Mr. Ermer U.S. History Miami Beach Senior High

 Examine the social, political, and economic causes, course, and consequences of the Second Industrial Revolution that began in the late 19 th century.

 What role should government play in the business world?  Market Economy vs. Planned Economy  Government Regulation  Carnegie’s Social Gospel  Social Darwinism

 Immigration from East Asia  Many work on expanding railroad network  Americans afraid of “yellow peril”  Chinese Exclusion Act  Gentlemen’s Agreement  Immigration from Europe  Irish and southern Europeans considered low on Social Darwinist ladder  Nativism & The Know Nothing Party  “The Great Migration”

 Bessemer Process Steel  Stronger than before, skyscrapers  Factories built, expanded, entrepreneurship  Unsafe work conditions  Child labor  Adverse social effects  Muckrakers  Ida Tarbell

 Cities = centers of industry and innovation  Urban centers growing fast, city services lag  Political machines provide for services  Corruption & Graft  Charities and political groups also fill needs  Settlement houses

 Workers organize to demand better treatment  Labor Unions form  Knights of Labor  American Federation of Labor  Congress of Industrial Organizations  Union workers strike for rights  Haymaker Riot (1886)  Homestead Strike (1892)  Pullman Strike (1894)

 Child Labor laws  Compulsory Public Education  Sherman Antitrust Act  Sherman Silver Purchase Act  Suffrage movement  National Women’s Suffrage Association  Food & Drug Safety Regulation