Unit 3: Big Business & progressive era

Unit 3 Outline:

• Unit 3: Big Business & The Progressive Era

  • Section 1: Industrialization & Technology

    • Technology & Demonization

    • The Evolution of Transportation 

    • Iron, Steel, & Oil

    • Technology & Leisure

    • Edison v Tesla

  • Section 2: Big Business in the Gilded Age

    • The Gospel of Wealth

    • Intro to Economics: Schools of Thought & Economic Systems

    • Rise of Corporations 

    • Industrialists: Robber Barons, Captains of Industry, or both?

    • Philanthropy & Pseudo-Science

    • Living & Working Conditions in the Gilded Age/Progressive Era

  • Section 3: Progressive Solutions

    • Intro to Progressive Era

    • Gilded Consumption

    • Government Corruption

    • Business Corruption

    • Violent Labor History

    • Muckrakers & Movements

    • Progressive Reform

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