1. The Triumph of Industry
Chapter 4

2. Your Job Divide into groups of 3
I now the numbers do not match, but we can fix that.
You will be covering all aspects of the Growth of Industry via poster
Content
Cover all the objectives of your section
Develop some way to provide key terms, inventions, & people, for others to see & understand
Use pictures and text
Your poster should provide a detailed description of the chapter

3. Aspects to be covered Encouraging Industrial Growth
Innovation Drives the Nation
Impact of Industrialization
Fighting for Profits
Debating the Role of Big Business/Government Imposes Regulations
Workers Endure Hardships
Labor Unions Form
Strikes Rock the Nation

4. Expectations They are high for this class
This is due by the first of next week
Gold Wednesday for discussion
Blue Tuesday for discussion
You will have time today to devise your plan, but we will be covering Chapter 5 on Friday (blue) and Monday (gold)

5. Objectives
Analyze and explain how new technology brings both positive and negative changes to society.
Write a paragraph or two evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of technology
Describe governments role in the economy.
Identify one way the government contributed to the success of industrialization
What caused the development of the ICC and Sherman Antitrust Act (SAA)
How did big business transform the SAA into a tool for their benefit?

6. Objectives
Explain the social problems and reforms that labor unions tried to fix by protecting workers’ rights.
What work conditions did labor unions seek to improve? What were their methods?
Overall, did the efforts of labor unions have a positive impact on workers’ lives and jobs? Explain

7. Causes of Industrialization
Civil War
War encouraged production, innovation, and expansion of railroads
Natural Resources
Ample natural resources including oil, fueled growth
Growing workforce
Immigrants willing to work for low wages flowed into the
Technology/innovation
New technology and innovative business practices spurred growth
Govern-ment policies
Government policies encouraged investment in business and new technology
Industrialization

8. Influential Labor Unions
Name
Date Founded
Significance
National Trades Union
1834
1st national union, open to workers from all trades
Knights of labor
1869
Sought ideological reform, open to workers in all trades
AFL
American Federation of Laborers
1886
Focused on specific workers issues, for skilled workers only
American Railway Union
1893
1st industrial union, open to all railworkers

9. Influential People Henry Bessemer Thomas Edison Andrew Carnegie
Bessemer process creates lightweight steel for railroad production
Thomas Edison
Electricity, light bulb
Andrew Carnegie
Steel tycoon
Vertical Consolidation Using all phases of many business’ to produce
John D. Rockefeller
Railroads
Horizontal Consolidation Putting many firms together like a trust
Samuel Gompers
Formed AFL, caused rise of Labor Unions
Eugene V. Debs
Challenged big business with the Pullman strike

10. Major Strikes Haymarket Riot Homestead Strike Pullman Strike
Chicago, 1886 protestors threw a bomb into the crowd. 8 anarchists were convicted of murder
Homestead Strike
Steel plant workers call for a strike, Henry Frick hires Pinkertons who then kill some of the strikers, public starts to turn against unions
Pullman Strike
Workers were required to live in the town they worked in. Eugene V. Debs organizes a strike that halted production with 300,000 railway men on strike. Debs was imprisoned for going against the federal government. Debs appealed his case and the Supreme Court stated the government could not halt his strike.