Lesson on Friday, October 21, 2016

Aim: What new business strategies allowed businesses to weaken to eliminate competition?

Bell Ringer: Each group will describe their designated captain of industry / robber baron and conclude if he is a captain of industry or robber baron.

Objectives:

1.     Students will examine the social, political, and economic causes, course, and consequences of the second Industrial Revolution that began in the late 19^th century.  

2.     Students will determine how the development of steel, oil, transportation, communication, and business practices affected the United States economy.

Agenda:

1.        Bell Ringer (15 min) 

2.        Journal 24 – Describe the Bessemer Process.   

3.        Journal 25 – How did the assembly line change America? (15 min for both) 

4.        Create your own political cartoon based on one of the concepts related to the growth of industry (i.e. laissez faire, robber barons/captains of industry, monopolies, regulation of business, railroads, etc.). (rest of class) 

5.        Captain/Robber Baron T-Chart graded at this time. 

Home Learning: Complete your political cartoon. See rubric below.