Your TITLE PAGE

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Your TITLE PAGE

• Include a clever title for the project that
  includes the years of the Industrial Era
• Include a picture related to the Industrial Era
• Include your names, too!

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Immigrants

• List 4 reasons immigrants came from Europe to
  America
• Who settled on the East Coast?
• Who settled on the West Coast
• What was Ellis Island
• Where did immigrants live when they came to
  American cities?

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Immigrants continued

• Describe the working and pay conditions for
  immigrants using 5 adjectives

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Labor Unions

1. What happened to workers who complained in big
   businesses factories?
2. What was the purpose of labor unions?
3. What is the idea of collective bargaining?
4. What is the purpose of a strike?
5. What is a strikebreaker how did businesses use
   them to end strikes?

• In 3 or more sentences, SUMMARIZE, using the
  5Ws, The Homestead Strike in this box.

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Inventions The Telephone

• Who invented the telephone?
• Why was the invention of the telephone important?
• When was the telephone created?
• (Include a picture of the inventor his
  invention on the right side)

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Inventions The Light Bulb

• Who invented the lightbulb?
• Why was the lightbulb an important invention?
• (Include a picture of the inventor his
  invention on the right side)

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Inventions (1 more of your choice)

• Who was the inventor of your invention?
• In what year was it invented?
• Why was this invention important?
• (Include a picture of the invention its
  inventor (if you can) on the right side)

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Transportation The Bicycle

• Who invented the bicycle?
• When was it invented?
• What impact did the invention of the bike have on
  America?
• (Include a picture on the right side)

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Transportation The Automobile

• How did the invention of the automobile impact
  America?
• Who was Henry Ford what was the Model T?
• (include a picture of Ford the Model T on the
  right side)

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Transportation The Airplane

• Who were Orville Wilbur Wright?
• Explain in 2 sentences the details of their
  flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
• (include a picture of them on the right side)

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Corporations

• What is a corporation?
• Why were corporations formed?
• Who owns corporations?
• What is a share and/or a stock?
• What is a stockholder?
• When does a stock do well or do badly?
• What can stockholders do with their stocks?
• (include a picture related to corporations on the
  right side)

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Big Businesses Steel Corporations

• Who was Andrew Carnegie?
• Why did steel become popular to make and use in
  the late 1800s?
• How did the Carnegie Steel Company become the
  USAs largest steelmaker?
• Why did steel affect the growth of major cities?
• (Include a picture of a steel plant on the right
  side)

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Big Businesses Oil Companies

• List 3 things that oil is used for?
• Who was John D. Rockefeller?
• What is an oil refinery?
• What was the Standard Oil Company? What did it
  do that made it famous?
• (Include a picture on the right side)

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Business Monopolies

• What is a system of free enterprise and why
  would businesses like it?
• What is a monopoly why do businesses want to
  have it?
• What were 3 ways that big businesses unfairly
  used their size and power to get what they
  wanted?
• Why do consumers NOT like monopolies?

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Regulating Monopolies

1. What does it mean to regulate something?
2. Why did the American government try to regulate
   monopolies?
3. What was the purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act?

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The Problems of Big Businesses

• Why is competition between businesses good for
  consumers?
• What were price wars and why were they bad for
  businesses?
• What happened to small businesses because of
  price wars?
• (include a picture on the left related to this
  topic)

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Interpreting a Primary Source Political Cartoons

• Explain what this political cartoon is saying
  about monopolies their goals.

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Corruption Reform

• What was a progressive and what did they
  believe in?
• What was a social reformer?
• Define the term Corruption in Government
• Give an example of governmental corruption.
• How were big businesses controlling the way
  Americans lived?
• How were big businesses hurting the environment?
• List 3 ways children were affected by the growth
  of big cities.
• Who was Jane Addams what did she do?
• (include a picture of Jane Addams somewhere on
  this slide)

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Suffrage

• What was the suffrage movement?
• Why did suffrage get more support during the
  Industrial Era?
• Who were suffragettes?What amendment helped
  women get the right to vote?
• List 2 or more names of suffragettes.