Part I: Corporations and Conflict
Tasks:
- Introduce new unit of study: Period VI - 1865 (end of the Civil War) to 1898 (start of the Spanish-American War)
- Listen to song from Hamilton, an American Musical, and review important components of Hamilton's vision for America's future. The time period we are studying now is the moment in American history when Hamilton's vision surpasses that of Jefferson's.
- Small group discussion: What are some of the points made by Richard White in his essay, "The Rise of Industrial America, 1877 - 1900"?
- Central Inquiry for the first part of this unit: What opportunities and risks did industrialization bring? How did industrialization reshape society?
- Identify the factors that made industrialization possible in America, and explain how each factor helped facilitate growth.
- Abundance of labor and natural resources
- Role of the federal government
- Technological innovation
- Redesigned financial and management structures
- Watch selected excerpts from video, Chicago: City of the Century to identify the opportunities and risks of industrialization.
- Assignment: Use information from chapter 24 to answer questions 1 & 2 in your notes.
What opportunities and risks did industrialization bring?
How did industrialization reshape society?
- Why did corporations arise? (p. 565 - 574)
- How did industrialists consolidate their power? (574 - 579)
- How did industrialization affect the South? (581 - 583)
- What opportunities did new corporations offer people? (p. 583 - 586)
- How did work conditions change for industrial workers in the late 19th century? Why? (p. 583 - 586)
- What are the goals of the early labor unions? How successful were these labor unions in achieving their goals? (p. 587 - 592)
