This download includes all parts (1-7) of the PPT described below:
 
All downloads include a Political Cartoon Assignment and rubric as well. Most sections contain links to relevant videos on YouTube. Enjoy!
 
PART 1 - Capitalism vs. Communism (20 slides) including: background on Adam Smith and Karl Marx, a T-chart of both economic systems, several slides where students identify which phrase matches with which economic system, visuals, and more...
 
PART 2 - Industrialization (19 slides) including: major developments in oil, steel, railroads, electricity, and communication (Standard Oil, Bessemer Process, AC vs. DC, transcontinental RR, Morse code, telephones and telegraph and more)
 
PART 3 - Monopolies, Vertical/Horizontal Integration (19 slides) including: multiple modern examples of Vertical and Horizontal for students to determine and discuss, definitions, visuals and examples for monopoly, trust, cartel, vertical and horizontal consolidation and much more...
 
PART 4 - Robber Barons & Captains of Industry (36 slides) including: industrial info, robber baron vs. captain of industry info, numerous political cartoons and much more for: Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Ford, Rockefeller, Gould, Duke, Stanford, Morgan, and Weyerhäuser
 
PART 5 - Migration and Immigration (33 slides) including: Questions and scenes from American Tale (1986), Ellis Island (1984), examples of push and pull factors, urbanization, nativists (with link to Gangs of New York scene), maps, diagrams, charts, primary sources and much much more...
 
PART 6 - Progressivism & Populism (22 slides) including: matching quotes from Edward Bellamy, Upton Sinclair and Henry George to themes of the Gilded Age (Social Decay,
Immigration, Wealth Gap, Anti-Capitalism, Whistleblowing/Muckraking, Cynicism toward Owners) and more...
 
PART 7 - Social Darwinism, Social Gospel (19 slides) including: examples of drawings suggesting racial superiority, leading Social Darwinists (e.g. Sumner) and Social Gospel advocates (Moody, Sunday) and much more...