14) Industrial Workers (Part II)

If you were there...

You run a button machine in a clothing factory in the 1890s. You work from 7:00 in the morning until 6:00 at night, every day except Sunday. Your only break is 15 minutes for lunch. Now you hear about a movement to start a workers' union to bargain with your employer. Union members will ask for an 8-hour workday. But you think your employer might fire you if you join.

Would you join the union??? Why or why not? (Explain your answer in a complete sentence.)

13) Industrial Workers

a) What were some of the problems workers faced during the Second Industrial Revolution?
b) What were the 5 major strikes that took place during the late 1800s? (page 46)
c) Why did workers begin to organize and form unions?
d) What role did Mary Harris Jones play in the labor movement?

12) Big Business (Part II)

Did you know...that Andrew Carnegie's first job was as a bobbin boy at a cotton factory in Pennsylvania, where he made about $1.20 a week. Fifty-two years later, at the age of 64, Carnegie sold his Carnegie Steel Company for $480 million.

How do you think Carnegie was able to become such a successful businessman?

11) Big Business

a) What are the benefits of investing in a 'corporation?'
b) Who was J.P. Morgan and why was he important?
c) What is Social Darwinism, and do you believe in it?
d) Why are Carnegie, Rockefeller and Stanford important figures in American history?
e) In your personal opinion, do you think the government was right in breaking up monopolies in the late 1800s?

10) The Second Industrial Revolution (Part II)

In this section, you read about several key inventions created during the late 1800s.

List the 5 main inventors that are mentioned, and then write their invention and its impact on American society. (Be sure to write in complete sentences)

INVENTOR >>> INVENTION >>> EFFECT ON AMERICAN SOCIETY

9) The Second Industrial Revolution

a) What was the Second Industrial Revolution?
b) Why do you think "patents" are important to inventors?
c) Why did people begin to pump oil from the ground?

8) Geronimo

We watched the movie "Geronimo," last week. The movie depicts the violent struggle between Native American groups and American settlers. What scene stands out to you the most from that film? In 4-5 sentences, explain why you chose that film.

7) Farming and Populism

a) How did the United States government make lands available to western settlers?
b) Would you have chosen to settle on the frontier? Why or why not?
c) What was the Populist Party, and what they hope to achieve?

6) Transcontinental Railroad (Part II)

Analyze the image above. Based on what you see and your own understanding of United States history, what ethnic group do you believe had a strong influence in the building of the transcontinental railroad?

5) The Transcontinental Railroad

Look at the above image. Based on what you see in the advertisement, why do you think people would PREFER to travel by train, and not by horse or wagon?

4) Wars for the West (Part III)

Analyze the following quote:

"I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed...The old men are all dead...It is cold, and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are-perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them I can find."

--Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, surrender speech, October 5, 1877

***What is Chief Joseph's mood as he is speaking? What is he talking about? (3-4 sentences)

3) Wars for the West (Part II)

1) What animals did Plains Indians depend on, and how did they use those animals?
2) What important event led to the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
3) Why do you think most Native American groups eventually stopped resisting the United States government?

2) Wars for the West

It is 1875, and you are a member of the Sioux nation, and the U.S. government has asked you to leave your land (after initially promising not to take it away from you) because they have discovered gold in the Dakota Territory. Some Sioux leaders want to stay and fight, but others say that too many people will die. What would you do, and why? (3-4 sentence response)

1) Miners, Ranchers, and Railroads

1) Why did Americans move West in the years following the Civil War?
2) Why was the transcontinental railroad important?
3) If you had to tell the story of Nat Love, what 3 things would you say about his life?
(Answer the questions using complete, and grammatically correct sentences.)