The 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.
Important Inventions:
-telegraph
-telephone
-lighting
Railroads:
They had a huge impact on the US and they improved business, transported people and goods.
Andrew Carnegie was a rich man who made steel.
He paid his workers fairly well compared to others because he knew that people weren't getting paid very much for what they were doing. He felt that he wanted to have his own union. He wanted the labor to have more rights and be protected under different laws which was different from many others at the time.
John Rockefeller was very famous and they had to do with gas and wealth.
If you don't make changes to your business it makes you able to adapt to change and it will improve your business.
Roosevelt was the one who went after Rockefeller who created a monopoly by eliminating all the other competition. He was making a lot of money, one of the many things he was looking at and trying to get rid of.
In 1902 Roosevelt's administration brought suit against the giants of the railroad industry.
Unions fought for better raises, reasonable hours, and better working conditions. Even in present day, that's all really the Union goes for. Safety is better now than it was before.
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