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Goal 5.1. Industrialization, Immigration, and Urban Life. Immigration Writing. Part 1: Research 4 aspects of immigration. Keep notes on your research as you will be turning it in with part 2 1. Process immigrants went through at Ellis Island to be admitted to United States
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Goal 5.1 Industrialization, Immigration, and Urban Life
Immigration Writing • Part 1: Research 4 aspects of immigration. Keep notes on your research as you will be turning it in with part 2 • 1. Process immigrants went through at Ellis Island to be admitted to United States • 2. Living conditions in the cities where many immigrants settled • 3. what work was available to the immigrants • 4. How immigrants were treated by those already in the United States • Part 2: Write a 1 page letter to your family in the country from which you came describing your experiences as an immigrant. Need to include specific information from your research.
Migration to Cities & Immigration • Ellis Island • Angel Island • Ethnic ghettos • Old vs. new immigrants?
Nativism • Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
Living and Working Conditions for immigrants • Tenements • sweatshops
Reformers & Social Gospel • Jacob Riis • Jane Addams • Social Gospel • Hull House
Urban Life in the Age of Industrialism • Electric trolley • Saloons • dance halls &cabarets • Amusement parks • Vaudeville
Goal 5.2 Rise of Big Business
Giants of Early Industry • Bessemer process • Andrew Carnegie • Vertical integration • Monopoly • Gospel of Wealth
Gospel of Wealth • Read and highlight/underline • answer questions in complete sentence using a quote from the text for each answer 1. Changes in civilization have brought about what social problem? 2. How does Andrew Carnegie define wealth? Who is it meant to benefit? 3. Explain the three ways in which Carnegie determines the wealthy administer their wealth. 4. Which procedure of administering wealth does Carnegie believe is the most beneficial to society and why?
Social Darwinism & Gilded Age • Social Darwinism • Horatio Alger • Mark Twain & Gilded Age
Goal 5.3 Workers & Labor Unions
Conditions of the Worker • Review: Industrial Revolution • Mentally • Physically • Financially-see table in Smart Notebook • Child labor
Unions • Labor unions • Craft unions • Trade unions
Knights of Labor • Factory workers, farmers, shopkeepers, office workers • African Americans • Social reforms
American Federation of Labor • Samuel Gomper • Strikes & boycotts • Collective bargaining & mediation • Arbitration • Closed shop
Employer Response to Unions • Yellow-dog contracts • Blacklists • Lockouts • Scabs • injunctions
Strikes & Confrontations • Great Railway Strike 1877 • Haymarket Riot • Homestead Strike • Pinkertons • Pullman strike • Eugene Debs
Labor Union Debate • read articles • Make list of 5 points supporting your side • Make list of 3 points supporting other side • Include for each of these 3 points, a counter argument your side could use in retaliation • Will be turning in at end of class
Unions today… • http://www2.alabamas13.com/news/2012/oct/09/why-it-matters-labor-unions-ar-4717084/ • http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2012/10/01/wal-mart-workers-tell-street-about-hard-work-low-pay/ • http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/09/06/2319095/unionism-at-arms-length.html • http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/dallas-stars/headlines/20120907-nhl-labor-negotiations-could-resume-soon-as-lockout-deadline-looms.ece