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Alan Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation 6/e
Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy
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Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy
Smokestacks (Royalty-Free / CORBIS) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy
Sources of Industrial Growth Industrial Technologies Alexander Graham Bell Impact of Electric Power © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy
Sources of Industrial Growth The Technology of Iron and Steel Production Bessemer Process New Blast Furnaces New Transportation Systems Rise of the Petroleum Industry Pioneer Oil Run, 1865 (Library of Congress) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy
Sources of Industrial Growth The Automobile and the Airplane Henry Ford The Wright Brothers The Wright Brothers (Library of Congress) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Sources of Industrial Growth Research and Development Corporate Research and Development Thomas Edison (Library of Congress) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy
Sources of Industrial Growth The Science of Production “Taylorism” Assembly Line © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy
Sources of Industrial Growth Railroad Expansion and the Corporation Importance of Government Subsidies “Limited Liability” U.S. Steel Created “Horizontal Integration” and “Vertical Integration” Standard Oil “Holding Company” © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy
Railroads, © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Andrew Carnegie (Portrait Gallery) J.P. Morgan (Portrait Gallery) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Capitalism and Its Critics Survival of the Fittest Ideology of Individualism Social Darwinism Corporate Wealth Legitimized Cornelius Vanderbilt (Portrait Gallery) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Capitalism and Its Critics The Gospel of Wealth “Gospel of Wealth” Horatio Alger Alternative Visions Socialist Labor Party Henry George’s “Single Tax” © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Capitalism and Its Critics The Problems of Monopoly Economic Concentration Challenged © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Ordeal of the Worker The Immigrant Workforce Rapidly Expanding Working Class Labor Contract Law Growing Ethnic Tensions Inspection room at Ellis Island, NY (Library of Congress) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy
The Ordeal of the Worker Wages and Working Conditions Harsh Work Conditions Child Labor Emerging Unionization “Molly Maguires” Railroad Strike of 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes (Library of Congress) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Ordeal of the Worker The Knights of Labor Terence V. Powderly The AFL Samuel Gompers Haymarket Bombing Labor Discredited © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy
The Ordeal of the Worker The Homestead Strike Henry Clay Frick Government Intervention Inside the Homestead Plant (Library of Congress) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Chapter Seventeen: Industrial Supremacy
The Ordeal of the Worker The Pullman Strike American Railway Union Sources of Labor Weakness Few Gains for Labor Capital’s Strength © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Patterns of Popular Culture: The Novels of Horatio Alger © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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