Industrial Notes

US HISTORY A

THEME # 4

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Standard 11.1.2

Students analyze the relationship among the rise of industrialization, large-scale rural-to-urban migration, and massive immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.

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Standard 11.1.5

Discuss corporate mergers that produced trusts and cartels and the economic and political policies of industrial leaders.

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Industrialism

Change in production from hand craftsmanship to machine manufacturing.

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Key Growth Factors

Increase of resourcesPennsylvania – CoalTexas, California, Oklahoma – OilMinnesota and Lake Superior - Iron ore

Improved transportation - Railroad tracks- 50,000 miles

Population moved from rural areas, to urban areas

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Government supported industries Lots of loans & little resolution Laisse - faire or hands off little

regulation No tax on income until 1913. No Environmental controls on

resources.

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Invention & Innovation

1860 - 1900 - 676,000 patents lots of creating Steel is King - Developed by Henry Bessemer Iron ore into steel and - 89% made from steel (rr

tracks) led to the building of sky scrapers and bridges

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Invention & Innovation

Electricity becomes wide spread

Samuel F.B. Morse - telegraph Alexander G. Bell - telephone Thomas Edison - electrical

lighting

Morse

Edison

Bell

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Invention & Innovation

Machines increase production Elias Howe - sewing machine

(1846) Assembly line becomes popular -

Henry Ford’s carsHowe

Ford

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Invention & Innovation

Industrial leaders - powerful leaders monopolize industries

John D Rockefeller - Standard Oil Company

Andrew Carnegie - steel Cornelius Vanderbilt Railroads J.P. Morgan finance and steel

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Captains of Industry

Carngie

Vanderbilt

MorganRockfeller

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The Gilded Age

increase fortune open display of wealth cheap frame and rotten

inside.

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Trust and Government Corruption The rise of industrial trusts trust - concentration industry by one

company stock - buy into a company - a group of

people make decisions

ex. Rockefeller ‘s company

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Trust and Government Corruption Trust influence Government Affairs - little

regulation in businesses Lots of Corruption in government. Big

Business bought off politicians for example Tammany Hall

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Trust and Government Corruption Criticism and Defense of Big Business 4,000 millionaires in 1900’s Industrialists gave money to colleges,

schools, hospitals and museums.

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Impact of Industrialism

Helped the Middle Class buy cars, telephones and homes

Sears’ Catalog made lots of money because people bought from it

Life for the average American was difficult poor living conditions high rent little money for food 7%earned diplomas

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Impact of Industrialism

Working conditions10-15 hour worked daysdemoralizing and dehumanized conditions low pay and horrible conditionschildren worked long hours and unsafe

conditions

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Impact of Industrialism

Many workers came from Mexico and China who worked for low wages

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Organized Labor

The Knight s of Labor - Terence Powderly - 8 hours, income tax

The American Federation of Labor led by Samuel Gompers

Wobblies or industrial workers of the world - Daniel De Leon

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Organized Labor

Molly Maguires - leftists (socialist) fought for coal miner rights

Strikes and violence - people were killed / 6 million dollars of damage

Union Victories - max. hours of work - workers compensation

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Food contamination and Muckrakers

No safe guard for food Meat packing - The Jungle by

Upton Sinclair - unsanitary food Ida Tarbell wrote about

Standard Oil. Jacob Riis wrote How the Other

Half Lives

Ida Tarbell

Upton Sinclair

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Food contamination and Muckrakers Mudrakers “would rather rake filth than

look upward to nobler things”-they wrote about corruption and exposing the ills of society but didn’t provide solutions for problems

stories were sensational accounts of societal evils

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Toll on the environment

Mining caused lots of pollution Forests were destroyed Air and water pollution Reformers Like John Muir tried save the

environments

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Class Assignment

Page 5: Sensory FigureTen facts

Page 7: Acrostic; Industrialization10 illustrations2 sentences per letter