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The Growth of Industry
1865ndash1914Why It Matters
Innovations in technology and new business combinations helped the United Statesdevelop into a great industrial power By the year 1900 United States industrial
production was the greatest in the world
The Impact TodayInnovations in technology and economics have transformed national and regional
economies into a global economy Developments in transportation and communica-tions have made international trade an economic driving force in todayrsquos world
The American Journey Video The chapter 19 video ldquoThe Builders of OurRailroadsrdquo examines the life and hardships that immigrants faced as workers on the railroads
1867bull Canada becomes
self-governing dominion
A Johnson1865ndash1869
1879bull Edison invents
electric light
1860 1870 1880
Grant1869ndash1877
Hayes1877ndash1881
Garfield1881
Arthur1881ndash1885
1876bull Bell patents
the telephone
1886bull Trade unions
form AFL
CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry
1869bull First transcontinental
railroad completed
1870bull Rockefeller organizes
Standard Oil Company
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555
1896bull Fordrsquos first
auto built
1908bull Ford introduces
Model T
1895bull Marconi sends first radio signals
bull Lumiegravere brothers introducemotion pictures
1901bull Australia becomes
self-governingdominion
HISTORY
Chapter OverviewVisit tajglencoecom andclick on Chapter 19mdashChapter Overviews to pre-view chapter information
The Ironworkersrsquo Noontime by Thomas Pollock Anshutz Factoryworkers in Wheeling West Virginia take their noontime break
CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry
1890 1900
Cleveland1885ndash1889
Cleveland1893ndash1897
B Harrison1889ndash1893
McKinley1897ndash1901
Roosevelt1901ndash1909
1890bull Sherman Antitrust
Act passed
1903bull Wright brothers
fly first motorizedairplane
1907bull New Zealand becomes
self-governing dominion
Inventions
1
Step 1 Fold two sheets of paper in half from topto bottom Cut the papers in half along the folds
Identifying Main Ideas Study Foldable Makethis foldable to describe the growth of industryin the United States in the late 1800s
Reading and Writing As you read write whatyou learn about the developments of industryunder each appropriate tab
Step 2 Fold each of the four papers in half fromtop to bottom
Step 3 On each folded paper make a cut1 inch from the side on the top flap
Step 4 Place the folded papers one on top of theother Staple the four sections together and labeleach of the tabs Railroads Inventions BigBusiness and Industrial Workers
Cut alongthe foldlines
Staple here
Cut 1 inch fromthe edge throughthe top flap only
Railroads
1869First transcontinentalrailroad completed
1880sStandard width for railroad tracks adopted
1883Northern PacificRailroad opens
1890sFive railway linescross the country
Main IdeaA growing transportation networkspread people products and infor-mation across the nation
Key Termsconsolidation standard gaugerebate pool
Reading StrategyAnalyzing Information As you readthe section complete a diagram likethe one shown by describing the contributions of the railroad to thegrowth of industry
Read to Learnbull how the railroad barons made
huge fortunesbull how the national railroad system
changed the American economy
Section ThemeGeography and History As the rail-roads expanded the centers of someindustries shifted
Railroads Lead the Way
Rugged construction gangs labored on the Union Pacific and other railways duringthe transportation boom of the late 1800s The chorus of a favorite song told of thehard work of the tarriers or drillers
556 CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry
The role of the railroad
And drill ye tarriers drillDrill ye tarriers drillFor itrsquos work all day for sugar in
your tay
Down behind of the railway andDrill ye tarriers drillAnd blastAnd fire
Railroad ExpansionDuring the Civil War trains carried troops weapons and supplies to the front
The superior railroad system of the North played an important role in its victoryover the South In the decades after the war railroads became a driving forcebehind Americarsquos economic growth The first transcontinental railroad com-pleted in 1869 was soon followed by others By the 1890s five railway linescrossed the country and hundreds of smaller lines branched off from them The
Preview of Events
Guide to Reading
1860 1870 1880 1890
Train song sheet
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557CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry
railroad system grew rapidly In 1860 the UnitedStates had about 30000 miles (48270 km) of rail-road track By 1900 the nation had nearly 250000miles (402250 km) of track
Work songs such as ldquoJohn Henryrdquo and ldquoIrsquoveBeen Working on the Railroadrdquo were popularamong those who labored to build these miles oftrack They sang
ldquoIrsquove been working on the railroadAll the live-long dayIve been working on the railroadJust to pass the time awayrdquo
The expansion of the railroad system wasaccompanied by consolidationmdashthe practice ofcombining separate companiesmdashin the industryLarge railroad companies expanded by buyingsmaller companies or by driving them out ofbusiness Consolidation made the large compa-nies more efficient After consolidation a fewpowerful individuals known as railroad baronscontrolled the nationrsquos rail traffic
Railroad BaronsNew Yorker Cornelius Vanderbilt one of the
first railroad barons gained control of the NewYork Central line and then made a fortune by con-solidating several companies His railroad empirestretched from New York City to the Great Lakes
Another railroad baron James J Hill builtthe Great Northern line between Minnesotaand Washington State Until his death in 1916Hill continued building and directing his ever-growing business empire Collis P HuntingtonLeland Stanford and two other partnersfounded the Central Pacific which connectedCalifornia and Utah
The railroad barons were aggressive andcompetitive They lived in an age when fewlaws had been passed to regulate business andsome of their methods were highly question-able Nevertheless the railroad barons playedan important part in building the nationrsquostransportation system
Analyzing What did consolidationmean for many small companies
Economics
Railroads Stimulate the Economy
The fast-growing national rail system creatednew economic links in the country The railroadscarried raw materials such as iron ore coal andtimber to factories They also carried manufac-tured goods from factories to markets and trans-ported produce from farming areas to the cities
The national railroad system encouraged theexpanding economy in many other ways Atfirst the demand for iron tracks and locomotiveshelped the iron mining and processing indus-tries grow Around 1880 railroad companiesbegan using tracks of steelmdasha metal madestronger by adding carbon and other elementsto refined iron The use of steel in railroad tracksstimulated Americarsquos steel industry
The railroads also helped other industries tothrive The lumber industry which suppliedwood for railway ties and the coal industrywhich provided fuel for locomotives sawextraordinary growth In addition railroad com-panies provided work for thousands of peoplewho laid tracks and built stations and for thosewho manufactured railway cars and equipment
Improving the RailroadsIncreased use made it necessary for railroads
to expand and unify their systems While rail-roads were being built across the country differ-ent lines used rails of different gauges or widthsAs a result trains of one line could not useanother linersquos tracks Many early local lines car-ried goods for short distances and did not even
$
Railroads employed more workers in the late 1800sthan any other industry In the late 1800s railroadsbecame the nationrsquos largest industry It surpassed all oth-ers as a buyer of iron steel and coal and became thenationrsquos largest employer
Labor
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21765785
Trains could carry passengers fromNew York City to San Francisco inless than 10 days
By 1883 several railroads crossed the WestThe transcontinentals shipped settlers andgoods there and hauled out raw resources
The refrigerated railroad car in the1870s allowed fresh meat and produceto be transported all over the nation
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300 kilometers0Lambert Equal-Area projection
300 miles0
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TROPIC OF CANCER
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gan
L Huron
L Erie
L Superior
GreatSalt Lake
L Ontario
PaCIFIC
OCEaN
GREAT NORTHERN RR
NORTHERN PACIFIC RR
UNION PACIFIC RRCENTRAL PACIFICRR
ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC RR
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UT
HE
RN
PA
CIF
ICR
R
SOUTHERN
PACIFIC RR
ATCHISON TOPEKA
AND SANTA FE RR
KANSAS
PACIFIC RR
ALA
TENNARK
KY
NY
PA
ILL
WIS
IOWA
MO
NEBR
WYO
IDAHO
MONTN DAK
S DAK
COLO
MEXICO
CANADA
NEVUTAHCALIF
OREG
WASH
ARIZTERR N M E X
T E R R
TEX
OKLATERR
KANS
M I S S
LA
IND OHIO
WVA
VA
NC
SCGA
FLA
MINN
MICH
Houston
New Orleans
Chicago
StLouis
New YorkCity
KansasCity
Omaha
Sioux City
Los Angeles
Seattle
Tacoma
Portland
Denver
San Francisco
Cheyenne
Boulder
Silver City
Helena
Bozeman
Butte
Virginia
City
PromontoryPoint
Bismarck
DeadwoodSt Paul
Duluth
