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Goal 5 Becoming an Industrial Society (1877-1900) Describe innovations in technology and business practices and assess their impact on economic, political, and social life in America 5.01 evaluate the influence of immigration and rapid industrialization on urban life. I. Create a chart to show patterns of immigration to the US form the 1800s to the 1900s. Show the groups of people who migrated and where they migrated from. Then, compare immigration trends of the 1800s to today's immigration. II. Identify Dumbbell Tenements. How could the tenements been made safer? III. Identify Ellis Island and its importance. IV. What were some urban problems at this time?

5.02 Explain how business and industrial leaders accumulated wealth and wielded political and economic power. I. Identify Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt and J.P. Morgan. A segment of society call them Robber Barons while others called them Captains of Industry. Why were they given these names? In your opinion how would you classify them? Why? II. Identify the "Gilded Age." How did it impact people's lives? III. Create a chart. Compare and contrast vertical integration and horizontal integration and show which industrial Giant used them the most. Explain why these Giants were so successful?

5.03 Assess the impact of labor unions on industry and the lives of workers. I. What were labor unions and who led them? II Compare modern day tactics used by labor unions with those of the late 1800s. III. Identify Strike and collective bargaining or arbitration. Tell how the government responded to workers who went on strike during this time. 5.04 Describe the changing role of government in economic and political life. I. Who was Thomas Nast and what contributions did he make during the Gilded Age? II. Create a graphic organizer comparing the foreign policies of Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt in Latin America, Caribbean and Asia. What were the results of their actions? III. What scandals were uncovered during the Gilded Age?