| Unit 3:
Growing Business and Industry Frameworks for America's Past |
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Click
on the
links below -
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Historical
photo sets |
1. Energy: water wheels, steam
engines, and coal 2. Inventors and inventions: 2a. Alexander Graham Bell - the telephone 2b. Thomas Edison - the light bulb 3. Famous Captains of Industry: 3a. Cornelius Vanderbilt - shipping and railroads 3b. Andrew Carnegie - the steel industry 3c. John D. Rockefeller - the oil refining business 3d. J.P. Morgan - banking and investment 4. The fight against monopolies / trusts 5. Changes on farms, in factories, and in cities |
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| History
food feature |
Wow! Look how kitchens have changed! (an online set of old photos and drawings from around 1870 to the 1970s) | ||||||
| Guide
to the graphs |
Steel Production - 1870 to 1900 - a step by step guide to making the graphs on page 50 | ||||||
| Videos and Internet sites  Students: Check with your parents for permission before visiting Internet links. |
Inside a
textile
mill in Lowell, Massachusetts (a short video that shows
cloth
weaving
machinery inside an old textile factory that is now a museum.) How a steam locomotive works (a short video with animation) The telephone / Alexander Graham Bell (an old TV ad) Telephone operators in the old days (a short video) Thomas Edison mini-bio (a short video) Yes, We Have No Bananas (a short video demonstrating an old cylinder style Edison phonograph. The flat disc record became more common in the 1920s - see the Edison P-1 Phonograph.) Map - Manufacturing: Value Added by Manufacturing (from an online historical atlas) Maps - Railroads: Railroads in Operation 1870 (from an online historical atlas) |
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| Consider
also: |
America:
The Story of Us TV
mini-series, Episode 7, "Cities," has good video segments about Andrew
Carnegie and Thomas Edison. Episode 6, "Heartland," has a short
clip (it's near the end) about the start of the Sears mail order
company.
This widely
praised production originally ran on the History Channel. Less
than $20 on Amazon for the 3 DVD set. The Men Who Built America TV mini-series, Episode 2, "Oil Strike," is a History Channel show with a good dramatization of John D. Rockefeller's work building the Standard Oil Company. Start just past the open and program title. A good cut out point is about 20 minutes in. Dear America: So Far From Home Students love this well done dramatization of the story an Irish immigrant girl who takes a job in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts. It's available on VHS from Amazon sellers (click on "See All Buying Options"), or as a digital video purchase, also on Amazon. |
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