ColoradoSprings
Santa Fe
San
Antonio
Wichita
Abilene
Dodge
City
By the 1890s more than 150000 miles (241350 km) of trackshad been laid1 Identifying Which railroad connected Los Angeles to
New Orleans2 Analyzing Information Which railroads would
a traveler use from St Louis to Virginia City
connect with other lines The gaps in servicebetween the various lines made long-distancerailroad travel slow and inefficient
As the railroad companies consolidated rail-road barons saw the advantages of being part ofa national railroad network During the late1880s almost all companies adopted a standardgauge of 4 feet 85 inches as the width of therailroad track A standard gauge allowed fastershipment of goods at a reduced cost It was no
longer necessary to load and unload goods fromone train to another One train could make theentire journey
Railroad TechnologyRailway transportation also improved with
the introduction of new technology Four devel-opments were particularly important InventorGeorge Westinghouse devised air brakes thatimproved the system for stopping trains mak-ing train travel safer Janney car couplersnamed after inventor Eli H Janney made it eas-ier for railroad workers to link cars Refrigeratedcars developed by Gustavus Swift enabled therailroads to ship meat and other perishablegoods over long distances Finally George MPullman developed the Pullman sleeping carmdash
558 CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry
Major Western Railroads before 1900
RailroadsMiningcenters
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83904915
a luxury railway car with seats that convertedinto beds for overnight journeys Pullman alsointroduced improved dining cars raising traintravel to a new level of comfort
Competing for CustomersAs the railroad network expanded the rail-
road companies competed fiercely with oneanother to keep old customers and to win newones Large railroads offered secret discountscalled rebates to their biggest customersSmaller railroads that could not match theserebates were often forced out of business Giv-ing discounts to big customers raised freightrates for farmers and other customers whoshipped small amounts of goods
The railroad barons also made secret agree-ments among themselves known as pools Theydivided the railway business among their com-panies and set rates for a region With no othercompetition in its region a railroad could chargehigher rates and earn greater profits AlthoughCongress and some states passed laws to regu-late the railroads these laws did little to curb therailroad barons
Railroads Change AmericaThe growing railroad network paved the way
for American industry to expand into the WestThe center of the flour milling industry for
Checking for Understanding1 Key Terms Use each of these terms
in a sentence that will help explain itsmeaning consolidation standardgauge rebate pool
2 Reviewing Facts Describe the meth-ods used by railroad barons to drivesmaller companies out of business
Reviewing Themes3 Geography and History How did
the railroads pave the way for theexpansion of industry in the West
Critical Thinking4 Making Inferences Do you think
the federal government should haveintervened to regulate the unfair prac-tices of the railroad barons Why orwhy not
5 Organizing Information Re-createthe diagram below and identify thedevelopments in technology thatimproved railroad transportation
Analyzing Visuals6 Geography Skills Study the map
of the major western railroads thatappears on page 558 Through whatstates did the Great Northern Rail-road pass Through what cities inMontana did railroads pass
CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry 559
Art Create an ad with words andpictures to announce the devel-opment of the new Pullman sleeping car
Railroad technology
example shifted westward in the 1800s movingfrom the East Coast to Ohio to Minneapolis andfinally to Kansas City Other industries followedthe same pattern As farmers settled the GreatPlains the manufacturing center for agriculturalequipment moved from central New York Stateto Illinois and Wisconsin
Railroads also touched the lives of thousandsof Americans Trains redistributed the popula-tion They carried homesteaders into the GreatPlains and the West Trains also made it easy forpeople to move from rural areas to the cities
Time ZonesRailroads affected the way Americans
thought about time as well As train travelbecame more common people began measuringdistances by how many hours the trip wouldtake rather than by the number of miles trav-eled The spread of the railroad system led to anational system of time with four time zones
The railroads opened the entire United Statesto settlement and economic growth and unitedthe different regions of the country into a singlenetwork At the same time inventions that rev-olutionized transportation and communicationbrought Americans together in new ways
Explaining Why was adoptingstandard-gauge tracks important for the railroad industry
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15391286
560 CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry
Reading a Time Zone Map
Earthrsquos surface is divided into 24 time zones Eachzone represents 15deg longitude or the distance theearth rotates in one hour The 0deg line of longi-tudemdashthe Prime Meridianmdashis the starting pointfor figuring time around the world Traveling westfrom the Prime Meridian it becomes one hourearlier traveling east it becomes one hour laterTo read a time zone map follow these steps
bull Locate a place where you know what time it isand select another place where you wish to knowthe time
bull Notice the time zones you cross between thesetwo places
bull If the second place lies east of the first add anhour for each time zone If it lies west subtractan hour for each zone
Practicing the Skill1 Describe how US time changes as you move
from east to west
2 What US time zone lies farthest west
3 If it is 600 PM in Washington DC what time isit in San Diego California
Applying the SkillReading a Time Zone Map It takes two hoursto fly from Denver Colorado to Chicago Illinois Ifyou leave Denver at 200 AM what time will it bein Chicago when you arrive
Glencoersquos Skillbuilder InteractiveWorkbook CD-ROM Level 1 pro-vides instruction and practice in key socialstudies skills
Social StudiesSocial Studies
N
S
EW
1000 kilometers0Mercator projection
1000 miles0
150degW 120degW 90degW 60degW
30degN
60degN
ARCTIC CIRCLE
TROPIC OF CANCER
Inte
rnat
iona
l Dat
e Lin
e
Hawaii-Aleutian
Time
AlaskaTime
PacificTime
MountainTime
CentralTime
EasternTime
AtlanticTime
New-foundland
Time
100 PM
200 PM 300 PM 400 PM 500 PM 600 PM 700 PM
730 PM
1200 PM
United States Time Zones
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561CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry
1868Christopher Sholesinvents the typewriter
1876Alexander Belldevelops the telephone
1879Edison develops firstpractical lightbulb
1903The Wright brothersfly at Kitty Hawk
1908Henry Fordintroduces theModel T
In the early 1900s American songwriters were caught up in the public fascinationwith new inventions One of the most popular songs of 1905 ldquoIn My Merry Oldsmobilerdquo celebrated the automobile
Communication ChangesBy 1910 Americans in cities drove cars through streets lit with electric lights
They went to department stores where they bought everything from kitchen sinksto shoes Americans could also do their shopping by mailmdashor pick up the tele-phone and order groceries from the local store The automobile the electric lightand the telephone were all invented after 1870 Within a generation they hadbecome part of everyday life for millions of people New inventions helped peo-ple communicate more quickly over long distances Improvements in communi-cation helped unify the regions of the country and promoted economic growth
Main IdeaInventions improved the transporta-tion and communication networksthat were vital to the nationrsquos indus-trial growth
Key Termsassembly line mass production
Reading StrategyOrganizing Information As you readthe section re-create the diagrambelow to list each personrsquos inventionand to explain the significance of eachinvention to industrial growth
Read to Learnbull what changes in transportation
and communication transformedAmerica
bull how labor-saving inventionsaffected life
Section ThemeScience and Technology New inven-tions promoted economic growth
Inventions
Auto hood ornament
Invention Significance
Samuel Morse
Alexander Bell
Thomas EdisonPreview of Events
Guide to Reading
1870 1890 1910
ldquoCome away with me LucileIn my merry OldsmobileDown the road of life wersquoll flyAutomobubbling you and I
To the church wersquoll swiftly stealThen our wedding bells will pealYou can go as far as you like In my merry Oldsmobilerdquo
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8207644
The TelegraphSamuel Morse had introduced the telegraph in
1844 By 1860 the United States had thousands ofmiles of telegraph lines which were controlledfor the most part by the Western Union Tele-graph Company At telegraph offices trainedoperators transmitted messages in Morse codeTelegrams offered almost instant communicationand had many uses Shopkeepers relied ontelegrams to order goods and reporters usedthem to transmit stories to their newspapersAmericans also began sending personal mes-sages by telegram
