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American Industrialization I. What Factors Caused the US to Industrialize?

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1 American Industrialization I. What Factors Caused the US to Industrialize?

2 Abundant Raw Materials

3 Homestead Act of 1862

4 LANDGRANTSLANDGRANTS

5 Business Competition: “Robber Barons”

6 Abundant Cheap Labor

7 Pro-Business Government Leadership/No regulation Laissez – Faire

8 Examples of US Industrialization

9 Steel Production

10 II. Problems with Industrialization

11 1.Exploitation of workers: low pay & dangerous conditions

12 2. Child labor

13 3. Pollution & Environmental Damage

14  vertical integration  horizontal consolidation 4. Consolidation of Power

15 5. “Trusts” have too much power -- Undemocratic & Anti-Individual

16 6. Govt. no longer “for the people”

17 Workers Respond: 1877 Workers Respond: 1877 The Great Strike

18 Knights of labor

19 Haymarket Affair 1886

20 1894

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