Industrial Revolution: Station A NAME:_____________ 100 point

THE LORAX – Viewing Guide

Explain the setting of Thneedville.

Who is the Once-ler

What was the land like before the Once-ler came?

Did the Once-ler like the trees? Why did he chop down the first Truffula tree?

Who is the Lorax? Why does he say “I speak for the trees”?

Why did the Once-ler keep “biggering and biggering” his factory?

Were the effects of the factory acceptable OR should the Once-ler have tried to do things differently, but still make the thneeds?

How did the production of thneeds affect the local plants and animals:?Truffula TreesBar-Ba-LootsHumming FishSwomee Swans

The Lorax

Industrial Revolution : Station B: PPNT NAME:_______________ 100 POINTS CONTRIBUTIONS PURPOSE (WHY IMPORTANT)

Civil War Produced what at wars End

IDENTIFY “new” TECHNOLOGY

IDENTIFY (4) AREAS THAT FUELED THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION WHY?

IDENTIFY THE AMERICA’S FIRST “BIG” BUSINESS AND WHY?

WHO WAS CORNELIUS VANDERBILT AND WHAT DID HE DO AND OWN?

IDENTIFY THE INDUSTRY THAT LED TO AN “ECONOMIC” BOOM IN US AND WHY?

–What factors led to the rise of the American Industrial Revolution from 1870 to 1900?

WHO WAS ANDREW CARNEGIE AND WHAT DID HE DO AND WHAT INDUSTRY DID HE IMPACT AND WHY?

WHO WAS JOHN D. ROCK AND WHAT DID HE DO AND WHY?

DESCRIBE THE ‘GILDED AGE”?

iDENTIFY THE “INDUSTRIALISTS” AND WHAT DID THEY ACCOMPLISH?

WHAT STRATEGY DID “INDUSTRIALISTS” LIKE ROCKEFELLER USE TO CONTROL BUSINESS

WHAT STRATEGY DID “INDUSTRIALISTS” LIKE CARNEGIE USE TO CONTROL BUSINESS

DEFINE A “MONOPOLY” AND EXPLAIN HOW IT WOULD BE EFFECTIVE?

Industrial Revolution : Station C: NAME:_______________ 100 POINTS

Reading /Maps PDF Link

Maps/Graphs

PART ONE Analyzing Maps

The two maps above show the growth of cities in France between 1715 and 1815.

Use the information in the maps to answer the following questions.

(MAP FRANCE 1715 AND 1815)

1. Which city was larger in 1815—Lyon or Bordeaux? (circle)

2. Which city was larger in 1715—Strasbourg or Paris? (circle)

3. Which cities did not have much growth in population in this period? ____________________ How can you tell? ___________________________________________________

4. What city had the greatest increase in population between 1715 and ______________ How can you tell________________________

5.Draw a conclusion about the growth of French cities between 1715 and 1815. ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________

Analyzing Maps ( USE MAP INDUSTRIAL ENGLAND AFTER 1860)

Use the map above of Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution to answer the questions.

1. Which southern cities were shipbuilding centers? _________________________________ 2. What was the southernmost shipbuilding center?__________________________________

3. What other industries were most often located in the same area as iron and steel industries? Why do you think this happened? _________________________ _________________

4. What industry was not located near iron and steel production? Why? _________________ _________________________________________________________________________

PART 2 USING BARS AND GRAPHS: Interpreting a Bar Graph

The Industrial Revolution brought many changes to people’s lives. One result of industrialization was the growth of cities. Use the information in the chart showing the shifting population of English cities to fill in the bar graph below. 1781 is done for you.

Use your graphs to answer the questions. ENGLISH POPULATION LOCATIONS

1. Between what years did the number of English people living in cities increase 10 percent? Between __________________ and ___________________

2. By what percentage did the number of English people living in towns and villages drop between 1781 and 1891? ____________________________

3. What conclusion can you draw about the effect of the Industrial Revolution on English cities? __________________________________________________________________ __________

. Part Three: Comparing Information on a Line Graph Use the line graph to answer the questions (IRON ORE PRODUCTION)

1. Which country produced the greatest amount of iron ore: In 1860? ________________ In 1900?_________________

2. During what year was there the greatest difference between the largest and smallest ore producers? ___________________________ To become industrialized, a country needs resources (such as iron ore) to make goods. The line graph below shows iron ore production in Great Britain, the United States, and Germany in the middle to late 1800s. A long ton equals 2,240 pounds.

3. Which country was probably the leading industrial nation: In 1860? _________________ In 1900? ___________________ What shows you that? _________________________________

4. Based on the trends in the graph, which country was probably the leading industrial nation in 1910? ________________________ Why? ________________________________________

Industrial Revolution: station D: NAME:_____________BLK#_____DATE_________ORGANIZED LABOR (LABOR UNIONS)

LABOR UNION LEADER(S) MEMBERSHIP MAJOR GOALS

KNIGHTS OF LABOR(1869-1890S)

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR (AFL)(1886-PRESENT)

THEINDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD (IWW)(1897-1918)

THE CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS (CIO)(1938-PRESENT)

Compare and Contrast the “benefits” and “non-benefits” to Unions?

