Please find your assigned seat.

Quietly.
Objective
Evaluate the role of business leaders, such as Andrew Carnegie,
John Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan in transforming the United
States economy.
Standards
RH.9-10.2: Determine the central ideas or information of a
primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of
how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
Warm-up
List two Indian Wars and summarize their outcome.
The American West & The
Rise of Big Business
Chapter 13, Section 1
Chapter 14, Section 2
Homework Due Today
Select one of your headlines and write an
editorial based on the position expressed in
the headline. Editorials should be backed by
facts and sound reasoning.
One paragraph. Complete sentences.
Homework
Chapter 14 Section 2 quiz! (page 466)
Make up Chapter 13 Section 1 quiz if you have not
taken it!
Complete the Mary Lucinda Bonney Biography
worksheet

Agenda
Objective
Warm Up
Homework
Remind
Battle of Little Bighorn worksheet
Chapter 14 section 2 Vocabulary
Guided Reading


The Battle of Little Bighorn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJFz4Nxq
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Vocabulary
Entrepreneur - risk taker who uses his or her own money to
launch new ventures
Capitalism - economic system in which private businesses
run most industries
Laissez-faire - French for allow to do; describes a capitalist
system in which companies operate without government
interference
Regulation rules or legal oversight
Social Darwinism - belief that stronger people, businesses,
and nations will prosper and weaker ones will fail
Vocabulary
Complex complicated; made up of many parts
Monopoly - situation in which a company or trust has
complete control over an industry and has no competition
from other firms
John D. Rockefeller - industrial tycoon whose company,
Standard Oil, refined 90 percent of all U.S. oil by 1879
Vertical integration - process of acquiring companies that
furnish supplies needed by the parent company
Horizontal integration - process of taking over other
companies producing the same product
Vocabulary
Andrew Carnegie - industrialist who amassed
a fortune as head of the Carnegie Steel
Company, then retired and devoted his time
and fortune to support education and charity
Cornelius Vanderbilt - industrial tycoon who
made his fortune through investing in railroads
Maximize make as large as possible
Guided Reading
pg 466
As we are listening to the section, answer the Reading
Check questions.
1. What beliefs did social Darwinists hold?
2. How were proprietorships and corporations different?
3. How did Rockefeller and Carnegie gain a competitive
edge?
4. How did companies make their products available to
more people in the late 1800s?