Today's Agenda

AP Learning Objective: 
Explain the socioeconomic continuities and changes associated with the growth of industrial capitalism from 1865 to 1898.

Learning Target:
I can describe the growth of industry in the United States, and I can assess its impact on American society.

Critical Vocabulary: Homestead Act, Exodusters, Great Sioux War, Ghost Dance, Dawes Act, New Immigrants, Chinese Exclusion Act, Political Machines, Patronage, Pendleton Act, Populist Party, Omaha Platform, Laissez Faire Economics,Social Darwinism, Vertical Integration, Horizontal Integration, Monopoly, A Gospel of Wealth, American Federation of Labor, Industrial Workers of the World, Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Muckrakers, Social Gospel Movement, Settlement House Movement, Atlanta Compromise, Niagara Movement, Square Deal, Trust-Buster, The Jungle, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Progressive Party, New Nationalism, New Freedom, Sixteenth Amendment, Federal Reserve Act, Clayton Anti-Trust Act, Seventeenth Amendment, Eighteenth Amendment, Nineteenth Amendment

Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: Create Trading Cards for Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan.
2. Citizenship Question: How many years are there in one term of office for a U.S. Representative? 
   A. 2 
   B. 4 
   C. 6 
   D. 8
3. Guided Instruction: The Growth of Industry
4. Reflection Question: How did a belief in laissez faire economics lead to the success of men such as Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, and Carnegie?

Homework: The Growth of Industry Reading