The telegraph soon linked the United Statesand Europe In the 1860s news from Europetraveled to this country by ship and took several
weeks Cyrus Field wanted to speed up theprocess After several unsuccessful attempts in1866 Field managed to lay a telegraph cableacross the Atlantic Ocean The new transatlantictelegraph carried messages in a matter of sec-onds bringing the United States and Europecloser together
The Telephone Rings InAlexander Graham Bell invented a device that
revolutionized communications even more thanMorsersquos telegraph Born and educated in Scot-land Bell moved to the United States where hestudied ways of teaching hearing-impaired peo-ple to speak At the same time he experimentedwith sending voices through electrical wires
562 CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry
Firsts in Aviation HistoryIn less than 100 years aviators advanced from makingthe first flight in a glider to breaking the speed of sound
1853Human-carryingflight in a gliderbuilt by Sir GeorgeCayley takes place
1874Steam-poweredmonoplane isbriefly airborne
1903Wright brotherstake flight at KittyHawk
1909Louis Bleacuteriot fliesacross the EnglishChannel
1914Scheduled airline service opens betweenSt Petersburg andTampa Florida
The First Flight at Kitty Hawk
A small crowd of people assembled on the sanddunes at Kitty Hawk North Carolina to test theWrightsrsquo Flyer Covering a few hundred feet in 12 sec-onds the flight came to a halt when the Flyerrsquos wingcaught on one of the dunes It was enough to encour-age the Wrights to try further flights They would soonhave a practical aircraft and the world would have anew form of transportation
The Beginning of ControlledPowered Flight
Inventors experimented with engine-powered aircraft in the 1800s but theage of air travel did not begin until 1903at Kitty Hawk North Carolina Orvilleand Wilbur Wright brothers and bicyclemechanics built a wood-and-canvasplane with a 12-horsepower engine Onthe morning of December 17 OrvilleWright took off in their plane and flew adistance of 120 feet
Space shuttle Discovery 1990
null
8761411
563CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry
The Genius of InventionThe late 1800s saw a burst of inventiveness in
the United States Between 1860 and 1890 theUnited States government granted more than400000 patents for new inventions
Many of the inventions helped businessesoperate more efficiently Among these wereChristopher Sholesrsquos typewriter (1868) andWilliam Burroughsrsquos adding machine (1888)
Other inventions affected everyday life In1888 George Eastman invented a small box cameramdashthe Kodakmdashthat made it easier andless costly to take photographs John Thurmandeveloped a vacuum cleaner in 1899 that simpli-fied housework
1914Aerial combat
between German
and French World
War I pilots
1919First nonstop flight
across the Atlantic
Ocean
1927Lindbergh com-
pletes first nonstop
solo transatlantic
flight
1939German Heinkel is
first jet-powered
aircraft to fly
1947Chuck Yeager is
first to fly faster
than the speed of
sound
Bi-wing planeearly 1900s
Chuck Yeager andthe Bell X-1
bull The Flyer was a biplane with a light andpowerful gas engine
bull The Wrights used adjustable rudders tocontrol the aircraft as it turned
bull The two propellers were each 812 feetin diameter
bull The wingspan reached 40 feet 4 inches
bull The distance from the nose to the tailwas 21 feet 1 inch
bull The weight of the craft was 605 pounds
Taking to the Air
By 1876 Bell developed a device that trans-mitted speechmdashthe telephone While Bell waspreparing to test the device he accidentallyspilled some battery acid on his clothes In panicBell called out to his assistant in another roomldquoMr Watson come here I want yourdquo Watsonheard Bellrsquos voice coming through the tele-phone The invention was a success
Bell formed the Bell Telephone Company in1877 By the 1890s he had sold hundreds ofthousands of phones Most early telephone cus-tomers were businesses Before long thoughtelephones became common in homes
Explaining How did the telegraphaffect communication
563CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry
The Genius of InventionThe late 1800s saw a burst of inventiveness in
the United States Between 1860 and 1890 theUnited States government granted more than400000 patents for new inventions
Many of the inventions helped businessesoperate more efficiently Among these wereChristopher Sholesrsquos typewriter (1868) andWilliam Burroughsrsquos adding machine (1888)
Other inventions affected everyday life In1888 George Eastman invented a small box cameramdashthe Kodakmdashthat made it easier andless costly to take photographs John Thurmandeveloped a vacuum cleaner in 1899 that simpli-fied housework
1914Aerial combat
between German
and French World
War I pilots
1919First nonstop flight
across the Atlantic
Ocean
1927Lindbergh com-
pletes first nonstop
solo transatlantic
flight
1939German Heinkel is
first jet-powered
aircraft to fly
1947Chuck Yeager is
first to fly faster
than the speed of
sound
Bi-wing planeearly 1900s
Chuck Yeager andthe Bell X-1
bull The Flyer was a biplane with a light andpowerful gas engine
bull The Wrights used adjustable rudders tocontrol the aircraft as it turned
bull The two propellers were each 812 feetin diameter
bull The wingspan reached 40 feet 4 inches
bull The distance from the nose to the tailwas 21 feet 1 inch
bull The weight of the craft was 605 pounds
Taking to the Air
By 1876 Bell developed a device that trans-mitted speechmdashthe telephone While Bell waspreparing to test the device he accidentallyspilled some battery acid on his clothes In panicBell called out to his assistant in another roomldquoMr Watson come here I want yourdquo Watsonheard Bellrsquos voice coming through the tele-phone The invention was a success
Bell formed the Bell Telephone Company in1877 By the 1890s he had sold hundreds ofthousands of phones Most early telephone cus-tomers were businesses Before long thoughtelephones became common in homes
Explaining How did the telegraphaffect communication
null
8860671
The Wizard of Menlo ParkThomas Edison was called ldquodullrdquo by his
teachers Because of poor hearing he had troublein school and often didnrsquot attend His motherfinally removed him from school and taughthim at home He loved anything related to sci-ence and she allowed him to set up a chemistrylab in the familyrsquos basement When he was 12he got a job working for the railroad where heset up a new lab in an empty freight car Oneday Edison saved the life of a child who hadfallen onto the tracks of an oncoming train Thechildrsquos father took an interest in Edison andtaught him to use the telegraph Edisonrsquos firstinvention was a gadget that sent automatic tele-graph signalsmdashwhich he invented so he couldsleep on the job
While still in his 20s Edison decided to go intothe ldquoinvention businessrdquo In 1876 Edison set up aworkshop in Menlo Park New Jersey Out of thisfamous laboratory came the phonograph themotion picture projector the telephone transmit-ter and the storage battery But Edisonrsquos mostimportant invention was the electric lightbulb
Edison developed the first workable lightbulbin 1879 He then designed power plants thatcould produce electric power and distribute it tolightbulbs For Christmas in 1880 Edison
used 40 bulbs to light up Menlo Park Visitorsflocked to see the ldquolight of the futurerdquo He builtthe first central electric power plant in 1882 inNew York Citymdashilluminating 85 buildings
Inventor George Westinghouse took ThomasEdisonrsquos work with electricity even further In1885 Westinghouse developed and built trans-formers that could send electric power morecheaply over longer distances Soon electricitypowered factories trolleys streetlights andlamps all over America Westinghouse alsodeveloped a system for transporting natural gasand invented many safety devices
African American InventorsA number of African Americans contributed to
the era of invention Lewis Howard Latimer anengineer developed an improved filament forthe lightbulb and joined Thomas Edisonrsquos com-pany Granville Woods an electrical andmechanical engineer from Ohio patented dozensof inventions Among them were an electric incu-bator and railroad improvements such as an elec-tromagnetic brake and an automatic circuitbreaker Elijah McCoy invented a mechanism foroiling machinery
Jan E Matzeliger another African Americaninventor developed a shoe-making machinethat performed many steps previously done byhand His device which revolutionized the shoeindustry was adopted in shoe factories in theUnited States and overseas
Evaluating Which of Edisonrsquosinventions do you think is the most valuable to our worldExplain your reasoning
A Changing SocietyIn the 1900s improvements ushered in a new
era of transportation After a period of experi-mentation the automobile became a practicalmethod of getting from place to place
Henry Fordrsquos AutomobilesHenry Ford wanted to build an inexpensive
car that would last a lifetime While working asan engineer in Detroit Michigan in the 1890sFord had experimented with an automobile
564 CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry
Thomas Edison
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20668536
engine powered by gasoline In 1903 he estab-lished an automaking company and begandesigning cars
