1. Industrial America
From Farm to Factory

2. The “Big Switch” Nation goes from the farm to the city The worker
Agrarian to Industry
Not good for the farmer
The worker
Becomes part of the cog rather than an individual

3. Black Gold Edwin L. Drake Used steam engine to drill for oil
Made process easier
Oil Boom

4. Bessemer Process Henry Bessemer
1856: Invents a process to turn Iron into Steel
Wanna know how? Ask a scientist!
Invention will revolutionize America

5. Steel Iron was the metal Rust and breaks easily Remove carbon from
Iron = Steel
Stronger, rust resistant
Uses
Railroad is the biggest- rails, engines, cars
Barbed wire for farms
Structures- bridges, buildings

6. Revolutionaries Inventions that make life easier Thomas Alva Edison
Electricity- 1876
Christopher Sholes
Typewriter- 1867
Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone- 1876
Coast to Coast in 1915

8. Railroad Transcontinental New Towns and Businesses Farmers
Land grants meant for farmers go to railroads
Different rates for different customers
Granger Laws
Fixed rates
Munn v. Illinois
Supreme Court upholds laws

9. Robber Barons Andrew Carnegie J.P. Morgan John D. Rockefeller
Steel
J.P. Morgan
Banking
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Steam Ships
George M. Pullman
Rail Cars
Started the first American Company town

10. Game Rules!
Roll the dice to move around the game board. Each colored box coordinates with a colored card, which should be picked up and read aloud when landed on by a member.
(ex: land on a red square, pick up the top card in the red pile)
Each member of the group must fill out a “Know Your Robber Baron Handout.” Whenever someone lands on a colored square, the info should be copied down by all group members.
Game works by each member gaining or losing tokens depending on the outcome on a card, or the game board. The person at the end with the most tokens is the winner.
Game Duration = Until the handout is completely filled out!
This game is designed to teach you about the Robber Barons, the industries they controlled, as well as their faults and triumphs.

11. Game Rules
Each member starts out with 3 tokens. Assign one member of the group to be the banker.
Place the yellow, blue, green, and red cards in the center of the board. Keep them facedown and with their own color.
Place the ? Cards off to the side.
Board Guide
Yellow=Background
Blue=Industry
Green=Bid of Philanthropy
Red=Biggest Blunder
?=black cards

12. Unions NLU-National Labor Union- 1866 Knights of Labor- 1868
Won 8 hr. work day
Knights of Labor- 1868
Opened to all- race or gender
8 hour work day and equal pay for equal work
AFL- American Federation of Labor- 1886
Craftsman Union
Collective bargaining- group negotiations
Used strikes as major tactic

13. Unions Con’t Industrial Unions- ARU & IWW- Led by Eugene V. Debs
Leading American Socialist
Wanted to do away with Capitalism
Gov’t owned and operated business
1892- won strike for higher wages

14. Labor Unrest Great Strike of 1877- B&O Railroad
Began July Stopped rail traffic across country
Ended Aug Federal troops called in
threatened interstate commerce
Haymarket Affair- McCormick Harvester Plant- May 4, 1886
Rioters gather in Haymarket Square after striker is killed by police
Police arrive- a bomb is thrown- police open fire
Public turns against labor movement
Homestead Strike- Carnegie Steel Plant- July 6, 1892
Strikers clash with Pinkerton Detectives and Scabs

15. Unrest Con’t Ludlow Massacre Colorado Fuel and Oil Co.
Owned by Rockefeller
Strike because of pay and conditions
Evicted from company town
Set up camp outside Ludlow
April 20, 1914
Militia & company guards surround tent city and open fire
11 women an children killed

16. Breaking the Union Failure Government Public Opinion
failed strike would crush a Union
Government
Industries used Sherman Anti-Trust against Unions
strike would interfere with interstate commerce
Public Opinion
Strike led to hire prices for goods
Anarchist conditions