Age of Industry & Innovation (1870-1900)
PP Notes for U.S. HistoryGrade
9 - 12, Home School
Subjects
Social Studies/History
Resource Type
PowerPoints
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Post a CommentThis visually stimulating presentation provides a detailed account of the Age of Innovation & Industry in the United States during the Gilded Age (1870-1900). It can be used by instructor as tool to facilitate class discussion (and notes), or uploaded into google classroom for independent student use. The 17 slide presentation is filled with colorful pictures, maps, and other relevant information that will breathe life into this fascinating era of history while providing a platform in which to build additional related activities. If you'd like a version you can edit, shoot me an email and I'll be happy to help!
Topics include:
* A technological revolution transforms American life (increase of patents issued in era, the brilliant Thomas Edison, the telegraph, telephone, automobile, airplane, Drake's oil well, the Bessemer Process, electricity...).
* Frederick Winslow Taylor & The Principles of Scientific Management begin to change the way factory work is done.
* The rise of big business & corporations; the formation of monopolies & trusts; the practice of horizontal & vertical integration.
* Laissez-faire economics, social Darwinism, the role of government in the economy in the late 1800's, & the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
* Description of the Gilded Age & the "Robber Baron" v. "Captain of Industry" debate.
*Lesson learning target on the bottom of every slide.