In 1906 Ford had an idea for a new type of carHe told Charles Sorenson later Fordrsquos generalsuperintendent ldquoWersquore going to get a car nowthat we can make in great volume and get theprices way downrdquo For the next year Ford andSorenson worked on the Model T building thecar and testing it on rough roads In 1908 Fordintroduced the Model T to the public Sorensondescribed the sturdy black vehicle as
ldquo a car which anyone could afford to buywhich anyone could drive anywhere and whichalmost anyone could keep in repairrdquo
These qualities made the Model T immenselypopular During the next 18 years Fordrsquos com-pany sold 15 million Model Trsquos Henry Ford also pioneered a new less expensive way to manu-facture carsmdashthe assembly line On the assem-bly line each worker performed an assignedtask again and again at a certain stage in the pro-duction of the automobile The assembly line
Changing the Way We Live
Inventions American ingenuity innovation and imagination led to the inventions that changed the way we live and how we communicate
Kodak Camera In 1888George Eastman invented asmall camera that made iteasier and less costly to takephotographs
The Telephone Alexander Graham Belldemonstrated the telephone in 1876The telephone soon became a necessityBy 1900 there were 2 million in use
Lighting the World Lewis Latimer improved onEdisonrsquos version creating a bulb that lasted muchlonger and developed the threaded socket Latimerdirected the installation of electric street lights inNew York City Philadelphia Montreal and London
Phonograph The first practicalphonograph was built byThomas Edison in 1877
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566 CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry
Mostly Mostly Both urban Mostly usedrural use urban use and rural by business
and industry
up to then service wasonly to post offices Bythe 1890s the US PostOffice had expandedits delivery service inrural areas
Merchants could nowsend goods across thecountry nearly as easilyas across town Some firms developed mailorder businesses receiving and shipping ordersby mail Companies such as Montgomery Wardand Sears Roebuck published catalogs thatoffered a wide range of goods from shoes tofarm equipment Catalogs introduced rural fam-ilies to a wide assortment of goods not found incountry stores
Chain storesmdashstores with identical branchesin many placesmdashgrew rapidly FW Wool-worthrsquos chain of ldquofive-and-ten-cent storesrdquo spe-cialized in the sale of everyday household andpersonal items at bargain prices By 1911 morethan a thousand Woolworthrsquos were in operationThe Woolworth Building erected in New YorkCity in 1913 stood 792 feet (241 meters) tallmdashthetallest building in the world at that time
Describing What qualities madethe Model T popular
1912 Model T Ford
HISTORY
Student Web ActivityVisit tajglencoecom andclick on Chapter 19mdash
Student Web Activities
for an activity on inven-tions
Science Write a one-page paperdescribing how the inventions men-tioned in this section changed theway Americans viewed the worldDiscuss how these inventions ledto further advances in scientifictheory
revolutionized industry enabling manufactur-ers to produce large quantities of goods morequickly This mass production of goodsdecreased manufacturing costs so productscould be sold more cheaply
Selling GoodsWith factories churning out more and more
products merchants looked for better ways tosell their goods One way was through themail In 1863 mail delivery to homes beganmdash
Checking for Understanding
1 Key Terms Use the terms assembly
line and mass production in a com-plete sentence that explains theirmeaning
2 Reviewing Facts Name and describetwo inventions that changed the way Americans communicated in the 1800s
Reviewing Themes
3 Science and Technology How wastransportation improved during theearly 1900s
Critical Thinking
4 Drawing Conclusions Which inven-tion do you think brought about themost dramatic change in peoplersquoslives Explain
5 Organizing Information Re-createthe diagram below From thedescription of inventions in this section classify each invention in one of the categories
Analyzing Visuals
6 Artifacts Study the photographs ofthe inventions and products thatappear in Section 2 Which haveundergone the greatest change Why do you think this is so
566 CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry
Mostly Mostly Both urban Mostly usedrural use urban use and rural by business
and industry
up to then service wasonly to post offices Bythe 1890s the US PostOffice had expandedits delivery service inrural areas
Merchants could nowsend goods across thecountry nearly as easilyas across town Some firms developed mailorder businesses receiving and shipping ordersby mail Companies such as Montgomery Wardand Sears Roebuck published catalogs thatoffered a wide range of goods from shoes tofarm equipment Catalogs introduced rural fam-ilies to a wide assortment of goods not found incountry stores
Chain storesmdashstores with identical branchesin many placesmdashgrew rapidly FW Wool-worthrsquos chain of ldquofive-and-ten-cent storesrdquo spe-cialized in the sale of everyday household andpersonal items at bargain prices By 1911 morethan a thousand Woolworthrsquos were in operationThe Woolworth Building erected in New YorkCity in 1913 stood 792 feet (241 meters) tallmdashthetallest building in the world at that time
Describing What qualities madethe Model T popular
1912 Model T Ford
HISTORY
Student Web ActivityVisit tajglencoecom andclick on Chapter 19mdash
Student Web Activities
for an activity on inven-tions
Science Write a one-page paperdescribing how the inventions men-tioned in this section changed theway Americans viewed the worldDiscuss how these inventions ledto further advances in scientifictheory
revolutionized industry enabling manufactur-ers to produce large quantities of goods morequickly This mass production of goodsdecreased manufacturing costs so productscould be sold more cheaply
Selling GoodsWith factories churning out more and more
products merchants looked for better ways tosell their goods One way was through themail In 1863 mail delivery to homes beganmdash
Checking for Understanding
1 Key Terms Use the terms assembly
line and mass production in a com-plete sentence that explains theirmeaning
2 Reviewing Facts Name and describetwo inventions that changed the way Americans communicated in the 1800s
Reviewing Themes
3 Science and Technology How wastransportation improved during theearly 1900s
Critical Thinking
4 Drawing Conclusions Which inven-tion do you think brought about themost dramatic change in peoplersquoslives Explain
5 Organizing Information Re-createthe diagram below From thedescription of inventions in this section classify each invention in one of the categories
Analyzing Visuals
6 Artifacts Study the photographs ofthe inventions and products thatappear in Section 2 Which haveundergone the greatest change Why do you think this is so
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1859Oil discovered inTitusville Pennsylvania
1870Rockefeller organizes theStandard Oil Company
1890Sherman Antitrust Actprohibits monopolies
1900Andrew Carnegie rulesthe steel industry
Main IdeaBusiness growth was driven by theformation of corporations and theambition of their owners
Key Termscorporation stock shareholderdividend horizontal integrationtrust monopoly vertical integra-tion philanthropy merger
Reading StrategyAnalyzing Information As you readthe section re-create the diagrambelow and explain the significance ofeach term to business in the late1800s
Read to Learnbull how new discoveries and inven-
tions helped industries growbull why the development of large cor-
porations brought both benefitsand problems
Section ThemeEconomic Factors Corporationschanged the American economy ofthe late 1800s
An Age of Big Business
CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry
John D Rockefeller a young oil man never tired until he got what he wanted Oneperson commented ldquoThe only time I ever saw John Rockefeller enthusiastic was when areport came in that his buyer had secured a cargo of oil at a figure much below themarket price He bounded from his chair with a shout of joy danced up and downhugged me threw up his hat acted so like a madman that I have never forgotten it rdquo
Foundations for GrowthIn the hills of western Pennsylvania a sticky black substancemdashpetroleummdash
seeped from the ground For a while promoters sold the oil as medicine Thenin the 1850s researchers found they could burn petroleum to produce heat andsmoke-free light It could also be used to lubricate machinery Suddenly oilbecame valuable A former railroad conductor named Edwin L Drake believedthat he could find petroleum by digging a well People thought Drake waswrong Few people knew that pools of oil did indeed exist underground
John D Rockefeller
Significance
Shareholders
Stock exchanges
Mergers
Preview of Events
Guide to Reading
1850 1875 1900
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In 1859 Drake decided to test his belief Hedrilled a well in Titusville Pennsylvaniaand struck oil This led to the creation of amultimillion-dollar petroleum industry
Factors of ProductionThe period from the end of the Civil War to
1900 was an era of unmatched economic growthin the United States New methods in technologyand business allowed the country to tap its richsupply of natural resources increase its produc-tion and raise the money needed for growthThe growing transportation system made it eas-ier for merchants to reach distant markets
