Industrialization: What Factors Caused the U. S Industrialization: What Factors Caused the U.S. to Industrialize in the late 19th Century?
1. Abundant Raw Materials
Ex: Alexander Graham Bell, 2. Inventions/Innovation Ex: Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison Optimism & Technological Innovation 8:00-14:00 Also: Camera Telegraph Sewing machine Record player X-ray
3. New Kind of Businessmen:The Robber Barons (Ex: Andrew Carnegie, JD Rockefeller & JP Morgan)
New Forms of Business Organization
Railroads
Steel Carnegie steals the Bessemer process
Ex: Eastern & Southern European Immigration 4. Abundant Cheap Labor Ex: Eastern & Southern European Immigration
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5. Pro-Business Government Laissez Faire policy = no limits on business
Problems with Industrialization
Exploitation of workers: low pay & dangerous conditions 2:00-5:00
Pollution & Environmental Damage
Critics Argue that “Trusts” (monopolies) have too much power -- that they are undemocratic & anti-individual
Critics Argue: Govt’ no longer “for the people”