1. The Development of Industrial America
Chapter 3, Section 1
The Triumph of Industry

2. Objectives
Analyze the growth of the United States as an industrial power.
Summarize the rise of big business.
Understand the plight of the industrial worker and how workers tried to improve their condition.
Identify reasons that workers and big business clashed.

3. Industry and Technology
__________ made the U.S. one of the most powerful nations
Causes of Industrial Expansion
Natural resources
Industries expanded
Success of businesses
Entrepreneurs

4. Who is this?
Major inventor Thomas Edison!

5. How did Industrialization Impact People?
Rise in standard of living
Growth of cities
More efficient production
Improved transportation an communications

6. Big Business Robber Barons- Cartel- Trust-
stole fortunes by paying labors poorly
“captains of industry”
Cartel-
Assoc. of producers that coordinates prices and production
Trust-
Stocks assigned to a board of trustees, combine into new org.

7. Gospel of Wealth Social Darwinism- Gospel of Weath-
Only the fittest survived
Gospel of Weath-
Doctrine that asked the rich to share with the poor… for the betterment of society
Carnegie, justification for wealth and business practices

8. Corporate Abuses Monopolies- Interstate Commerce Commission (1887)
Single corporations came to control entire industries
Interstate Commerce Commission (1887)
Oversaw railroad operations
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
Outlawed mergers and monopolies

9. Labor Unions Knights of Labor American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Wanted to organize all workers, rapid growth
Create cooperatives so workers could own factories
8 hour work days
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Focused on wages, hours and conditions
Socialism
Gov. ownership of railroads, counter big business
Eugene V. Debs

10. Riots Haymarket Riot Pullman Strike May 4, 1886 Labor rally in Chicago
Threw a bomb, killed policeman
Convicted anarchists for conspiracy to commit murder
Pullman Strike
Cleveland sends federal troops to break-up strike
Haymarket Riots, 5 anarchists

11. Objectives How did the United States grow as an industrial power?
Summarize the rise of big business.
What were some of the problems that workers faced and how did they try to improve their conditions?
What were some reasons that workers and businesses clashed?

12. Assignment
P. 72: 1 and 4
Quiz tomorrow!