Bailey Warrior Nippert
Industrial Revolution: A period from 1750 to 1850 where changes in agriculutre, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the social, economic, and cultural conditions of the times. Our country was growing and we needed things made. Steamboat was invented in 1807. The invention of the team locomotive again changed the way goods were transported as well as people. The telegraph was invented by Sam Morse in 1844. Communication: Messages could travel over telegraphs lines and be received in seconds. The telephone. BY the end of 1880 almost 50,000 people had telephones. Electric lighting in the mid 1800! Homes, buildings, and streets across America were lit by gas. The people could afford it. Th invention of the cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney.Railroads had a huge impact on the US. They had major business. They transported people and goods. They took a lot less time to get from one place to the next. They would bring goods from one place to the other much faster than before the railroads. Andrew Carnegie: One of the captains of industry in America. He helped build the formidable American steel industry. He turned from poor to one of the richest entrepreneurs of his age. Carnegie preached fro the rights of laborers to unionize and to protect their jobs. During the Homestead Strike of 1892, Carnegie threw his support behind plant manager Henry Frick, who locked out workers and hired Pinkerton thugs to intimidate strikers. He was able to mass produce steel in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. In 1900 Carnegie Steel produced more of the metal than all of the companies in Britain. Rockefeller: Born in Richford, New York. At 16 he became a clerk in a commission house. In 1850 he went into business with a young Englishman. Within a year four of his 30 competitors were out of business. IN 1896 Rockefeller was worth about 200 million dollars. Social Darwinism is a belief popular in the late Victorian era in England, America, which states that the strongest or fittest should survive and flourish in society, while the weak and unfit should be allowed to die. Spencer is credited with being the firs to make this extrapolation of Darwinian thought to human societal... ROOSEVELT: Despite many successful prosecutions during his administration, he realized that the trust problem would not be resolved by judicial review and that a more organized approach was needed. Early in his presidency Roosevelt realized that the monopoly situation had reached a critical point and that something had to be done. In 1902 Roosevelt's administration brought suit against the giants of the railroad industry and the Beef Trust. The labor movement of the US grew out of the need to protect the common interest of workers. For those in the industrial sector, organized labor unions fought for better working wages, reasonable hours, and safer working conditions. The labor movement led efforts to stop child labor, give health benefits, and provide aid to workers who were injured or retired.
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