Today is

Today, we are going to expand and synthesize our understandings about the industrialists and big business.

1. INCOME INEQUALITY

$1 Menu $13.8Million Menu for McD’s CEO (vs. $8.94/hr wage for workers)

2. Finish “MWBA”

3. The Americans, Ch. 6, Section 3, p. 241

WOOHOO WEDNESDAY, 12/18

Today, we are going to skip the lecture (Sorry!) and instead, continue to see the how the railroad business and its labor got stuck between a Rockefeller and a hard place!

Announcements

nUnit 2 Test Make-Up AFTERSCHOOL TODAY

nFriday Fun-Day sign-up/reminders

nRACE Exhibit EXTRA CREDIT

1. Discuss “Robber Barons and Rebels”

2. Finish “MWBA”

HANG IN THERE!

Housekeeping

1.Unit 3: Industrialization Test (After Break)

2.Extra Credit: RACE exhibit @ Seattle Ctr.

3.Turn in Drafts/Packet & DBQ Feedback (notebook)

4.Friday Fun-day: Who’s Bringing What?

2.History is a Weapon

nAnother Perspective on the Industrialists

nHoward Zinn, A People’s History of the U.S.

n AN SELECTION FROM “Robber Barons and Rebels” (CLICK HERE)

nHW: Finish reading, Answer Prompts

In your reading, annotate for the following:

1.Note at least 10 advances in technology/industry

2.Where did urbanization occur?

3.How was the government involved? Explain and discuss:

1.bribes, tariffs, subsidies

2.Sherman Anti-Trust Act

3.Supreme Court

4.What happened to immigrant labor?

5.Briefly describe JPM, JDR, AC and their resumes

3.Continue “Men Who Built America”