- industrial revolutution
- 1750-1850
- where there were changes in agriculture
- manufacturing
- mining
- transpotation
- and technology had profound on the social
- since the countey was griwing we needed more
inventions
- the steam boat changed the way goods and people traveled faster
- railroads same as steamboat
- telagraph lines helped people comunicate with out traveling or writing
- the telephone
- mid 1800s lights were lit by gas so we did not have to use fire
impact of railroads
- transported goods and people faster
- a major change to the US diamic
- westward expansion happened
Andrew Carnegie
- captain of industry of the 19th century america
- helped build the formidable American steel industry
- one of the richest in the 20th century
- was a mass steal producer
- as a bobbin boy had made 1.20 a week
- 1900 Carnegie Steel produced more of the metal than all of great brittain
- his family was an immigrant family
- he preached for the rights of laborers to unionize and to protect thier jobs
John D rockefeller
- born in richford, new yourk in 1839
- age 16 became a clerk in a commissiion house
- made much money with gas
- died 1919-08-11
Social Darwinism and how did it apply to business
- is a belief that was popular in the late victorian era in England
- survival of the fittest you can adapt and change
Roosevelt
- was really tryna bust up the monopolies at that time
- tryna get rid of them
- 1902 Beef Trust
- in 1902 Roosevelt administration brought suit against giants of the railroad industry and the Beef Trust.
labor units
- grew out of need to protect the common interest of workers. for those in the industrial sector organized labor unions fought for better wages responsible hous and safer working conditions
- led efforts to stop child labor
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