Mindset #49 What is the difference between an invention and a discovery? Define the following vocabulary: - Industrialism National market Merger Union Strike Turn in MS # 44-49
Segregation Industrialization Big business America Post Civil War Segregation Industrialization Big business
Segregation Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Supreme Court ruled in favor of separate but equal Jim Crow Laws – laws that discriminated against African Americans Lynching – an execution by a mob
Industrialization Inventions! Steam elevator Typewriter Refrigerator car Telephone Light bulb Pullman sleeping car Razor Camera Many more!! All inventions can be placed into one of three categories: Manufacturing In the home Agriculture
Industrialization After the Civil War, the U.S. focused on manufacturing goods Branching out into heavy industry Railroad tracks Steam engines Farm tractors STEEL and COAL Production
Consumerism Creation of the national marketplace changed how people spent their money Development of department stores Introduction of charge accounts Cater to consumers Advertising costs: 1870 = $50 million 1900 = $542 million
Big Business Steel Coal Oil Railroads Monopolies
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST FOR BUSINESS Social Darwinism SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST FOR BUSINESS
Labor Unions Unions for skilled workers Main objective Shorter workday Better pay Knights of Labor First national labor union to remain active for more than a few of years
Labor Unions - Problems By 1900 only 1 in every 33 American workers belonged to a union Unions excluded women, minority groups, and unskilled workers Less than 100,000 of the 5.3 million working women belonged to unions In the South, African American workers could only join segregated local unions Hostility toward immigrant labor Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Closure Explain the plight of African Americans after the Civil War and Reconstruction. What invention stood out to you and why? What is consumerism? What were the main industries that were developing? What is Social Darwinism? What were the problems with the labor unions?