The change from an agricultural economy toan industrial one was possible because theUnited States had the resources needed for agrowing economy Among these resources werewhat economists call the factors of productionland labor and capital
The first factor of production land means notjust the land itself but all natural resources TheUnited States held a variety of natural resourcesthat were useful for industrial production
The second production factor is labor Largenumbers of workers were needed to turn rawmaterials into goods This need was met by therapid growth of population Between 1860 and1900 the population of the country morethan doubled
The third productionfactor capital is the equip-mentmdashbuildings machin-ery and toolsmdashused inproduction Land and laborare needed to produce capitalgoods These goods in turnare essential for the produc-tion of consumer goods
The term ldquocapitalrdquo is alsoused to mean money for invest-ment Huge amounts of moneywere needed to finance industrialgrowth One source of money wasthe selling of stock by corporationsAnother was corporate savings orbusinesses investing a portion oftheir earnings in better equipment
Raising CapitalWith the economy growing after the Civil
War many railroads and other businesseslooked for ways to expand To do so they had toraise capital They needed capital to buy rawmaterials and equipment to pay workers andto cover shipping and advertising costs
One way a company could raise capital was bybecoming a corporation A corporation is a com-pany that sells shares or stock of its business tothe public The people who invest in the corpora-tion by buying stock are its shareholders or partial owners
In good times shareholders earn dividendsmdashcash payments from the corporationrsquos profitsmdashon the stock they own If the companyprospers its stock rises in value and the share-holders can sell it for a profit If the companyfails however the shareholders lose theirinvestment In the late 1800s hundreds of thou-sands of people shared in corporate profits bybuying and selling stocks in special marketsknown as stock exchanges
Growth of CorporationsRailroads were the first businesses to form
corporations or ldquoincorporaterdquo Soon manufac-turing firms and other busi-nesses were incorporating as well The growth of corpo-rations helped fuel Amer-icarsquos industrial expansion inthe years following theCivil War
Banks played a majorrole in this period of economic growth Busi-nesses borrowed moneyfrom banks to start orexpand their opera-tions The banks inturn made profits onthe loans
Explaining What are dividends
568 CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry
Sign advertising oil
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569CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry
The Oil BusinessThe oil industry grew rapidly in the late 1800s
Edwin Drakersquos Titusville well produced 15 bar-rels of petroleum a day As word of his successspread prospectors and investors hurried towestern Pennsylvania ldquoOil rushrdquo towns withnames such as Oil City and Petroleum Centersprang up overnight The oil boom expanded asprospectors struck oil in Ohio and West Virginia
John D RockefellerBorn in Richford New York in 1839 John D
Rockefeller made his fortune from oil WhenRockefeller was 26 years old he and four part-ners set up an oil refinerymdasha plant to processoilmdashin Cleveland Ohio
In 1870 Rockefeller organized the StandardOil Company of Ohio and set out to dominatethe oil industry He acquired most of the oilrefineries in Cleveland and other cities
One method Rockefeller used to build hisempire was horizontal integrationmdashcombiningcompeting firms into one corporation The cor-poration produced and used its own tank carspipelines and even its own wooden barrelsmdashmade from forests owned by Standard Oil Stan-dard Oil grew in wealth and power becomingthe most famous corporate empire of the day
The Standard Oil TrustTo strengthen Standard Oilrsquos position in the
oil industry Rockefeller lowered his prices todrive his competitors out of business In addi-tion he pressured customers not to deal withrival oil companies and he persuaded the rail-roads to grant him rebates in exchange for hisbusiness
Rockefeller increased his control of the oilindustry in 1882 by forming a trust a group ofcompanies managed by the same board of direc-tors First he acquired stock in many different oilcompanies Then the shareholders of these com-panies traded their stock for Standard Oil stockwhich paid higher dividends This gave Stan-dard Oilrsquos board of directors ownership of the
B GovernmentA Standard Oil C SuppliersA
B
C
Standard Oil was often portrayed as a ldquomonopoly monsterrdquowith its arms reaching out to control government and sup-pliers Why do you think the cartoonist chose anoctopus to represent Standard Oil
Analyzing Political Cartoons
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12491503
other companiesrsquo stock and the right to managethose companies Rockefeller had created amonopolymdashalmost total control by a single pro-ducermdashof the oil industry
Explaining What method did Rockefeller use to build his oil empire
The Steel BusinessSteel also became a huge business in the late
1800s Steel is a strong and long-lasting form ofiron treated with carbonmdashthe ideal material forrailroad tracks bridges and many other prod-ucts Before the 1860s however steel was notwidely used because it was expensive to manu-facture The development of new manufacturingtechniques helped to overcome this problem
Steel Industry GrowthTwo new methods of making steelmdashthe
Bessemer process developed by Henry Besse-mer of England and the open-hearth processmdashchanged the industry With the new methodsmills could produce steel at affordable pricesand in large quantities In the 1870s large steelmills emerged close to sources of iron ore in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio
570 CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania became thesteel capital of the United States Citieslocated near the mines and close towaterways like Cleveland ChicagoDetroit and Birmingham Alabamaalso became centers of steel production
Andrew CarnegieThe leading figure in the early years
of the American steel industry wasAndrew Carnegie son of a Scottishimmigrant Starting as a telegraph oper-ator Carnegie worked his way up tobecome manager of the PennsylvaniaRailroad In 1865 he left that job toinvest in the growing iron industry
Carnegie soon realized that steelwould have an enormous market Afterlearning about the Bessemer process hebuilt a steel plant near Pittsburgh thatused the new process Carnegie named
the plant the J Edgar Thompson Steel Worksafter the president of the Pennsylvania Rail-roadmdashhis biggest customer
Vertical IntegrationBy 1890 Andrew Carnegie dominated the steel
industry His company became powerful throughvertical integration acquiring companies thatprovided the equipment and services he neededCarnegie bought iron and coal mines ware-houses ore ships and railroads to gain control ofall parts of the business of making and sellingsteel When Carnegie combined all his holdingsinto the Carnegie Steel Company in 1900 he wasproducing one-third of the nationrsquos steel
In 1901 Carnegie sold his steel company tobanker J Pierpont Morgan Morgan combinedthe Carnegie company with other businesses toform the United States Steel Corporation theworldrsquos first billion-dollar corporation
PhilanthropistsAndrew Carnegie John D Rockefeller and
other industrial millionaires of the time grewinterested in philanthropymdashthe use of money tobenefit the community The philanthropistsfounded schools universities and other civicinstitutions across the United States
ldquoSuccess can be attainedin any branch of
human labor Thereis always room at
the top in everypursuitrdquo
mdashAndrew Carnegie 1903
other companiesrsquo stock and the right to managethose companies Rockefeller had created amonopolymdashalmost total control by a single pro-ducermdashof the oil industry
Explaining What method did Rockefeller use to build his oil empire
The Steel BusinessSteel also became a huge business in the late
1800s Steel is a strong and long-lasting form ofiron treated with carbonmdashthe ideal material forrailroad tracks bridges and many other prod-ucts Before the 1860s however steel was notwidely used because it was expensive to manu-facture The development of new manufacturingtechniques helped to overcome this problem
Steel Industry GrowthTwo new methods of making steelmdashthe
Bessemer process developed by Henry Besse-mer of England and the open-hearth processmdashchanged the industry With the new methodsmills could produce steel at affordable pricesand in large quantities In the 1870s large steelmills emerged close to sources of iron ore in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio
570 CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania became thesteel capital of the United States Citieslocated near the mines and close towaterways like Cleveland ChicagoDetroit and Birmingham Alabamaalso became centers of steel production
Andrew CarnegieThe leading figure in the early years
of the American steel industry wasAndrew Carnegie son of a Scottishimmigrant Starting as a telegraph oper-ator Carnegie worked his way up tobecome manager of the PennsylvaniaRailroad In 1865 he left that job toinvest in the growing iron industry
