US History Unit 3 Project

Each group will be assigned a set of terms. Work for the project must be presented in class on Monday, Sept 23.

The each person in the group must define, and draw a small picture by hand, the words and explain how they correspond to the Industrial Age of America.

Each group will create a short skit and a Prezi or Slide Rocket presentation. Must contain a Citation document.

No PowerPoint!

Spoils System (Civil Service)

Weak Presidents (Grant/Harrison)

Credit Mobilier Scandal

Salary Grab

Political Machine

Muckrakers

Lincoln Steffens

Upton Sinclair

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Invention

Edwin L. Drake

Bessemer Process (Steel)

Th. A. Edison (Electricity/Light Bulb)

Alexander G. Bell (Telephone)

Christopher Sholes (Typewriter)

Wm. Jenney (Skyscraper)

Industrial Pollution

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Munn v. Illinois 1877

Wabash, St. Louis, & Pacific RR v. Illinois 1886

Interstate Commerce Commission 1887

Sherman Antitrust Act 1890

US v. EC Knight Co. 1895

In re Debs 1895

Plessy v. Ferguson 1908

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Unions

Scabs

Collective Bargaining

General Strike

Mother Jones

Knights of Labor (T Powderly)

Amer Fed Of Labor (S Gompers)

Itnl Ladies Garments Workers United

Industrial Workers of the World

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“Golden Door”

Ellis Island

Angel Island

Immigration

Chinese Exclusion Act

Gentlemen’s Agreement

Americanization Movement

Social Gospel Movement

Jane Addams

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National Labor Union

Socialism

Eugene V. Debs

Great Railway Strike

Haymaker Square Riot

Homestead Strike

Pullman Strike

Lawrence Textile Strike

Triangle Shirtwaist Co. Fire