1. Good morning! Please find your new crowd.
Open your notes and find a place to start Unit 4. Be ready to write a response to the questions on the next slide.

2. End Four Minutes First Four
Identify a new technology & explain how it has changed American life.
What downside could there be from this new technology? In other words, have we lost something in gaining the technology?
Four Minutes
To change the timings of this timer, you need to enter the animation settings, and change the timings for the Isosceles Triangles. There will be 2 that need changing (to the same amount) – one animates the top triangle emptying, whilst the other animates the bottom triangle filling.
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3. Questions for Discussion
One minute: Briefly talk with your group & pick a question.
Three Minutes: Read your question silently & respond on your paper.
Think of the impacts, not just on individuals, but on
society as a whole.
Four Minutes: Discuss your thoughts with your group & see if you can agree on a conclusion or a response.
Be prepared to share with the class.

4. Group Discussion Questions
Can some people be too rich?
Can a business be too big?
What role should the government play in regulating the economy, if any?
Should the US limit immigration?
What are the benefits of technological progress? What might be some of the costs?
Should the US government regulate moral behavior – alcohol, obscenity, movies, sexual conduct, gambling, etc.
What should the government do, if anything, to maximize our freedom but also to protect equality?

5. Group Discussion Questions
Why are these questions so hard to answer?
What core values of “America” do they challenge?
Freedom?
Equality?
Order?

6. The Gilded Age & The Progressive Era
Unit Questions:
What is the cost of progress?
What do we value?

7. What do you see? What is the message?

8. Documents Read the poem, “The New Colossus.”
What is this about?
What values does it represent?
Read the Chinese Exclusion Act
How does it compare to the poem?

9. Rapid Industrialization
GQ#1 - Why were the 1870s and 1880s decades of rapid industrialization?
Rapid Industrialization
Civil War
Land
Transportation
Population
Role of Govt
Technology
Business Innovations
What vocabulary, examples & descriptions could you use with each?
Groups investigate & report to class.

10. Why did the USA maintain a high tariff policy in the 1870s and 1880s?
Paper 2 Part A Practice
Why did the USA maintain a high tariff policy in the 1870s and 1880s?

11. Why did the USA maintain a high tariff policy in the 1870s and 1880s?
Paper 2 Part A Practice
Why did the USA maintain a high tariff policy in the 1870s and 1880s?