Big Business and Organized Labor Chapter 20. I. The Rise of Big Business.

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Big Business and Organized Labor Chapter 20

I. The Rise of Big Business

II. The Second Industrial Revolution

Three Related Developments Creation of an interconnected national transportation and communication network The use of electric power The systematic application of scientific research to industrial processes

III. Building the Transcontinental Railroads

IV. Financing the Railroads Jay Gould

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Biltmore Estate

V. Manufacturing and Inventions Christopher Sholes

Alexander Graham Bell

Thomas Edison

George Westinghouse

VI. Rockefeller and the Oil Trust

“I have always regarded it as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.” - John D. Rockefeller

VII. Carnegie and the Steel Industry

Sir Henry Bessemer

VIII. J.P. Morgan, The Financier

IX. Sears and Roebuck Richard SearsAlvah Roebuck

X. Social Trends

XI. Child Labor

XII. Disorganized Protest The Molly Maguires

XIII. The Railroad Strike of 1877

XIV. The Sand Lot Incident

XV. Toward Permanent Unions

XVI. The Knights of Labor

XVII. Anarchism

XVIII. The Haymarket Affair

XIX. Gompers and the AFL

XX. The Homestead Strike

XXI. The Pullman Strike

XXII. Mother Jones

XXIII. Socialism and the Unions Karl Marx

Eugene Debs

XXIV. The Wobblies

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