NCHE Conference
March 2010
Gilded Age Chicago: Clash Between Capital and Labor
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
How Did Gilded Age Chicago Shape Labor Relations?
Complete Lesson Plan
MATERIALS
Labor Crisis Introductory Presentation
Introductory power point on the Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor and the 1884 McCormick Factory Strike in Chicago
Note Sheet for Lesson Intro
Power point Guided Note-sheet
Secondary Source Documents
Document 1Textbook excerpt from History of the United States. McDougal Littell Inc, 1997.
**Document 1 may need to be zipped before opening.
Document 2Textbook excerpt from Out of Many. Prentice Hall Inc, 2002
Document 3Textbook excerpt from The American Vision. McGraw Hill Co., 2008.
Primary Source Documents
Document 4Clews, Henry. “The Folly of Organized Labor.” The Annals of America volume II, 1884-1894. Encyclopedia Britannica, inc. Chicago. 2003.
Document 5Simonson, Barton. “Haymarket Riot.” Colbert, David. Eyewitness to America. Vintage Books, Random House. 1998.
Document 6Zinn, Howard and Anthony Amove. “Address of August Spies: October 7, 1886.” Voices of a People’s History of the United States. Steven Stories Press, NY, 2004
Note Sheet Organizer
Reading Graphic Organizer
Educator Background Information:
http://www.chicagohs.org/dramas/act2/act2.htm
http://www.chicagohistory.org/hadc/hadctoc.htm
