We watched the last presentation today.
Ch. 6
Industrial Revolution
- from 1750-1850
- changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had an effect on the social, economic, and cultural conditions of the times.
- started because our country was groing and we needed things made
Invention in Idustrial Revolution
- steamboats in 1807 by Robert Fulton started first steamboat Railroads
- steam locomotive changed the way goods and people traveled
- telegraph by samuel Morse in 1844- messages could travel over telegraph lines and be recieved in second
- telephone- changed daily lived- was 50,000 by end of 1880
- electric lighting- homes, buildings, and streets in cities and towns were lit by gas
- Cotton Gin- had a great effect on clothing and life in the US
Impact of Railroads
- they had major business
- major changes of industrial revolution
- transported people and goods
- ook less time to get people from one place to the next
- brought goods froom one place to the other much faster than beforeallowed westward expansion
Andrew Carnegie
- captains of industry of 19th cenury America
- helped build the formidable American steel industry
- turned a poor young man into one of the richest entrepreneurs of his age
- was unusual among the industrial captains of his day because he preached for the rights of laborers to unionize and to protect their jobs
- was an immigrant so he was pro workers and paid them fairly well compared to other workers
- Homestead Strike of 1892- threw his supports behind plant manager Henry Frick
John D. Rockefeller
- at 16 became a clerk in a commission house
- 1850 went into business with a young englishman, Maurice Clark
- one of the business problems he encountered was the high cost of transporting his oil to his Cleveland refineries
- within 4 years his competitors were out of business
- he was one of America's most hated men
Social Darwinism
- belief, popular in the late Victorian Era in England, American, and elsewear
- states that the strongest or fittest should survive and flourish in society while the weah and unfir should be allowed to die
- idea of survival of the fittest and if you have the best business idea or theory, you should survive and flourish, but if not your business deserves to crumble
Roosevelt
- realized that the trust problem would not be resolved by judicial review and that a more organized approach was needed
- went after Rockefeller and monopolies
1902 Beef Trust
- suits against the giants of the railroad industry in 1902
- trying to do something against the critical monopoly situation
Labor Units
- industrial sector, organized labor unions fought for better wages, reasonable hours, and safer working conditions
- led efforts to stop child labor, give health benefirs and provide aid to workers who were injured or retired
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