American Industrialization I. What Factors Caused the US to Industrialize?

American American Industrialization Industrialization

I. What Factors I. What Factors Caused the US to Caused the US to

Industrialize?Industrialize?

Abundant Raw Materials

Homestead Act of 1862Homestead Act of 1862

LAND

GRANTS

Business Savvy & Competition: Business Savvy & Competition: “Robber Barons”“Robber Barons”

Abundant Cheap Labor

Philosophies of Economic ExpansionPhilosophies of Economic Expansion

Manifest Destiny Manifest Destiny

Laissez – Faire CapitalismLaissez – Faire Capitalism

Social DarwinismSocial Darwinism

Examples of US IndustrializationExamples of US Industrialization

Steel Production

II. Problems with II. Problems with IndustrializationIndustrialization

Exploitation of workers: low pay, dangerous conditions, child labor

Pollution & Environmental Damage

vertical vertical integration integration

horizontal horizontal consolidationconsolidation

Consolidation of PowerConsolidation of Power

“Trusts” have too much power -- Undemocratic & Anti-Individual

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Labor UnionsLabor Unions

• Knights of Labor• American Federation of Labor• Industrial Workers of the World

Workers Respond: 1877Workers Respond: 1877

The Great Strike

Haymarket Affair 1886Haymarket Affair 1886

18941894