BENEFIT (POSITIVE) NON-BENEFIT (NEGATIVE)

Industrial Revolution: station E: NAME:_____________BLK#_____DATE_________

1: Identify the “ISSUE(s)” for the strike2. Identify the “OUTCOME” what was the end result reached for both parties?3. Explain why “STRIKES” occur and explain why they can be a “positive” or “negative action?

Labor Dispute Issues & Outcome

The Great Railway Strike of 1877

By the spring of 1877 the United States was entering its fourth year of a severe economic depression closely related to a collapse in the railroad

industry. Construction of new track, trains, and railcars had virtually halted. Wages were slashed for railroad workers. In 1877 the Baltimore and Ohio railroads cut wages 10%, which was the second cut in eight months.

The railroads also laid off large numbers of workers. Newspapers began to report cases of starvation and suicide attributed directly to unemployment and despondency. Labor disturbances began in West Virginia in July and spread westward, gaining in violence and intensity. Resentful workers halted all freight traffic. Mobs in Chicago made up largely of non-laboring gangs of thugs roamed the rail yards and shut down those of the Baltimore and Ohio and the Illinois Central. In some cases striking workers burned railroad cars, derailed trains, and committed other acts of sabotage.

The mayor of Chicago successfully called for 5000 vigilantes to help restore order. The National Guard was also deployed in several states. In one case, angry strikers armed themselves and confronted the national guard, forcing the soldiers to retreat into a roundhouse.

The strikers then surrounded the soldiers and set fire to the building they were in. In the end, the strike was put down by a combination of military force and a blanket injunction (court order) prohibiting the workers from interfering with the operation of railroads and establishing a pattern of suppression used for a half-century

The Homestead Lockout (1892)

The 1892 Homestead strike in Pennsylvania and the ensuing bloody battle instigated by the steel plant's management remain a transformational moment in U.S. history, leaving scars that have never fully healed after five generations.

The skilled workers at the steel mills in Homestead, seven miles southeast of downtown Pittsburgh, were members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers who had bargained exceptionally good wages and work rules. Homestead's management, with millionaire Andrew Carnegie as owner, was determined to lower its costs of production by breaking the union.Carnegie Steel Co. was making massive profits—a record $4.5 million just before the 1892 confrontation, which led Carnegie himself to exclaim, "Was there ever such a business!" But he and his chairman, Henry Frick, were furious workers had a voice with the union. "The mills have never been able to turn out the product they should, owing to being held back by the Amalgamated men," Frick complained to Carnegie.

Even more galling for them was that, as Pittsburgh labor historian Charles McCollester later wrote in The Point of Pittsburgh, "The skilled production workers at Homestead enjoyed wages significantly higher than at any other mill in the country."So management acted.

First, as the union's three-year contract was coming to an end in 1892, the company demanded wage cuts for 325 employees, even though the workers had already taken large pay cuts three years before. During the contract negotiations, management didn't make proposals to negotiate. It issued ultimatums to the union. The local newspaper pointed out that "it was not so much a question of disagreement as to wages, but a design upon labor organization."

Carnegie and Frick made little effort to hide what they had in mind. Their company advertised widely for strikebreakers and built a 10-foot-high fence around the plant that was topped by barbed wire. Management was determined to provoke a strike.Meanwhile, the workers organized the town on a military basis. They were "establishing pickets on eight-hour shifts, river patrols and a signaling system," according to McCollester.

Frick did what plenty of 19th-century businessmen did when they were battling unions. He hired the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, which

The Lawrence Textile Strike (1912)

In the early part of the 20th century, Lawrence, Massachusetts, was one of the most important textile towns in the United States. Its principal mills were those of the American Woolen Company whose yearly output was worth $45,000,000. The woolen and cotton mills employed over 40,000 people. Many of those were foreign-born immigrants on low-wages.

It was estimated that about 50 per cent of Lawrence textile workers were women and children aged under age eighteen. A report stated "A considerable number of the boys and girls die within the first two or three years after beginning work. Thirty-six out of every 100 of all the men and women who work in the mill die before or by the time they are twenty-five years of age." In January 1912 the America Woolen Company reduced the wages of its workers.

This caused a walk-out and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), who had been busy recruiting workers into the union, took control of the dispute. The IWW formed a strike committee with two representatives from each of the nationalities in the industry. It was decided to demand a 15 per cent increase in wages, double-time for overtime work and a 55 hour week.

The mayor of Lawrence called in the local militia and attempts were made to stop the workers from picketing. Thirty-six of the workers were arrested. Money was collected throughout America to help the strikers. A network of soup kitchens and food distribution stations were set up and striking families received from $2 to $5 cash a week. Dynamite was found in Lawrence and newspapers accused strikers of being responsible. However it was soon discovered that the American Woolen Company had paid a man $500 to plant the explosives in an attempt to discredit the IWW.

The governor of Massachusetts ordered in the state militia and during one demonstration, a fifteen-year old boy was killed by a militiaman bayonet. Soon afterwards a female striker was shot dead. Faced with growing bad publicity, on 12th March, 1912, the American Woolen Company accepted all of the strikers' demands. By the end of the month, the rest of the other textile companies in Lawrence also agreed to pay the higher wages.

Explain why “STRIKES” occur and explain why they can be a “positive” or “negative action? ( 2 COMPLETE PARAGRAPHS / 1 PARAGRAPH = 4 SENTENCES)

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