Monday- Continue presentations
Tuesday-review for group tests
Wednesday-watch video about Carnegie/Vanderbilt while groups take tests
Thursday-Continue group test taking
-Railroads Span Time and Space
1856 Railroads reached all of Mississippi
Union Pacific Railroads met at Promontory, Utah on May 10, 1869
140000
10 miles/day
Transcontinental Railroad
Omaha followed the Platte River crossed the Rocky Mountains, through Northern Utah and Nevada to Sacramento, California
Romance and Reality
Go anywhere at any price
Continental railroad
$136 first class
$110 Second Class
$65 Third Class
Across the country in 7 days
Railroad Time
Time before Railroad Time was the sun
Justified time
24 zones
central time zone 6:00
USA-6 zones
Alaskan, Hawaiian, Pacific, Mountain, Central, Eastern
The Grange and the Railroads
Railroad Abuses-
Farmers upset at railroad companies for the misuse of their land grants and overchargin
Granger Laws
The railroads mistreated farmers
The Granger laws helped the farmers
Made the price to ship things on the railroad
Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin were the main states
Interstate Commerce Act made reasonable prices
Panic and Consolidation
Businesses were ruined and closed because they were bankrupt
Left 4million people out of a job
Andrew Carnegie
Born in Scotland moved to US 1848, 13 years of age started working
Age 17 joined the railroad industry and quit to join steel industry and opened up his own business Carnegie Steel
Monopolized the steel industry
Bought out other companies that were smaller
Owned everything
Sherman Anti Trust Act
Established in 1890
Ruled out monopolies
President Benjamin Harrison
Social Darwinism
Stating that the weaker die off and the stronger live
Union Movements Diverge
Created to protect workers
Spreaed and split into two factions
Craft Unionism and Industrial Unionism
Labor Union-people coming together fighting for their rights in their business to get better wages and working conditions
Industrial Unionism-Organized everyone reguardless of skill
More leverage bargaining and strike situations
Strike Turns Violent
July 4th 1877
ten percent wage cut for the third time
Impeding interstate and commerce
Stopped trade between states
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