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The Growth and Development of Industry in America
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Ripe for industry Abundant raw materials Large labor supply Technological advances Growing number of entrepreneurs Federal assistance Expanding domestic and international markets
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Visionaries and New Inventions Thomas Edison 1847-1931
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Visionaries and New Inventions Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922
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New Steel Production Techniques Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Rise of the Rise of the Petroleum Industry Petroleum Industry Pioneer Oil Run, 1865
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Andrew Carnegie Rags to Riches U.S. Steel The Gospel of Wealth
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Wilbur and Orville Wright Other Visionaries: The Airplane The Wright Brothers (Library of Congress)
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Other Visionaries: The Automobile Gottfried Daimler Henry Ford
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Henry Ford “You can paint it any color, so long as it’s black”
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Transportation Advances Continued growth of the railroad Railroad tycoons Cornelius Vanderbilt Andrew Carnegie Jay Gould Corporations Limited liability Consolidated Organizations Horizontal integration Vertical integration MonopoliesRockefellerTrusts Ida Tarbell J.P. Morgan
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“Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Biltmore Estate
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Jay Gould “Robber Baron”
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John D. Rockefeller “The growth of a large business is merely survival of the fittest”
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Ida Tarbell
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J.P. Morgan
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J.P. Morgan…on life You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree. Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one. A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.
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Social Darwanism vs. Philanthropy Survival of the fittest The Gospel of Wealth Russell Conwell Horatio Alger Socialist Labor Party Henry George Edward Bellamy
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Business and the Courts
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The Republican Party Stalwarts Roscoe Conkling Half-Breeds James Blaine “Mugwumps” James A. Garfield (1881) Charles Julius Guiteau Chester A. Arthur ( 1881-1885) Pendleton Act Tariff Act of 1883
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James A. Garfield (1881) R
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Chester Arthur (1881-1885) R
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The Democrats Grover Cleveland (1885-1889) & (1893- 1897)
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Grover Cleveland (1885-1889) & (1893-1897) D
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Political Cartoon
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Politics of the Day The Populists “Free Silver” The Protective Tariff The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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Sherman Anti-trust Cartoon
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The Labor Movement Economic depression 5 Types of industrial work Common labor Skilled labor Factory labor Sweatshop Labor Mining
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Workingman’s Plight Immigrant Workers Divisions within the ranks Divisions within the ranks Ethnic rivalry Ethnic rivalry Labor Contract Law Women & children
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Thousands of immigrants arrived through Ellis Island daily…
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Child Labor
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Triangle Shirtwaist Company
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Unable to use fire escapes, workers jumped to their deaths
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146 Workers died that day…
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Unionization Molly Maguires Knights of Labor AFL
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A “Coffin” Notice for the Molly Maguires
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Labor Strikes The Great Railroad Strike Coxey’s Army Haymarket Square Homestead Strike Pullman Strike
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Haymarket Square 1890
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Homestead Strike
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Homestead Quarters of the Military
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Putting down the strikers
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George Pullman & Striking workers
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Eugene Debs 1855-1926
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