Age of Industry & Innovation (1970-1900)
Activity for U.S. HistroyGrade
9 - 12, Home School
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Social Studies/History
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Activities
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Post a CommentThis presentation provides students a visually stimulating lesson detailing the Age of Innovation & Industry in the United States during the Gilded Age (1870-1900). Designed as a student-centered activity to be uploaded into google classroom, the presentation includes 8 embedded focus questions for students to answer using their core text (and additional information presented in the slides). The 16 slide activity is filled with colorful pictures, maps, and other relevant information that will serve as a platform in which to build additional related activities. This lesson is also great to use when you are out of the classroom, serving as an awesome resource for sub days! If you'd like a version you can edit, shoot me an email and I'll be happy to help. Enjoy!
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.