Cities and the Industrial Revolution

The rapid growth of cities caused a large _____shortage

Housing

The sudden growth caused for big changes in public services such as

Sewage and water systems and public transportation

Between the ____war and_______the United States will go through a huge economic transformation.

Civil War and WWI

The transformation involved?

Industry, big business, and agriculture

Many problems will arise due to the rise of ___and___?

Labor Unions and industrial conflicts

What fueled the modern industrial economy?

Technology

Companies formed ____as a form of insurance or limited liability?

Corporations

___invented a process to make better steel?

Bessemer

___invented the light bulb and built electricity grids as a source of power and light.

Thomas Edison

_____invented the telephone?

Alexander Graham Bell

____invented the airplane?

The Wright Brothers

___was the first to use assembly line manufacturing.

Henry Ford

Industrial Leaders

___made his fortune in the steel industry.

Andrew Carnegie

He was a big banker and made his money in finances?

J.P.Morgan

___developed refineries and had a monopoly in the oil business.

John D. Rockefeller

____ made his fortune in the railroad business.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Early Civil Rights

___and____against African Americans took on new forms in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Discrimination and Segregation

____ _____disagreed about how to respond to the developments.

African Americans

Race relations in the South

How did they change?

Many laws were passed to ___ the freedoms of African Americans

Limit

The ___ ___laws were passed in many Southern States forcing separation of the races in public places.

Jim Crow

____and____were directed against African Americans.

Intimidation and crimes(lynchings)

The Supreme Court upheld this ruling legalizing segregation.

Plessy v. Ferguson

In Plessy v. Ferguson the Supreme Court upheld what laws?

Jim Crow Laws

Booker T Washington wanted to achieve equality through____and____.

Vocational education and economic success

W.E.B.Dubios believed that education was useless without_____?

EQUALITY

DuBois was one of the founding members of the ____?

NAACP

DuBois was very much interested in ____equality.

Political

The Progressive Movement

Goals of the Progressives

The Progressives used the_____to reform problems.

Government

Teddy Roosevelts’ progressive program was called the ____ _____?

Square Deal

President Wilsons’ progressive program was called the______?

The New Freedom

Some of the problems with the working conditions of the time were?

Poor working conditions

Long hours and low wages

No benefits and no job security

Changes in Elections

Direct election of senators---The seventeenth amendment

The people nominate and elect their Senators.

The Muckrakers

Wrote about child labor and other problems of the time.

Problem with the Muckrakers?

They never provided any type of solution

Impact of Labor Unions

Knights of Labor

Country’s first labor Union?

American Federation of Labor

First skilled labor union

First leader of the American Federation of labor?

Samuel Gompers

American Railway Union?

Led by Eugene Debs

Industrial Ladies Garment Workers Union

Women’s First organized Union

Haymarket Strike

Iron and steel workers Strike at McCormick Reaper plant, seven killed, anarchists blamed,4 executed. Eight hour day

Homestead Strike

United States Steel (Carnegie)

Pullman Strike

Forces railroad workers back to work, obstructing the U.S. Mail

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Prevents businesses from forming monopolies

Monopolies ?

Anything that restrains trade

Clayton Anti-trust Act

Outlaws price fixing and exempts unions from Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Women’s suffrage

Women’s suffrage was the forerunner of the modern day _____movement?

Protest

Early leader of the women’s suffrage movement?

Susan B. Anthony

The suffrage movement influenced women to enter the ________during WWI

Work Force

This Amendment gave women the right to vote?

19th