1. The Growth of Industrialism
The “Gilded Age”

2. Extra Credit Opportunity- 10 points
Answer all “Warm Up” and Essential Questions associated with this lecture.
Write questions and answers on a separate piece of paper.

3. Essential Questions
How did America transform from an agricultural / cottage industry based economy into an Industrial Power?
In what specific ways did improvements in industry lead to improvments in other industries?
Were people like Carnegie, Vanderbilt and Rockefeller Good or bad for America?

4. I.

5. I. The Brooklyn Bridge, New York 1883
Longest suspension bridge in the world

6. Warm ups
4. What do you think the “Gilded Age” means? 5. How is the construction of this bridge symbolic of Americas transformation into an industrial nation?

7. Characteristics of Urbanization During the Gilded Age
Megalopolis.
Mass Transit.
Magnet for economic and social opportunities.
Pronounced class distinctions Inner & outer core
New frontier of opportunity for women.
Squalid living conditions for many.
Political machines.
Ethnic neighborhoods.

8. The City as a New “Frontier?”
New Use of Space
New Class Diversity
New Architectural Style
New Energy
New Symbols of Change & Progress
The City as a New “Frontier?”
New Culture (“Melting Pot”)
Make a New Start
New Form of Classic “Rugged Individualism”
New Levels of Crime, Violence, & Corruption

9. II.

10. Warm ups
6. How did this process help fuel industrial growth?

11. II. Steel Workers in Pennsylvania
Bessemer Process
Accelerated steel process
Technology spurred other industries

12. III.

13. III. New York Skyscraper
20 stories
Result of steel innovation
Sign of the steel age
Visual reminder of changing times
Flatiron Builing 1902

14. Warm up
7. Why were buildings like these necessary in an increasingly urbanized age?

15. Prompt___ Industrialism Poems 20 points
A side- #1 (of 5) Cinquain : Title 2 Adjectives Three Verbs Simile (like a…or as a...) Synonym for first line
Title: American Industrialism

16. IV.

17. IV. Andrew Carnegie
By millionaires
Carnegie-$$$- steel

18. Warm up
8. Do wealthy business men the United States?

19. V.

20. V. Pennsylvania Oil Oil found in PA-1859 Gas replaces steam engines
Oil becomes big business

21. Warm up
9. Why did oil fields like this become more important in an age of industrialization?

22. VI.

23. VI. John D. Rockefeller Standard Oil Company “Oil Trust”
1879- controlled 90% of U.S. oil
Monopoly on Oil

24. 10. What are the benefits and drawbacks to allowing a few businessmen to become fabulously wealthy selling a common good such as oil?

25. VII.

26. VII. Railroad (Chicago,1860)
Transportation was key for Industry
Need to move freight
,000 miles of track (mostly in East)

27. VIII.

28. Warm up
11. What other transportation systems are vital to an industrial nation?

29. VIII. Cornelius Vanderbilt
Railroad tycoon
Railroad trust
Bought up small railroads-monopoly
Consolidation made shipping cheap + fast
1883- Time Zones

30. Industrialism Poems Cont…
Poem 2,3,4 of 5
Write an I am Poem for the following people:
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Reckefellar
Cornelius Vanderbilt

31. IX.

32. IX. Trusts (influence on Gov’t)
Standard Oil Trust 1881
Bribed Gov’t officials
Legislation to control Trusts
Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) 1887
Sherman Anti-trust Act 1890

33. Industrialism Slides cont
Poem 5 of 5
Cinquain
Title: Trusts

34. X

35. X. Company Towns Employer owed villages Workers paid in “scrip”
+ and -
This one- Homestead P.A. –Carnegie

36. XI.

37. XI. Working Conditions Steel
Hard labor
Long hours- 12/6
Low pay
Dangerous working conditions
Steel Workers- Homestead, PA.

38. XI.

39. XI. Working Conditions Coal
Unsafe- Death, disease, disfigurement
Child labor
million
Coal mine in PA

40. XII.

41. XII. Unions Formed by workers to fight ills of industry
Collective Bargaining
Knights of Labor-1869
American Federation of Labor (AFL)-1881
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)-1905

42. XIII.

43. XIII. Union Opposition Strikes Often violent Labor Vs. management
Gov’t Support business
1886-Chicago
1892-Carnegie Steel
1894-Pullman Railway Car Company.

44. Warm Ups
In ways did working conditions, worker rights and low pay lead to the formation of Labor Unions?
Why would industrialists be against Labor Unions?