Industrial Revolution
- Was a period from 1750 to 1850 where changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the social, economic and cultural conditions of the times.
Inventions
- steamboat railroads-changed the way goods and people traveled across the water
- Steamlocamotive-way people traveled
- Telegraph-Samuel F.B-messages could be recieved in seconds
- Telephone
- Electric lighting-mid 1800s-Replaced gas lights in homes
- Cotton Gin-Eli Whitney
Railroads
- Transported people and goods to many different areas-lead to westward expansion
- take less time to get people from one place to the next
- Major business
Andrew Carnegie
- captain of industry of 19th century
- helped build the formidable steel industry
- turned from poor to the richest entrepreneur of his age
- Bobbin boy-1.20 a week
- unusual among the industrial captains of his day becasue he preached for the rights of laborers to unionize and to protect their jobs
- Homestead Strike of 1892- he threw his support behind plant manager Henry Frick
- 1900 Carnegie steel produced more of the metal than all of Great Britian
John D. Rockefeller
- became a clerk in a commission house age 16
- 1850 went into business with Maurice Clark
- four of his thirty competitors were out of business in a year
Social Darwinsim
- Belief, popular in the late Victorian era in England, America, and elsewhere,
- That the strongest or fittest should survive and flourish in society
- Weak and unfit should be allowed to Die
- Survival of the fittest
Roosevelt
- regulate business he specifically advocated a commission similar to the Interstate Commerce Commission, one that had jurisdiction over all businesses engaging in interstate commerce
- went after Rockefeller and monopolies
1902 Beef Trust
- suits against the giants of the railroad industry
- trying to do something against the critical monopoly situation
- Roosevelt's administration
Labor units
- led efforts to stop child labor, give health benefits and provide aid to workers wer were injured or retired
- for those in the industrial sector, organized labor unions, fought for better wages reasonable hours and safer working conditions
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