Essential Question:

Did big businesses in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s help the United States economy grow quickly?

Objective:

How did Railroads contribute to the growth of business and industry?

Language Objective:  

Students will explain, arrange and create a pamphlet .

Essential Question:

Does the industrialization of America at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century hold any lessons for us today? 

Objective:

• What is the first major topic for this unit?

• What is an inventor?

• If we used the show Shark Tank, would we be able to recreate the show using inventors from the 1800-1900s?

Language Objective:

• Student will create a "mock episode" of shark tank

• Students will decide the important inventions of the inventors

• Students will be working with partners

• Students will be justifying a list of importance.

Objective:

How did "Robber Barons and/or "Captains of Industry" contribute to the growth of business and industry?

What is an entrepreneur?

en·tre·pre·neur

1. a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.

"Captain of Industry"

In the 19th century, a captain of industry was a business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributed positively to the country in some way. 

This may have been through increased productivity, expansion of markets, providing more jobs, or acts of philanthropy.

"Robber Barons"

The term "robber baron" was first used in the Middle Ages to describe businessmen who used unethical methods to monopolize industry and were known to exploit workers. It was later applied to many of the American industrial tycoons of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Essential Question:

    How did big businesses and other factors in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s help the United States economy grow quickly?

Objective:

How did the rivalry between Unions and Business Owners begin and what interactions did they have during this time period?

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Thanksgiving:

In 1621, the Plymouth colonists from England and the Native American Wampanoag people shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. 

Essential Question:

    How did big businesses and other factors in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s help the United States economy grow quickly?

Objective:

What is a trust?  What is a monopoly? How do they impact us now?

Language Objective:

The students will be reading  text and summarizing answers to questions 

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