Goal 5.1Industrialization, Immigration, and Urban
Life
Immigration WritingPart 1: Research 4 aspects of immigration. Keep notes
on your research as you will be turning it in with part 21. Process immigrants went through at Ellis Island to be
admitted to United States2. Living conditions in the cities where many immigrants
settled3. what work was available to the immigrants4. How immigrants were treated by those already in the
United StatesPart 2: Write a 1 page letter to your family in the country
from which you came describing your experiences as an immigrant. Need to include specific information from your research.
Migration to Cities & ImmigrationEllis IslandAngel IslandEthnic ghettos
Old vs. new immigrants?
NativismChinese Exclusion Act 1882
Living and Working Conditions for immigrants
Tenementssweatshops
Reformers & Social GospelJacob RiisJane Addams
Social GospelHull House
Inventions
Urban Life in the Age of IndustrialismElectric trolleySaloonsdance halls &cabaretsAmusement parksVaudeville
Goal 5.2Rise of Big Business
Giants of Early IndustryBessemer processAndrew Carnegie
Vertical integrationMonopolyGospel of Wealth
Gospel of WealthRead and highlight/underlineanswer questions in complete sentence using a quote
from the text for each answer
1. Changes in civilization have brought about what social problem?
2. How does Andrew Carnegie define wealth? Who is it meant to benefit?
3. Explain the three ways in which Carnegie determines the wealthy administer their wealth.
4. Which procedure of administering wealth does Carnegie believe is the most beneficial to society and why?
Giants of industrialization
Edwin Drake• Oil in PA
John D. Rockefeller• Standard
Oil
Cornelius Vanderbilt• Railroads
J.P. Morgan• Finance
capitalist
George Westinghouse• Westinghous
e Electric Company
Social Darwinism & Gilded AgeSocial DarwinismHoratio AlgerMark Twain & Gilded Age
Goal 5.3Workers & Labor Unions
Conditions of the WorkerReview: Industrial R
evolution
MentallyPhysicallyFinancially-see table
in Smart NotebookChild labor
UnionsLabor unions
Craft unionsTrade unions
Knights of LaborFactory workers, farmers, shopkeepers, office
workersAfrican AmericansSocial reforms
American Federation of LaborSamuel GomperStrikes & boycottsCollective
bargaining & mediationArbitration
Closed shop
Employer Response to UnionsYellow-dog contractsBlacklistsLockoutsScabsinjunctions
Strikes & ConfrontationsGreat Railway Strike 1877Haymarket RiotHomestead Strike
PinkertonsPullman strike
Eugene Debs
Labor Union Debateread articlesMake list of 5 points supporting your sideMake list of 3 points supporting other side
Include for each of these 3 points, a counter argument your side could use in retaliation
Will be turning in at end of class
Unions today…http://www2.alabamas13.com/news/2012/oct/
09/why-it-matters-labor-unions-ar-4717084/http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2012/10/01
/wal-mart-workers-tell-street-about-hard-work-low-pay/
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/09/06/2319095/unionism-at-arms-length.html
http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/dallas-stars/headlines/20120907-nhl-labor-negotiations-could-resume-soon-as-lockout-deadline-looms.ece