The Growth and Development of Industry in America.

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The Growth and Development of Industry in America

Ripe for industry Abundant raw materials Large labor supply Technological advances Growing number of entrepreneurs Federal assistance Expanding domestic and international markets

Visionaries and New Inventions Thomas Edison

Visionaries and New Inventions Alexander Graham Bell

New Steel Production Techniques Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Rise of the Rise of the Petroleum Industry Petroleum Industry Pioneer Oil Run, 1865

Andrew Carnegie Rags to Riches U.S. Steel The Gospel of Wealth

Wilbur and Orville Wright Other Visionaries: The Airplane The Wright Brothers (Library of Congress)

Other Visionaries: The Automobile Gottfried Daimler Henry Ford

Henry Ford “You can paint it any color, so long as it’s black”

Transportation Advances Continued growth of the railroad Railroad tycoons Cornelius Vanderbilt Andrew Carnegie Jay Gould Corporations Limited liability Consolidated Organizations Horizontal integration Vertical integration MonopoliesRockefellerTrusts Ida Tarbell J.P. Morgan

“Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt

Biltmore Estate

Jay Gould “Robber Baron”

John D. Rockefeller “The growth of a large business is merely survival of the fittest”

Ida Tarbell

J.P. Morgan

J.P. Morgan…on life You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree. Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one. A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.

Social Darwanism vs. Philanthropy Survival of the fittest The Gospel of Wealth Russell Conwell Horatio Alger Socialist Labor Party Henry George Edward Bellamy

Business and the Courts

The Republican Party Stalwarts Roscoe Conkling Half-Breeds James Blaine “Mugwumps” James A. Garfield (1881) Charles Julius Guiteau Chester A. Arthur ( ) Pendleton Act Tariff Act of 1883

James A. Garfield (1881) R

Chester Arthur ( ) R

The Democrats Grover Cleveland ( ) & ( )

Grover Cleveland ( ) & ( ) D

Political Cartoon

Politics of the Day The Populists “Free Silver” The Protective Tariff The Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Sherman Anti-trust Cartoon

The Labor Movement Economic depression 5 Types of industrial work Common labor Skilled labor Factory labor Sweatshop Labor Mining

Workingman’s Plight Immigrant Workers Divisions within the ranks Divisions within the ranks Ethnic rivalry Ethnic rivalry Labor Contract Law Women & children

Thousands of immigrants arrived through Ellis Island daily…

Child Labor

Triangle Shirtwaist Company

Unable to use fire escapes, workers jumped to their deaths

146 Workers died that day…

Unionization Molly Maguires Knights of Labor AFL

A “Coffin” Notice for the Molly Maguires

Labor Strikes The Great Railroad Strike Coxey’s Army Haymarket Square Homestead Strike Pullman Strike

Haymarket Square 1890

Homestead Strike

Homestead Quarters of the Military

Putting down the strikers

George Pullman & Striking workers

Eugene Debs

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