To get an idea of the significance of some of the inventions of this period, let us compare the impact of a few of the inventions today to the impact inventions around the turn of the century might have had on people’s lives.

Which do you think had a greater impact on the people of its time: MP3 players or the phonograph?

Image result for phonographImage result for m3 player
Which do you think had a greater impact on the people of its time: cell phones or the telegraph?

 Image result for telegraphImage result for cell phone
Which do you think had a greater impact on the people of its time: the Internet or electricity?

Image result for internetImage result for electricity


Image result for factors of productionImage result for bessemer process
Image result for sherman antitrust act

Group Activity:

At your tables, we will read and fill in the charts around Chapters 2-5.

Grab a Chromebook

rfschools.schoology.com
  • go to courses/American History
  • Gilded Age Materials
  • Big Business and the Government/An Explosion of Industrial Growth/New Inventions and Technologies/The Gilded Age


Image result for exit door Was industrialism good for industrialists, workers economy, and the environment? Why or why not?

Industrialism was good/not good for industrialists because ______.

Industrialism was good/not good for the workers because________.

Industrialism was good/not good for the economy because ______.

Industrialism was good/not good for environment because ______.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

20s Review

Image
African-Americans Leave the “Black Belt” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCdTyl141bA What percentage of black people lived in the South at this time?   About what percentage of these people moved?   Where were some of the locations they moved to? Why did most African-Americans stay in the South during and after Reconstruction?   How is the “Great Migration defined?  By 1929, how many people had resettled? When did the 2nd wave occur?  Were they going to the same places? Describe the new geographic trends seen around African American migration today… Review Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5cUmhEyvh0    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6VipKZwtpA At your Tables:  What were one or two areas of tensions you can see from our study of the 1920's?  How can you see elements of the 1920's in our society today? https://create.kahoot.it/share/the-roaring-20-s/a71ddfb9-3c0c-43d6-ae61-596b9f8371bc
Read more
Image
Good and Hard times in American 1920s-1930s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOKyxFAKWXc What were some of the good times of the 1920s? Some of the good times of the 1920s were_____and ____. What are some of the bad times of the 1930s? Some of the bad times of the 1930s were _____and _____.  Was there any good thing that this clip mentioned for the 1930s? If you did see something, what was it? There __________a good thing.   It was _____________. Posters Gallery Walk   Find 6 posters around the room to help investigate the causes and impacts of the Great Depression while filling in your Graphic Organizer . What do you know about the Great Depression? I know _______, ______, and ____ about the Great Depression.
Read more
Image
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/dustbowl/ REVIEW THE TIMELINE ON "THE DUST BOWL" What were three things you noticed about the "Dust Bowl"?  I noticed ____________,______________and____________. What were two government programs that stated as a response to the "Dust Bowl"?  Two government programs were the ________ and the _________________________. What are your impressions of "The Dust Bowl"?  Why?  My impressions of the Dust Bowl is ____________ because _______. BLACK TUESDAY What is the stock market?   The stock market is _____________. What was Black Tuesday?   Black Tuesday was ______________. Did the US Government help cause the Great Depression? Why or why not?   The US Government _________help cause the Great Depression because _______________.
Read more