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Chapter 18. The Rise of Industrial America, 1865 – 1900. ACT Standards. C: 1-a Evaluate the impact of new inventions and technologies of the late 19 th Century. C: 1-b Identify and evaluate the influences on business and industry in the late 19 th Century - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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• C: 1-a Evaluate the impact of new inventions and technologies of the late 19th Century.
• C: 1-b Identify and evaluate the influences on business and industry in the late 19th Century
• C: 1-c Identify labor and workforce issues including owners, managers and Social Darwinism
• C: 1-d Explain the challenges and contributions of immigrants
• C: 1-e Explain the causes and impact of urbanization• C: 1-f Compare and contrast the experiences of
African-Americans
ACT Standards
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Readings
• Read the chapter, pp. 535-565.
• You MUST read the chapter!!!!
• On line find and read a summary of the book The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair.
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Group Presentation
• An Important Industrial or Technological advancement from this time period
• Chose a group of three
• Compose and design a power point of 5 slides
• Be prepared to make your presentation within 3 days.
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Rise of Corporate America
• See graph on page 537
Write a one sentence summary of the graph on page 537.
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The Character of Industrial Change• 6 features dominated
manufacturing:
– Exploitation of coal– Spread of technology
– Control of workers– Pressure on firms to
compete– Relentless drop in prices– Of money supply to keep
pace with productivity
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Railroad Innovations• Collis P. Huntington, Central Pacific• Jay Gould, Union Pacific• James J. Hill, Northern Pacific
• Generous land grants and loan subsidies
• Magnetic telegraph• Divisions• Superintendents• Accounting systems
I’ve been
working on the
railroad all the
live-long day!
Jay Gould
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Consolidating the Railroad Industry
• Robber Barons
• Standard 4’8 ½” gauge track
• Interstate Commerce Act, 1887J.P. J. Pierpont
Morgan
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Applying the Lessons
of Railroads to Steel• Bobbin Boy $1.25 a week
• Secretary to Tom Scott,Pennsylvania Railroad1870’s first steel mill built
“Watch the COST and the PROFITS will take care of themselves.”
Vertical Integration
Andrew Carnegie
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The Trust: Creating New Forms of Corporate Organization
• Edwin L. Drake– 1st crude-oil well 1859
– Passion for cutting costs
– Standard Oil Trust 1882
John
D. Rockefeller
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The Triumph of Technology
• Thomas A. Edison
• Electrical lighting
Read “Electricity” pp. 544-545.
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Organizing Workers
• National Labor Uniton
(NLU)• Knights of Labor
• American Federation of Labor (AFL)
• Samuel Gompers