The Gilded Age: Industrialization

                
Key Terms
    1.        social Darwinism
    2.        robber Barons
    3.        economies of Scale
    4.        piece Work
    5.        anarchists
    6.        scabs
    7.        Sherman Anti-Trust Act
    8.        depression
    9.        monopoly
    10.      trust
    11.      collective bargaining
    12.      division of labor
    13.      laissez-faire
    14.      Gilded Age


Main Ideas
Know the following…..
1.        How Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Morgan made their fortunes
2.        How industrialization affected distribution of wealth, craftsmanship, and urban regions
3.        Haymarket Square Riot, Homestead Strike and Pullman Strike
4.        Assembly line work, sweatshops, coal mines
5.        Triangle Factory Fire
6.        The different motives behind the AFL and IWW “Wobblies” unions and their leaders
Samuel Gompers, William Haywood and Lucy Parsons.
7.        How the Republican government responded to the developing problems associated to
Industrialization
8.        Reasons why urban regions grew during this period.  

You will be expected to write on one of two topics: The Three Robber Barons “Gilded Gents” or
the experience of a factory worker. Be sure to review your Gilded Gent assignment and the
Assembly Line activity; web site/text book on factory work and strikes and the Triangle Factory
Fire.