The American Pageant - Chapter 24

Ch. 24: Industry Comes of Age

 

Resources

• Chapter 24 .PDF
• Lecture Notes: The New American Economy (.doc)
• Lecture Notes: Robber Barons or Benevolent Geniuses? (.doc)
• Lecture Notes: Plight of the Industrial Worker (.doc)
• Talking Points: Ingredients of Industrialization (.doc)
• Talking Points: The Economics of Industrialization (.doc) 
• Chapter 24 Outline

Readings

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Chapter 11: Robber Barons and Rebels (Discussion Guide)

Railroad Consolidation and Mechanization (p. 533)

• Listen: Adventures in Research: The Westinghouse Air Brake
• Listen: Cavalcade of America: Mr. Pullman's Palace Car

Miracles of Mechanization (p. 536)

• Listen: Cavalcade of America: Thomas Edison

Carnegie and Other Sultans of Steel (p. 539)

Rockefeller Grows an American Beauty Rose (p. 540)

• Read the essay, Robber Barons or Captains of Industry? by T.J. Stiles 

The Gospel of Wealth (p. 542)

• Read and/or listen: Carnegie Speaks: A Recording of the Gospel of Wealth (1889) 

The South in the Age of Industry (p. 543)

• Listen to "Cotton Mill Blues" - gives background information on cotton mills in the 1880s and the music that emerged. (4:37 min.)
• Listen to "Poor Man, Rich Man" and "Cotton Mill Colic" by Dave McCarn - be sure to read the notes on the first video.

The Knights of Labor (p. 552)

• Listen to "Mother Jones" from But the Women Rose, Vol. 2: Voices of Women in American History
• Listen to "The Most Dangerous Woman" by Utah Phillips (RE: Mother Jones)
• Listen to "The Death of Mother Jones" by Gene Autry

The AF of L to the Fore (p. 554)

• Read "On the Goals of Trade Unions" and answer question(s). (1883)