Gilded Age:

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  • REVIEW PARTS OF HISTORY CHANNEL

    • Debate how has Private Business effected:

      • Economy

      • Society

      • Government

      • COMPLETE THIS DEBATE AS WE TRAVEL THROUGH THE INFORMATION AND DBQs

  • Monopolies - what are they, how do they affect, and why do they occur?

    • Monopolies: View and respond

      • Debate current and past monopolies

        • Microsoft

        • Google

        • Amazon

        • Sears

        • The Railroads

        • Rockefeller Oil

        • Carnegie Steel

  • Industrialization: Labor and Industrialization in Gilded Age

    • View portions of the ASOU: Cities: (CHART of Oil, Steel, Monopolies and Capitalism chart) -

    • WATCH ASOU: CITIES IN FULL:

      • Complete: - https://www.tumwater.k12.wa.us/cms/lib/WA01001561/Centricity/Domain/605/Story%20of%20Us%20Cities.pdf

      • Tycoons

      • What and Effect - then look at Amazon and New Industries (Obama on New Industries) vs. Trump roles back limits

      • There Will be Blood

        • Strike Oil

        • church at the end of the road scene

        • Oil man

        • Oil Rig

        • milkshake scene

          • 1. Oil today - what is oil, how does it cause machines to operate, how does it affect society, economy, politics

               1. Oil found ASOU:

                  1. America drills for oil

                  2. Oil Drilling: Extreme Oil Drilling | Explorer

                  3. Deep sea oil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTlpzf47MIU

                  4. Fracking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tudal_4x4F0

                  5. What Is Crude Oil? - what is crude oil

                  6. Why gas prices are so low right now - gas prices

                  7. How Rockefeller Became the Richest American Ever - Rockefeller

                  8. Cornelius Vanderbilt

                  9. Henry Ford

                  10. A History of Automobiles and History of Cars

                  11. Ford Factory - Then and Now (TESLA)

                  12. Effect of the Automobile on life

                  13. Steam Engine

                  14. Transcontinental Railroad

               2. Trump on Oil: Trump thanks Saudi Arabia for low oil prices

               3. Show OPEC video : What the heck is OPEC?!

               4. NEW GAS AND OIL BOOM: The U.S. Is Entering the Biggest Oil and Gas Boom Ever

            2. STEEL:

               1. Carnegie: The Men Who Built America: Traits of a Titan | History

               2. Andrew Carnegie

               3. Ind Revolution Bessemer - ASOU Steel

               4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTw9LVMBLns-Steel Start to Finish

               5. What is Steel?

               6. Why is steel important to the economy?

               7. Explain how steel is used today?

               8. The Mighty Skyscraper

                  1. The Famous Picture - VTS

                  2. Empire State Building and Built

                  3. Modern Built and WTC Building

                  4. Race to the Top - Why does it matter who builds taller?

Is Amazon a Monopoly?

1. ARE Debate: ARE Debate

2. Gospel of Wealth: Andrew Carnegie: Gospel of Wealth (clip) - and - http://www.paulrittman.com/Gospel%20of%20Wealth,%20Excerpt.pdf

   1. Read Amazon article above- http://theweek.com/articles/443007/amazon-monopoly

      1. Amazon Go: Amazon set to open doors on AI-powered grocery store

3. In an Argument Newsletter – working in pairs of 2, answer the questions and write an Argument Newsletter that summarizes your findings – follow the directions on the Newsletter template from Google Classroom

   1. Why are monopolies good or bad for:

   2. Jobs

   3. Wages

   4. Competing companies

   5. Cost of products/profits of other businesses.

      1. Go to Amazon:

      2. Research what they sell.

      3. How and where do they conduct business?

      4. Where did the product get manufactured?

      5. Who manufactured the product?

      6. What was their wage, and their expertise/education?

      7. How is the product shipped to buyer?

      8. Who owns the shipping company?

      9. How much does the product cost?

      10. How much does the same product cost from FIVE different websites/companies?

      11. How much does a similar product cost from a different company?

      12. How many different versions of the same product, but different companies does Amazon offer to consumer?

      13. How much does Amazon pay its labor (all types)?

      14. What jobs/roles do the human labor complete?

      15. What jobs/roles do the non-human labor (machine/robots) complete?

      16. What labor rights do they have?

      17. Does their labor have a Labor Union? ?v=I28_9eAwEW4 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebyKq3JqgAs

Consumerism debate: Wings/Macklemore

• • • 1. Consumerism: Good or Bad for America? For Capitalism? For Rich vs. Poor

Obama on New Industries:

• • 1. Predict new industries:

    2. SHOW CLIP FROM: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6cx6cp

       1. AT TEN MINUTES IN - NEW INDUSTRY

       2. What will the main resource for energy be?

       3. How will this new industry affect society, economy and government

       4. How will the new industry affect labor costs, knowledge

Megacorporation Or Monopoly: What's The Difference? -

1. What is a Monopoly? What is a Monopoly

http://slideplayer.com/slide/10621016/36/images/2/Vertical+and+Horizontal+Integration.jpg - DISCUSS - Define Vertical vs. Horizontal monopoly

• 1. Train Monopoly/transcontinental - ASOU clip and Train Political Cartoon Transcontinental Railroad: The Transcontinental Railroad

     1. How did the trains become monopoly? Steel? Oil?

     2. Union vs. Central and subsidy

        1. Should govt give a subsidy to Train? (How about Ford Bailout?)

     3. Why is the train not a monopoly today? (UPS, FEDex and USPS today) - Why is shipping key to America's economy?

     4. TR: How We Fight Against Monopolies - How we fight monopolies - find and locate laws that are Anti-Trust/Anti-Monopoly

        1. Trust-Buster

        2. Square Deal

        3. Anti-Trust laws: The Antitrust Laws

     5. Sears: Sears: The Rise And Fall Of The Massive U.S. Retailer | CNBC

     6. Frontline: Wal-Mart

        1. WHat is the history of Sears? How did they revolutionize consuming and selling? A History of Sears: Through Highs and Lows

        2. Wal-Mart Dying?: Why Walmart Is Failing In Japan

        3. Debate the impact of consumerism:

           1. Value of dollar:What gives a dollar bill its value? - Doug Levinson

           2. WIngs Video: Macklemore x Ryan Lewis "WINGS" Official Music Video