hr workday & end of child labor

8. Workers Seek Change The Great Railroad Strike
Response to wages being cut
Violent

9. Workers Seek Change The Haymarket Riot Chicago
Union supporters vs. Police
Press blamed immigrants
Xenophobia – fear or foreigners

10. Workers Seek Change American Federation of Labor (AFL) Samuel Gompers
Fought and won higher wages for workers and shorter work weeks

11. Workers Seek Change Homestead Strike: Carnegie Steel Company
Manager called for faster production
Strike was unsuccessful

12. Workers seek Change The Pullman Strike
Led by Eugene V. Debs (leader of the American Railway Union)
President Grover Cleveland would call in federal troops and put the strike down.

13. Writing Assignment
During the late 1800s, many of the industrial tycoons donated millions of dollars to charitable organizations. However, these were the same men who enforced dangerous and difficult labor conditions on women and children (robber barons). Evaluate men such as Andrew Carnegie and Cornelius Vanderbilt and decide if they were robber barons or industrial tycoons? Were they good men or bad men?
5-7 sentences

14. Foldable Each flap will have a name.
Flap 1 is the Pullman Strike.
Flap 2 is the Homestead Strike.
Flap 3 is the Great Railroad Strike.
Flap 4 is the Haymarket Riot.
When you open the flap, on the inside left side, you will record how successful/unsuccessful the strike was.
When you open the flap, on the inside right side, you will record meaningful information about the strike. Where did it take place? What industry was impacted? Were their any fatalities? Who was the leader? Why were the people striking? What were some of the consequences of the strike?