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1. Watch this Crash Course video on Industrialization.
a. According to the video, what region is called the Industrial Heartland?

b. In 1913, The United States produced how much of the worlds industrial output?

c. What were two things that the railroad helped to create in the United States?

d. Who wrote the mystery document and in your own words, summarize it.

e. What does the video say is the key to Rockefellers success?

f. The video explains that the first union was the Knights of Labor. Based on the
video, what do you think unions do? Do you think they still exist?

2. Read this summary of Andrew Carnegies Gospel of Wealth

a. Using this summary, explain what the Gospel of Wealth is and what Andrew
Carnegie argued for.
3. Look at statistics of immigration in the United States. Scroll down to the title US
Immigration History Statistics and look at how many immigrants arrived in the U.S.
during certain years.
a. Use the information in this section to draw a bar graph of the years from 1821-
1920 (there should be ten bars on your graph). Example:
4. Read the reasons for an increase in immigration here.
a. Using the space below, design an advertisement to convince people to move to
the United States for one of the four reasons provided OR design an
advertisement to convince people to move to a city based on one of the reasons
provided. Your advertisement should include: at least one reason to move, color,
a picture, and a title. It should also use up as much of the page as possible.
5. Watch this clip about John D. Rockefellers monopoly on oil.
a. In the clip John D. Rockefeller creates a monopoly. In your own words, describe
what a monopoly is.

b. What were some of the tactics used by Rockefeller to create his monopoly? In
other words, what did he do to his competition?

c. What company, according to the video, could be considered a modern day

Standard Oil?

6. Read this excerpt from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

a. What are some of the nasty examples of food production that are used in the
excerpt?

b. Do you think this kind of thing still happens today? Why/why not?

c. Based on what we have learned in class, what city do you think this took place
in? Why do you think that?

d. What does the excerpt say they did to make smoked sausage?