Carnegie soon realized that steelwould have an enormous market Afterlearning about the Bessemer process hebuilt a steel plant near Pittsburgh thatused the new process Carnegie named
the plant the J Edgar Thompson Steel Worksafter the president of the Pennsylvania Rail-roadmdashhis biggest customer
Vertical IntegrationBy 1890 Andrew Carnegie dominated the steel
industry His company became powerful throughvertical integration acquiring companies thatprovided the equipment and services he neededCarnegie bought iron and coal mines ware-houses ore ships and railroads to gain control ofall parts of the business of making and sellingsteel When Carnegie combined all his holdingsinto the Carnegie Steel Company in 1900 he wasproducing one-third of the nationrsquos steel
In 1901 Carnegie sold his steel company tobanker J Pierpont Morgan Morgan combinedthe Carnegie company with other businesses toform the United States Steel Corporation theworldrsquos first billion-dollar corporation
PhilanthropistsAndrew Carnegie John D Rockefeller and
other industrial millionaires of the time grewinterested in philanthropymdashthe use of money tobenefit the community The philanthropistsfounded schools universities and other civicinstitutions across the United States
ldquoSuccess can be attainedin any branch of
human labor Thereis always room at
the top in everypursuitrdquo
mdashAndrew Carnegie 1903
null
19012212
Carnegie donated $350 million to variousorganizations He built Carnegie Hall in NewYork City one of the worldrsquos most famous con-cert halls the Carnegie Foundation for theAdvancement of Teaching and more than 2000libraries worldwide Rockefeller used his for-tune to establish the University of Chicago in1890 and New Yorkrsquos Rockefeller Institute forMedical Research
Corporations Grow LargerIn 1889 New Jersey encouraged the trend
toward business monopolies by allowing hold-ing companies to obtain charters a practice thatsome states prohibited A holding companywould buy controlling interests in the stock ofother companies instead of purchasing the com-panies outright Rockefeller formed StandardOil of New Jersey so that the corporation couldexpand its holdings Other states also passedlaws that made corporate mergersmdashthe combin-ing of companiesmdasheasier
Mergers concentrated economic power in afew giant corporations and a few powerful indi-viduals such as Rockefeller and banker J Pier-pont Morgan By 1900 one-third of all Americanmanufacturing was controlled by just 1 percentof the countryrsquos corporations These giant cor-porations were the driving force behind the
great economic growth of the period but theyalso posed problems On the one hand manyAmericans admired the efficiencies that largebusinesses provided On the other hand someargued that a lack of competition hurt con-sumers Without competition corporations hadno reason to keep their prices low or to improvetheir goods and services
Government RegulationState governments responded to the growing
opposition to trusts and monopolies During the1880s several states passed laws restrictingbusiness combinations Corporations howeveravoided these laws by doing business in statesthat had no such laws
Public pressure for a federal law to prohibittrusts and monopolies led Congress to pass theSherman Antitrust Act in 1890 The law soughtldquoto protect trade and commerce against unlawfulrestraint and monopolyrdquo The act did not clearlydefine either ldquotrustsrdquo or ldquomonopoliesrdquo however
In its early years the Sherman Antitrust Act didlittle to curb the power of big business By con-trast in the 1890s the government did use the actto stop a strike by railroad workers that threat-ened to ldquorestrainrdquo the nationrsquos mail delivery
Comparing How does vertical inte-gration differ from horizontal integration
Checking for Understanding1 Key Terms Use the key terms that
follow to write a newspaper articleabout Andrew Carnegie corpora-tion monopoly vertical integra-tion philanthropy
2 Reviewing Facts What cities becamecenters of steel production in the late1800s
Reviewing Themes3 Economic Factors Summarize the
steps that John D Rockefeller took togain control of the oil industry
Critical Thinking4 Determining Cause and Effect Re-
create the diagram below and list thebenefits of competition to consumers
5 Comparing Compare the methodsused by Rockefeller and Carnegie to build their industrial empiresDescribe any differences between the two
Analyzing Visuals6 Analyzing Political Cartoons Study
the cartoon on page 569 Whom dothe figures represent What is thecartoon saying about the Standard Oil Company
CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry 571
Citizenship Research to find a phi-lanthropist who has provided ben-efits to the community in whichyou livemdashin the past or presentShare your findings with the class
Competition
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1869Knights of Labororganized
1877Railroad workerson strike
1886Riots erupt in Haymarket Square
Main IdeaWorkers organized to demand betterpay and working conditions
Key Termssweatshop trade union collectivebargaining strikebreaker injunc-tion
Reading StrategyOrganizing Information As you readthe section re-create the diagrambelow and list actions labor unionstook to improve working conditions
Read to Learnbull why workers demanded changes in
their working conditions andwages
bull how labor unions helped workersgain economic and political power
Section ThemeGroups and Institutions Industrialworkers labored long hours for low pay
Industrial Workers
572 CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry
Labor Unions
Preview of Events
Guide to Reading
1870 1880 1890
On a spring day in 1886 about 12000 workers in Chicagorsquos Haymarket Squaremanufacturing district were on strike Nearly all were immigrants and many wore smallred ribbons on their jackets At 2 orsquoclock a man climbed up on an empty freight carnear the crowd He moved to the edge of the roof and waved frantically at the crowdbelow ldquoStand firmrdquo he yelled ldquoLet every man stand shoulder to shoulder and we willwin this fight We must have our rights Strike while the iron is hot rdquo
Working ConditionsThe industrial growth of the late 1800s created new jobs Growth also raised
the standard of living for many American workers That is necessities and lux-uries were more available and affordable Yet workers paid a price for economicprogress Factories had once been small workplaces where employers andemployees knew one another and often worked side by side As mass produc-tion spread however factories became larger and less personal
Haymarket Riotnews report
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CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry 573
Industrial laborers worked for 10 or 12 hours aday six days a week They could be fired at anytime for any reason Many lost their jobs duringbusiness downturns or were replaced by immi-grants who were willing to work for lower pay
Factories and mines were noisy unhealthy andunsafe Accidents were common Steel workerssuffered burns from spills of hot steel Coal min-ers died in cave-ins and from the effects of gasand coal dust Textile workersrsquo lungs were dam-aged by airborne lint Garment workers toiled incrowded urban factories called sweatshopswhere their eyesight was ruined by sewing forhours in poor light Filled with flammable mate-rials the sweatshops were also terrible firetraps (See page 971 for a first-person account of sweatshop conditions)
Women WorkersAlthough the majority of working women in
the late 1800s had jobs as domestic servantswomen also joined the industrial workforceespecially the textile industry By 1900 morethan one million women worked in industryHowever because no laws regulated workersrsquosalaries women generally received about half ofwhat men earned for the same work
Child LaborIndustries also hired children In 1900 hun-
dreds of thousands of children under 16 years ofage worked in factories Concerned groupsbrought child labor to the attention of their statelegislatures As a result many states passed child-labor laws These laws stated that children work-ing in factories had to be at least 12 years old andshould not work more than 10 hours a dayEmployers widely ignored child-labor lawshowever Also the laws did not apply to agricul-ture which employed about one million children
Examining How did mass produc-tion change the size of factories
Labor Unions FormDissatisfied workers organized into groupsmdash
labor unionsmdashto demand better pay and work-ing conditions from their employers Earlier inthe 1800s skilled workers had formed unions to
represent workers in certain crafts or tradessuch as carpentry These trade unions had littleinfluence because each represented only onetrade By the mid-1800s labor leaders looked toexpand their unions
In 1869 garment cutters in Philadelphiafounded the Noble and Holy Order of theKnights of Labor Employers fired workers whojoined labor organizations so the Knights metsecretly and used special handshakes to identifyeach other Under the leadership of Terence VPowderly the Knights of Labor became anational labor organization in the 1880s Unlikemost unions the Knights recruited people whohad been kept out of trade unions includingwomen African Americans immigrants andunskilled laborers
