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=Chapter 14 Learning Objectives=

**CHAPTER OBJECTIVE**
To analyze the effects of various scientific discoveries and manufacturing innovations on the nature of work, the American labor movement, and businesses.


 * SECTION 1** "The Expansion of Industry" (pp. 436-441)
 * 1) Explain how the abundance of natural resources, new recovery and refining methods, and new uses for them led to intensive industrialization. [[image:factory-workers.jpg align="right"]]
 * 2) Identify inventions that changed the way people lived and worked.


 * SECTION 2** "The Age of the Railroads"(pp. 442-446)
 * 1) Identify the role of the railroads in unifying the country.
 * 2) List positive and negative effects of railroads on the nation's economy.
 * 3) Summarize reasons for, and outcomes of, the demand for railroad reform.


 * SECTION 3** "Big Business and Labor" (pp.447-455)
 * 1) Identify management and business strategies that contributed to the success of business tycoons such as Andrew Carnegie.
 * 2) Explain Social Darwinism and its effects on society.
 * 3) Summarize the emergence and growth of unions.
 * 4) Explain the violent reactions of industry and government to union strikes.

=Chapter 14 Assignments=

//Readings are due the next school day, unless noted otherwise// ||= **Homework Assignments** //Assignments are due the next school day, unless noted otherwise// ||
 * = **Date** ||= **In-Class Assignments** ||= **Readings**
 * = **Tuesday**
 * 2.24.15** || * Answer the questions below (over 14-1) in your notes:
 * //What factors led the U.S. to experience an industrial boom after the Civil War?//
 * //What natural resources played a crucial role in industrial development?//
 * //Describe at least 3 inventions (and their inventors) that contributed to industrial development.//
 * //How did an increased population help industrial growth?// || * Read Sections 14-1 and 14-2 || * No written assignment ||
 * = **Wednesday**
 * 2.25.15** || * Read this article and list the effects of the transcontinental railroad
 * Discuss Section 14-2
 * Read Section 14-3 pp. 447-455. For each term listed below, answer A) what is it? and B) how did it help business tycoons?
 * Vertical Integration
 * Horizontal Integration
 * Social Darwinism
 * Monopoly || * Read Section 14-3 || * Chapters 13-14 Quiz tomorrow ||
 * = **Thursday**
 * 2.26.15** || * **Quiz over Chapters 13-14 Today** || * Read Section 15-1 ||  ||

Chapter 14 Study Terms:

 * Factors contributing to industrial boom
 * Bessemer Process
 * Edwin Drake
 * Interstate Commerce Act
 * Sherman Antitrust Act
 * Credit Mobilier
 * Monopoly
 * Vertical Integration
 * Andrew Carnegie
 * Social Darwinism
 * Samuel Gompers
 * Industrial Workers of the World
 * Eugene Debs

=Chapter 14 Power Point Presentations=
 * [[file:Chapter 14 Power Point.ppt]]