Objectives
Students will:
- Summarize how robber barons came to control certain industries.
- Discuss why the development of large corporations brought both benefits and problems.
- Compare and contrast horizontal and vertical integration and show how each led to monopolies.
- Outline how the railroad system developed and changed the American economy.
- Recognize the reasons workers demanded changes in working conditions and wages, as well as how labor unions helped workers gain power.
- Identify the changes in communication and transportation that transformed America.
