Labor's Response to Industrialization 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 Labor's Response to Industrialization (1870-1900) during the Gilded Age. It can be used by instructor as tool to facilitate class discussion (and notes), or uploaded into google classroom for independent student use. The 16 slide presentation is filled with colorful pictures and other relevant information that will breathe life into this fascinating era of U.S. 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:
* Working conditions of the working class.
* Widespread child labor (reasons so many children worked & conditions they endured).
* The rise of the labor movement in the U.S. in the late 1800's & their main goals.
* Difficulties labor unions faced in the era & the ways big business undermined unions.
* The emergence of national labor organizations: Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor (AFL), & the Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies").
* Strikes erupt nationwide in an era of economic turbulence: the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, the Haymarket Affair (1886), the Homestead Strike (1892), & the Pullman Strike (1894).
* The legacy of the early labor movement: successes & failures.
*Lesson learning target on the bottom of every slide.