Agenda for 1/5

1. The Gilded Age

A. Gilded Age Politics

• What the parties?
• What were the issues?

B. The Second Industrial Revolution

• Industrialization Crash Course

• Inventions/Innovations
• Railroads
• Problems with Industrialization and the Governments Response
• Rise of Heavy industry - Railroads, Oil, Steel, Coal
• Robber Barrons/Captains of Industry
• Horizontal/Vertical Integration
• Beliefs/Ideals of the Industrial Revolution

C. Immigration in the Industrial Age

• New v. Old Immigration
• Push/Pull Factors  

          D. Farmers Organize
          E. Growing Problems in America

HW

1. Read organized labor packet
2. Analyze documents for the "Organized Labor" DBQ
3. Write thesis to essay (have clear POV)
4. Have at least 6 specific facts to support your argument (three per body paragraph)