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Industrial Revolution
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Railroads -History 1860= 35,000 mi. (most east of Miss. R.). 1900= 192,000 mi.
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Railroads -Inventions/Ideas -Telegraph -Standard Gauge rails Standard Gauge Standard Gauge -Air brakes
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Railroads-Major Players ----Union Pacific ----Central Pacific ----Cornelius Vanderbilt
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RR-Facts/Benefits/Problems Transcontinental Railroad = Transcontinental Railroad = Transcontinental Railroad = Trans. RR = growth of West /corruption and time (noon = sun overhead)
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Solutions Time Zones= Interstate Commerce Act (1887 ) =fed. gov. controls interstate trade
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Steel -History 1860= >2,000 tons/yr. 1900= 7 million tons/yr (1/3 World’s supply)
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Steel-Inventions/Ideas Bessemer Process- makes steel cheaper and stronger
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Major Players Andrew Andrew Andrew Carnegie – from Scotland started $2.50/week –sold US Steel for $480 million
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Steel Facts Vertical integration= Combine Combine and control all phases of production Benefits/Problems Improve Improve efficiency- Carnegie sell US Steel to J.P.Morgan ‘Robber Barons’ v.‘Captains of Industry’
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Solutions Carnegie’s “Gospel of _________” = Carnegie donates $____ million “Wealth” responsibilities of rich as stewards of society (rich have an obligation to help poor and society) $350
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Oil History 1859- 1859- 1st well in Pa. 1870- 1870- Standard Oil Co. formed I Inventions/Ideas ‘‘‘‘free enterprise’ ““““laissez faire” = n o government intervention
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Major Players John D. Rockefeller-1877 Standard.Oil Co. controlled 95% of US companiesJohn D. Rockefeller-1877 Standard.Oil Co. controlled 95% of US companiesJohn D. Rockefeller-1877 John D. Rockefeller-1877
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Oil Facts Horizontal integration= buy buy out the competition to control the market When When one company controls whole industry 1 1 board of directors controls industry B Benefits/Problems PPPPhilosophy of “Social Darwinism” ==== survival of the fittest –applied to society ccccreated monopolies (def.)= TTTTrusts (def)
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Solutions Sherman Sherman Anti Trust Act(1890) = prevents prevents monopolies that restrict fair trade
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South No real industry until ______- after still not significant Cigarette ________ machine 1880 rolling
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South James B. ______- _________ Tobacco Company 1924- Trinity College renamed _________ University Duke American Duke
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Unions NNNNot a good time for Unions – gggglutted Labor market- due immigration and RR? EEEEarly Labor strikes –turn violent
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Unions New New competition for jobs between women, immigrants and ex- farmers
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Major Players 1869 Knights of Labor = Terrance Powderly 1886 A.F.of L= Samuel Gompers =skilled =skilled and unskilled labors workers only
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Problems Sweatshops= Haymarket Square Riot= scabs= Poor working conditions strike turns to violence Replacement workers for strikers
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Solutions CCCCollective bargaining= mmmmake contracts for all members of union SSSSherman Antitrust Act used against “closed shop” unions ?
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