Lesson: Post Civil War Industrial Growth - Part 1

Post Civil War Industrial Growth - Pt 1
USI.T6 Railroads, Robber Barons and Inventions

In pairs, students will analyze images representing child labor, and describe them in English, using simple and complex sentences.

Students will listen to a video depicting how robber barons enriched themselves and answer comprehension questions in English.

Language Objectives

Describe how railroad building encouraged the growth of the American economy.

Summarize the arguments for and againts trusts

Identify the new American technologies

Explain how workplace changes led to the rise of labor organizations such as the American Federation of Labor.

Explain the urban landscape of industrial America.

Content Objectives

Objectives - SWBAT

Match

Match the key term to the correct definition

• network

• trust

• patent

• sweatshop

• collective bargaining

system of connected railroad lines

group of

corporations with one board

license for a new invention

a workplace that exploits workers

negotiation between managers &

employees

• system of connected railroad lines

• group of

  corporations with one board

• license for a new invention

• a workplace that exploits workers

• negotiation between managers &

  employees

​Improvement of Railroads

Railroad Barons

​Railroad Companies

​Improvement of Railroads Vocabulary Section

Open Ended

In this image we see William Vanderbuilt (son of Cornelius Vanderbuilt) as a giant who holds the reigns of trains, tracks and everything related to railroads, controlling everything. We also have two other Railroad Barons, doing the same.

Why do you think these wealthy people wanted to control not only the railroads, but everything associated with them?

​Big Businesses Tycoons

Match

Match the industry to the correct baron

J. P. Morgan - banking and steel

John D. Rockefeller

oil

Andrew Carnegie -

steel

William H. Vanderbuilt -

railroads

• J. P. Morgan - banking and steel

• John D. Rockefeller

  oil

• Andrew Carnegie -

  steel

• William H. Vanderbuilt -

  railroads

​Sherman Antitrust Law - 1890

Multiple Select

What is the Sherman Antitrust law banning?

• the reduction of trade due to lack of competition

• any person or company from creating a monopoly

• business in general

• competition in general

​Big Business Vocabulary Section

​The Age of Inventions

​The Age of Inventions

​Inventions Vocabulary Section

Open Ended

List 3 patents that were awarded to Thomas Edison.

Do NOT include the ones you learned today.

Match

Match the invention to the inventor

electric bulb

transoceanic telegraph line

kodak camera

typewriter

airplane

• electric bulb

• transoceanic telegraph line

• kodak camera

• typewriter

• airplane

Open Ended

Why do you think inventions were so important to people's lives and to the world?