The Knights of Labor grew rapidly to morethan 700000 members by 1886 However a waveof strikes turned public opinion against the unionand it lost members and power in the 1890s
In 1881 a group of national trade unionsformed a federation that five years later becameknown as the American Federation of Labor(AFL) The AFL represented skilled workers invarious crafts
Young coal miners in Kingston Pennsylvania c 1900
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Women and the UnionsMany unions would not admit women work-
ers so some women formed their own unionsMary Harris Jones better known as MotherJones spent 50 years fighting for workersrsquo rights
In 1911 a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirt-waist Company factory a crowded sweatshopin New York City The workers mostly youngimmigrant women could not escape from thebuilding because the company had locked thedoors to prevent employees from leaving earlyNearly 150 workers died in the fire The disasterled the International Ladiesrsquo Garment WorkersUnion (ILGWU) to push for a safer workingenvironment
Comparing Who was eligible formembership in the AFL In the Knights of Labor
574 CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry
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The strike was the major weapon for workers against the man-agement for whom they worked1 Location Which strikes involved miners2 Analyzing Information Which strike occurred in
Martinsburg
The AFL was led by Samuel Gompers thetough practical-minded president of the CigarMakersrsquo Union The organization pressed forhigher wages shorter hours better workingconditions and the right to bargain collectivelywith employers In collective bargainingunions represent workers in bargaining withmanagement
Although violent strikes turned public feelingagainst workers and unions in the late 1880s theAFL survived and grew By 1904 the AFLclaimed more than 16 million members
Laborrsquos Struggle for Justice 1877ndash1914
77
88
66
55
44
33
22
111877 Great Railway Strike Workers protest pay cuts
1886 Haymarket Affair
Labor rally ends in violence
1892 New Orleans
Workers from 42 unions demand shorter hours and better pay
1892 Homestead Strike
Steelworkers protest wage cut
1892 Silver Mines Unrest
State jails hundreds of striking workers
1894 Pullman Strike
Federal troops quell riots
1902 Anthracite Coal Strike
Miners strike to win union recognition
1914 Ludlow Massacre
State militia burns striking miners tent colony
Labor Unrest
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83121284
The Unions ActEconomic depressions in the 1870s and the
1890s led companies to fire workers and lowerwages Unions responded with large strikes thatsometimes sparked violence
Economic depression hit the nation followinga financial panic in 1873 To cut costs companiesforced their workers to take pay cuts In July1877 angry strikers burned rail yards ripped uptrack and destroyed railroad property The com-panies hired strikebreakers to replace the strik-ing workers and federal troops restored order
Antilabor feeling grew stronger after a bloodyclash between police and strikers in ChicagorsquosHaymarket Square in May 1886 Striking work-ers from the McCormick Harvester Companygathered to protest the killings of four strikersthe previous day When police ordered thecrowd to break up an unidentified person threwa bomb that killed a police officer Several morewere killed in a riot that followed Following theHaymarket Riot many Americans associatedthe labor movement with terrorism and disorder
In 1892 workers went on strike at AndrewCarnegiersquos steel plant in Homestead Pennsylva-nia Plant managers had cut workersrsquo wageshoping to weaken the steelworkersrsquo unionWhen the union called a strike Homesteadmanagers hired nonunion workers and brought
in 300 armed guards to protect them A fiercebattle left at least 10 people dead Pennsylva-niarsquos governor sent the statersquos militia to Home-stead to restore order The plant reopened withnonunion workers protected by the troopsAfter the failure of the Homestead Strike thesteelworkersrsquo union dwindled
The employees of George Pullmanrsquos railway-car plant near Chicago went on strike in May1894 when the company cut wages Pullman responded by closing the plant One monthlater workers in the American Railway Unionsupported the strikers by refusing to handlePullman cars paralyzing rail traffic
Pullman and the railroad owners fought backThey persuaded US Attorney General RichardOlney to obtain an injunction or court order tostop the union from ldquoobstructing the railwaysand holding up the mailsrdquo The workers andtheir leader Eugene V Debs refused to end thestrike Debs was sent to jail
President Grover Cleveland sent federaltroops to Chicago and soon the strike was overThe failure of the Pullman Strike dealt anotherblow to the union movement Despite these set-backs workers continued to organize to workfor better wages and working conditions
Describing Why did the Pullmanworkers go on strike
Checking for Understanding1 Key Terms Write a paragraph about
the American Federation of LaborUse the following terms sweatshoptrade union collective bargainingstrikebreaker injunction
2 Reviewing Facts What role didSamuel Gompers play in uniongrowth
Reviewing Themes3 Groups and Institutions What were
the goals of the American Federationof Labor when it was founded
Critical Thinking4 Drawing Conclusions Why do you
think many Americans did not imme-diately support the labor unions
5 Organizing Information Re-createthe diagram below and describe the roles each played in labor-management issues
Analyzing Visuals6 Geography Skills Study the map on
page 574 Which of the incidentsshown on the map occurred in the1890s What events took place in Illinois When did they occur
CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry 575
Art Design a board game in whichplayers can experience the ups anddowns of factory work in the late1800s Include spaces such asldquoWorkday extended to 12 hoursMiss a turnldquo and ldquoYour union winsa pay hike Collect $5rdquo
Individual Role
Terence Powderly
Mary Harris Jones
George Pullman
Grover Cleveland
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576
Reviewing Key TermsUse each of the following terms in a statement that mighthave been made by the person indicated1 Railroad owner rebate pool standard gauge2 Union member trade union collective bargaining3 Factory owner mass production assembly line4 Shareholder stock dividend
Reviewing Key Facts5 What improvements in railway transportation were
brought about by new technology6 What were four of Thomas Edisonrsquos inventions7 What inventions improved communications in the late
1800s8 What manufacturing methods did Henry Ford use to
make his new automobile affordable9 What is vertical integration
10 What action did Congress take to control trusts andmonopolies in response to pressure from the Ameri-can people
11 What is collective bargaining12 How did the Haymarket Riot of 1886 affect public
opinion about the labor movement
Critical Thinking13 Analyzing Information Describe the contributions of
African American inventors in the late 1800s14 Analyzing Themes Economic Factors How did hori-
zontal integration differ from vertical integration15 Drawing Conclusions Why did workers think that
forming organized labor unions would help them getwhat they wanted from employers
16 Analyzing Themes Geography and HistoryRe-create the diagram below and describe two ways in which the growing railroad network helped American industry
The Growth of IndustryRailroadsbull Settlers are transported west
bull Railroads deliver raw materials and finished goods
bull Thousands of jobs are provided
bull Large railroads offer secret rebates to customers andmake secret agreements that raise rates
Inventionsbull The telegraph links the
United States and Europe
bull Alexander Graham Bellinvents the telephone
bull Thomas Alva Edison inventsthe electric lightbulb
bull Henry Ford uses assembly lines to mass-produce the automobile
bull Wright brothers fly airplane at Kitty Hawk
bull New processes improve steel production
Companiesbull Railroads are the first businesses
to incorporate
bull John D Rockefeller organizes Standard Oil forms a trust andcreates a monopoly
bull Andrew Carnegie forms CarnegieSteel Company
bull Congress passes the ShermanAntitrust Act
Labor Movementbull Working conditions in factories and mines are unhealthy
bull Women workers paid half of menrsquos wages for same work
bull Child workers areexploited
bull Labor unions form toimprove wages and working conditions
bull Labor union strikes some-times result in violence
Railroad network
Self-Check QuizVisit tajglencoecom and click on Chapter 19mdash
Self-Check Quizzes to prepare for the chapter test
HISTORY
CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry 577
Directions Choose the bestanswer to the following question
The development of the transformers that Westing-house built led to an increase in
F the price of electricityG the use of gas to heat homesH the use of electricity to power factoriesJ imported goods
Test-Taking TipThe phrase led to indicates that this question is
looking for a cause-and-effect relationship Rememberthat a cause is any person event or condition that
makes something happen What happens as a result is known as an effect
Standardized Test Practice
Geography and History ActivityStudy the map below and answer the questions that follow
