Transcript Industrial Notes - Ms. Carreon: History Class

THEME # 4
Industrial Notes
US HISTORY A
Standard 11.1.2
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Students analyze the relationship among
the rise of industrialization, large-scale
rural-to-urban migration, and massive
immigration from Southern and Eastern
Europe.
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Standard 11.1.5
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Discuss corporate mergers that produced
trusts and cartels and the economic and
political policies of industrial leaders.
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Industrialism
 Change
in production from hand
craftsmanship to machine
manufacturing.
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Key Growth Factors
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Increase of resources
– Coal
 Texas, California, Oklahoma – Oil
 Minnesota and Lake Superior - Iron ore
 Pennsylvania
Improved transportation - Railroad
tracks- 50,000 miles
 Population moved from rural areas, to
urban areas
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Government supported
industries
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Lots of loans & little resolution
Laisse - faire or hands off little
regulation
No tax on income until 1913.
No Environmental controls on
resources.
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Invention & Innovation
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1860 - 1900 - 676,000 patents lots of creating
Steel is King - Developed by Henry Bessemer
Iron ore into steel and - 89% made from steel (rr
tracks)
led to the building of sky scrapers and bridges
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Invention & Innovation
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Morse
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Edison
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Electricity becomes wide
spread
Samuel F.B. Morse - telegraph
Alexander G. Bell - telephone
Thomas Edison - electrical
lighting
Bell
Invention & Innovation
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Machines increase production
Elias Howe - sewing machine
(1846)
Assembly line becomes popular Henry Ford’s cars
Howe
Ford
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Invention & Innovation
Industrial leaders - powerful leaders
monopolize industries
 John D Rockefeller - Standard Oil
Company
 Andrew Carnegie - steel
 Cornelius Vanderbilt Railroads
 J.P. Morgan finance and steel
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Captains of Industry
Vanderbilt
Carngie
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Morgan
Rockfeller
The Gilded Age
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increase fortune
open display of wealth
cheap frame and rotten
inside.
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Trust and Government
Corruption
The rise of industrial trusts
 trust - concentration industry by one
company
 stock - buy into a company - a group of
people make decisions
ex. Rockefeller ‘s company
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Trust and Government
Corruption
Trust influence Government Affairs - little
regulation in businesses
 Lots of Corruption in government. Big
Business bought off politicians for example
Tammany Hall
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Trust and Government
Corruption
Criticism and Defense of Big Business
 4,000 millionaires in 1900’s
 Industrialists gave money to colleges,
schools, hospitals and museums.
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Impact of Industrialism
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Helped the Middle Class buy cars, telephones
and homes
Sears’ Catalog made lots of money because
people bought from it
Life for the average American was difficult
 poor
living conditions
 high rent
 little money for food
 7%earned diplomas
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Impact of Industrialism
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Working conditions
 10-15
hour worked days
 demoralizing and dehumanized conditions
 low pay and horrible conditions
 children worked long hours and unsafe
conditions
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Impact of Industrialism
 Many workers came from Mexico and
China who worked for low wages
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Organized Labor
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The Knight s of Labor - Terence
Powderly - 8 hours, income tax
The American Federation of
Labor led by Samuel Gompers
Wobblies or industrial workers
of the world - Daniel De Leon
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Organized Labor
Molly Maguires - leftists (socialist) fought
for coal miner rights
 Strikes and violence - people were killed /
6 million dollars of damage
 Union Victories - max. hours of work workers compensation
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Food contamination and
Muckrakers
No safe guard for food
 Meat packing - The Jungle by
Upton Sinclair - unsanitary food
 Ida Tarbell wrote about
Standard Oil.
 Jacob Riis wrote How the Other
Half Lives
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Upton Sinclair
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Ida Tarbell
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Food contamination and
Muckrakers
Mudrakers “would rather rake filth than
look upward to nobler things”-they wrote
about corruption and exposing the ills of
society but didn’t provide solutions for
problems
 stories were sensational accounts of
societal evils
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Toll on the environment
Mining caused lots of pollution
 Forests were destroyed
 Air and water pollution
 Reformers Like John Muir tried save the
environments
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Class Assignment
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Page 5: Sensory Figure
 Ten
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facts
Page 7: Acrostic; Industrialization
 10
illustrations
 2 sentences per letter
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