Transcript Chapter 3 The Development of Industrial America 1865-1914

Unit 3: Chapter 3
The Development of Industrial America
1865-1914
Lecture #1
Lecture Review Questions?
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What factors led to the Industrialization of America?
What impact did Industrialization have the cottage
industry?
How did the rise of Big Business lead to organized
labor=unions?
How did industrialization effect people socially &
economically?
What were the elements that made the
Industrial Revolution possible in America?
Natural Resources
Large Workforce
Government Policies
New Technology
America’s Cultural Climate
What impact did industrialization have on society?
Small Towns and Countryside +
Goods made by Hand
Growth of Cities & Factories
Producing manufactured
Goods
What is a manufactured Good?
-Goods made by machine
American industry &
growth of cities
Big business and
Corruption
How did goods go from being
made by hand to machine made?
Cottage industry
Artisans & Tradesmen
Luddites
Textile Mills
Machines & Factory
Workers
Manufactured Goods
How did the rise of BIG Business
effect the nation?
Family owned &
operated to Corporate
America
Captains of Industry or
Robber Barons?
Social Darwinism
Gospel of Wealth
Sherman Antitrust Act
1890
 What were the most important Industries in America in the
early Twentieth Century?
 What are America’s top money making Natural
Resources?
 In what 3 ways did the locomotive become essential to the
Industrial Revolution?
How did industrialization affect the workers?
Why did workers
organize into union?
What were the
Employers Reactions
to Unions?
Why did workers organize into union?
Better Working conditions
8hr Work day
How were they going to get what they
wanted?
Labor Unions:
– Knights of Labor
– American Federation of Labor
What were the Employers Reactions to Unions?
Business Owners Feared having to pay higher wages and
meet other union demands
Why?
– 1. Not being able to compete in market
– 2. Lose money.
3. What did they Do?
– Forbid union meetings
– Fire union organizers
– Yellow Dog Contracts- never participate in union or
strike.
– Refuse to Collectively Bargain even if workers did
strike.
What was the result of the ?
Haymarket Square Riot-Knights of Labor
Homestead Strike-Steel Workers
Pullman Strike- Rail Road Workers Strike
Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
Coal Miner’s Strike
Collective Bargaining