Curio Class
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Baron or Builder?
Place industrialists on a line from robber baron to captain of industry using evidence cards (wages, prices, philanthropy, monopolies); the class compares placements and argues the hardest cases.
- Play style
- Role Play
- Module
- Industrialization and the Gilded Age: Big business, labor, immigration and cities
- Grade
- Grade 11 · Social Studies
- Standards
D2.His.2.9-12D2.Eco.4.9-12D2.Geo.7.9-12
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