17 Movement What forms of transportation moved goodsinto and out of this region
18 HumanEnvironment Interaction What industry grew inthe timbered regions of Wisconsin and Michigan
19 Location Identify the major ironsteel manufacturingcenters shown on the map
Practicing SkillsReading a Time Zone Map Study the time zone map onpage 560 Use the map to answer the following questions20 If you traveled from Florida to California what time zones
would you cross21 If it is 600 am in Maine what time is it in Hawaii22 If it is 300 pm in Texas what time is it in Alaska
Citizenship Cooperative Activity23 Labor Unions With another student write a short essay
in which you support or criticize labor unions from thepoint of view of a young person who has just entered theworkforce Note how you think a union could or couldnot improve your life Share your essay with the class
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Green Bay
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Chicago
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LansingDetroit
Toledo
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Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
ClevelandYoungstown
Titusville
Buffalo
Columbus
Milwaukee
Madison
Sawmills
IronSteel
Railroad
Timber
Prairie
Shipping
Canal
IndustrialExpansion
Economics Activity24 Using a product that is familiar to you explain how each
of the factors of production was used in its creation
Technology Activity25 Using a Spreadsheet Become an imaginary shareholder
in a corporation Search for stock market data in a dailynewspaper Choose one stock to follow for a two-weekperiod Track the performance of the stock on a spread-sheet by marking its daily increases and decreases Com-pare your spreadsheet with classmatesrsquo results anddecide if you made a good investment
Alternative Assessment26 Portfolio Writing Activity Review the chapter for infor-
mation about the four major union strikes between 1877and 1894 Write a headline for each that might haveappeared in newspapers following the strike
Self-Check QuizVisit tajglencoecom and click on Chapter 19mdash
Self-Check Quizzes to prepare for the chapter test
HISTORY
CHAPTER 19 The Growth of Industry 577
Directions Choose the bestanswer to the following question
The development of the transformers that Westing-house built led to an increase in
F the price of electricityG the use of gas to heat homesH the use of electricity to power factoriesJ imported goods
Test-Taking TipThe phrase led to indicates that this question is
looking for a cause-and-effect relationship Rememberthat a cause is any person event or condition that
makes something happen What happens as a result is known as an effect
Standardized Test Practice
Geography and History ActivityStudy the map below and answer the questions that follow
17 Movement What forms of transportation moved goodsinto and out of this region
18 HumanEnvironment Interaction What industry grew inthe timbered regions of Wisconsin and Michigan
19 Location Identify the major ironsteel manufacturingcenters shown on the map
Practicing SkillsReading a Time Zone Map Study the time zone map onpage 560 Use the map to answer the following questions20 If you traveled from Florida to California what time zones
would you cross21 If it is 600 am in Maine what time is it in Hawaii22 If it is 300 pm in Texas what time is it in Alaska
Citizenship Cooperative Activity23 Labor Unions With another student write a short essay
in which you support or criticize labor unions from thepoint of view of a young person who has just entered theworkforce Note how you think a union could or couldnot improve your life Share your essay with the class
N
S
EW
200 kilometers0Lambert Equal-Area projection
200 miles0
40degN
90degW 80degW
L Huron
L
Mic
hig
an
L Erie
L Ontari o
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NY
PA
OHIOIND
KYMO
IOWA
MINN
WVA
VA
MDILL
MICH
WIS
GrandRapids
Green Bay
Galena
Minneapolis
Chicago
Springfield
LansingDetroit
Toledo
St Louis
Indianapolis
SouthBend
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
ClevelandYoungstown
Titusville
Buffalo
Columbus
Milwaukee
Madison
Sawmills
IronSteel
Railroad
Timber
Prairie
Shipping
Canal
IndustrialExpansion
Economics Activity24 Using a product that is familiar to you explain how each
of the factors of production was used in its creation
Technology Activity25 Using a Spreadsheet Become an imaginary shareholder
in a corporation Search for stock market data in a dailynewspaper Choose one stock to follow for a two-weekperiod Track the performance of the stock on a spread-sheet by marking its daily increases and decreases Com-pare your spreadsheet with classmatesrsquo results anddecide if you made a good investment
Alternative Assessment26 Portfolio Writing Activity Review the chapter for infor-
mation about the four major union strikes between 1877and 1894 Write a headline for each that might haveappeared in newspapers following the strike
What role does electricity play in your life Can you imagine
your life without electricity Electricity powers lights TVs
radios ovens microwaves and computers along with countless
other objects you use every day
The Way It Was
The Civil War had ended No longer divided by war Ameri-
cans set about improving their lives Inventors led the way
Inventors such as George Westinghouse Lewis Howard Latimer
and Thomas Edison learned from one another and together
pushed the United States to become an industrial nation To
create the lightbulb Edison first had to understand how elec-
tricity works Now conduct your own investigation of electrical
currents much as Edison did and experience the life of an
inventor Find out which common objects are conductors and
which are insulators by building and testing a battery-powered
conductivity tester
Building a Conductivity Tester
flashlight with one fresh D cell(battery)
3 pieces of insulated wire(each about 6 inches (15 cm)long with the ends stripped)
roll of masking or duct tape a penny a plastic comb several pieces of fabric a metal fork or spoon several different rocks various other objects to test
Thomas Edison suffered
from hearing problems
throughout his life
Although an operation
could have saved his
hearing Edison refused it
He claimed he preferred
deafness because it
helped him concentrate
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What role does electricity play in your life Can you imagine
your life without electricity Electricity powers lights TVs
radios ovens microwaves and computers along with countless
other objects you use every day
The Way It Was
The Civil War had ended No longer divided by war Ameri-
cans set about improving their lives Inventors led the way
Inventors such as George Westinghouse Lewis Howard Latimer
and Thomas Edison learned from one another and together
pushed the United States to become an industrial nation To
create the lightbulb Edison first had to understand how elec-
tricity works Now conduct your own investigation of electrical
currents much as Edison did and experience the life of an
inventor Find out which common objects are conductors and
which are insulators by building and testing a battery-powered
conductivity tester
Building a Conductivity Tester
flashlight with one fresh D cell(battery)
3 pieces of insulated wire(each about 6 inches (15 cm)long with the ends stripped)
roll of masking or duct tape a penny a plastic comb several pieces of fabric a metal fork or spoon several different rocks various other objects to test
Thomas Edison suffered
from hearing problems
throughout his life
Although an operation
could have saved his
hearing Edison refused it
He claimed he preferred
deafness because it
helped him concentrate
578
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Build your conductivity tester by unscrewingthe top of the flashlight You will find that theflashlight contains a bulb assembly
1 Take one wire and tape it to the metal tipof the flashlight lightbulb Tape a secondwire to the metal ring that touches theside of the bulb
2 Tape the other end of the wire that isconnected to the tip of the lightbulb tothe positive (+) end of a D cell (battery)and touch the free end of the secondwire to the negative (ndash) end of the cellThe light should go on because you havemade an electrical current (If the lightdoes not go on make sure all the con-nections are taped tightly and make good contact)
3 Tape one end of a third wire to the nega-tive (ndash) end of the cell and touch the freeend of that wire to the wire coming fromthe bulb holder Again the light shouldgo on Try touching the two free ends ofthe wires to the penny at the same timeThe bulb should light because the pennyis a good conductor
Test your other objects in the same waythat you tested the penny Record whetherthey are conductors or insulators
1 In general what types of materials make thebest conductors
2 From your experiment how would you definean electrical current
3 Drawing Conclusions What are some ofthe risks inventors take when experimentingwith unfamiliar materials
How was Edison able to invent such usefulthings How would you go about inventingsomething Research and learn about some
of the inventors from the late 1800s and early 1900s Note howthese inventors got started Then create a diagram that explainshow you would go about creating a new invention
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