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2. The Triumph of Industry (1850-1900)
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The Triumph of Industry (1865—1914)
Witness History: “The March of American Progress”
Technology and Industrial Growth
The Rise of Big Business
The Organized Labor Movement
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The Triumph of Industry ( )

3. Sec 1: Technology and Industrial Growth
Encouraging Industrial Growth
Main Idea: The Civil War challenged industries to make products more quickly and efficiently than they had been made before. Factories stepped up production, the food industry transformed itself, and railroads expanded. Meanwhile, the government encouraged immigration to meet the increasing demand for labor in the nation’s factories.
Innovation Drives the Nation
Main Idea: By the late 1800s, the drive for innovation and efficiency seemed to touch every sphere of life in the United States. The number of patents grew exponentially during this time and businessmen invested heavily in these new innovations.
The Impact of Industrialization
Main Idea: Industrialization touched every aspect of American life, from the way businesses and farms operated to the kinds of products used by average Americans. It also affected the country’s relationship with the rest of the world and with its own environment.
Witness History: Celebrating the Nation’s Centennial
Note Taking: Reading Skill: Identify Causes and Effects
Color Transparencies: Industry in the United States
Progress Monitoring Transparency
Sec 1: Technology and Industrial Growth

4. Note Taking: Reading Skill: Identify Causes and Effects

5. Transparency: Industry in the United States

6. Progress Monitoring Transparency: Section 1PM
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Progress Monitoring Transparency
Answer C A
Progress Monitoring Transparency: Section 1

7. Sec 2: The Rise of Big Business
Fighting for Profits
Main Idea: Until the mid-nineteenth century, most businesses were run by one person or family and were local. Industrialization and railroads changed all this.
Debating the Role of Big Business
Main Idea: Throughout the 1880s, business mergers created powerful empires for those who invested in steel, railroads, meat, farm equipment, sugar, lumber, and a number of other enterprises. However, while business leaders grew wealthy, many smaller companies and consumers began to question their goals and tactics.
The Government Imposes Regulations
Main Idea: The great industrialists’ methods and their stranglehold on the nation’s economy worried some Americans, and in 1887, the United States Senate created the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to oversee railroad operations.
Witness History: From Rags to Riches
Note Taking: Reading Skill: Identify Supporting Details
Color Transparencies: Political Cartoons: Robber Barons
Chart: Structure of a Corporation
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Sec 2: The Rise of Big Business

8. Sec 2: The Rise of Big Business (con’t)
The Rise of Big Business (continued…)
Comparing Viewpoints: What is the legacy of the business tycoon?
History Interactive: More about big business
Progress Monitoring Transparency
Sec 2: The Rise of Big Business (con’t)

9. Note Taking: Reading Skill: Identify Supporting Details

10. Political Cartoons: Robber Barons
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Political Cartoons: Robber Barons

11. Chart: Structure of a Corporation

12. Comparing Viewpoints: What is the legacy of the business tycoon?

13. Progress Monitoring Transparency: Section 2PM
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Progress Monitoring Transparency
Answer C A
Progress Monitoring Transparency: Section 2

14. Sec 3: The Organized Labor Movement
Workers Endure Hardships
Main Idea: The industrial expansion in the United States made the American economy grow by leaps and bounds. However, the people who actually performed the work in factories and industries struggled to survive.
Labor Unions Form
Main Idea: Industrialization lowered the prices of consumer goods, but in the late 1800s most factory workers still did not earn enough to buy them. Increasingly, workers took their complaints directly and forcefully to their employers, often through organized unions.
Strikes Rock the Nation
Main Idea: As membership in labor unions rose and labor activists became more skilled in organizing large-scale protests, a wave of bitter confrontations between labor and management hit the nation.
Witness History: The Right to Strike
Note Taking: Reading Skill: Identify Main Ideas
Chart: Shifts in U.S. Labor Force
Color Transparencies: Labor Riots
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Sec 3: The Organized Labor Movement

15. Sec 3: The Organized Labor Movement (con't)
The Organized Labor Movement (continued…)
Quick Study: Major Strikes of the Late 1800s
Political Cartoons: A Different Kind of Knight
Color Transparencies: The Haymarket Riot
Progress Monitoring Transparency
Sec 3: The Organized Labor Movement (con't)

16. Note Taking: Reading Skill: Identify Main Ideas

17. Chart: Shifts in U.S. Labor Force

18. Transparency: Labor Riots

19. Quick Study: Major Strikes of the Late 1800s

20. Political Cartoons: A Different Kind of Knight
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Political Cartoons: A Different Kind of Knight

21. Transparency: The Haymarket Riot

22. Progress Monitoring Transparency: Section 3PM
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Progress Monitoring Transparency
Answer C A
Progress Monitoring Transparency: Section 3