OGT INDUSTRIALIZATION

CHANGES

How does production change? -Mass Production replaces skilled work Working Conditions? -Horrible, noisy, unsafe Agricultural Revolution Where does population move? -to the cities

CHANGES

Do we see bigger business or smaller? -Bigger….Rockefeller, Carnegie…. How does government respond? -Laissez-faire How do workers protect themselves -Rise of Labor Unions (strikes) - Knights of Labor, AFL – American

Federation of Labor, CIO – Congress of Industrial Organizations

REFORMERS

Progressives Populists Urban Middle Class Reformers Farmers (turned into political

party)Lost 2 presidential elections (1890s)

They saw the plight of the lowly industrial workers

Increased food production led to falling food prices

Governments should check the power of big businesses to stop abuses of labor

Restrictions on railroad companies8 hour workdaysProgressive income taxDirect election of U.S. Senators

Muckraking Journalists Eliminate the Gold StandardPaper money was reedemable only by Gold – money shortage

Mandatory free education for allPresidents were Progressive

Movement died after farmers started moving to cities