1. Industrial Growth During the Gilded Age 1880-1919

2. Industry expands Age of Railroads Big Business and Labor $$$$ and poverty....

3. Causes Nation has wealth of natural resources Explosion of inventions improve business and manufacturing efficiency Growing urban populations provide workers and markets Railroads establish new markets Industrial Growth Effects Big business emerge Business consolidates under monopolies and trusts workers endure harsh conditions labor unions develop

4. Railroad $$$

5. Munn v Illinois Court case that gave the states rights to regulate railroads and the rates they charged. RR had gotten so big they were ripping people off

6. Credit Mobilier Scandal major railroad scandal under President Grant

7. George M Pullman Designed the Pullman car for trains. Built whole cities to produce Pullman cars

8. Transcontinental Railroad Nations first railroad that went from east coast to west coast and back. It was a combination of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads. They met at Promontory Point, Utah in 1869

9. The Inventors

10. Alexander Graham Bell inventor of telephone

11. Thomas Alva Edison inventor of electricity

12. Richest Americans Now

15. Richest Americans Then

16. Andrew Carnegie Steel businessman Today, he would be worth $250 Billion dollars

17. John D Rockefeller One of the wealthiest and most powerful industrialists as head of Standard Oil Company today his wealth would be worth $190 billion dollars!

18. Greed, Guile, Corruption

19. What Does That Wealth Look Like?

20. The Gilded Age meant several lavish “summer cottages” or “castles” were built by the wealthy. In one party guests received party favors of precious jewels even as a deep Depression left thousands of children homeless and starving.

21. How Did They Get That Rich?

22. Social Darwinism promoted business competition - let the best business win....

23. Horizontal integration Merging/combining of similar companies

24. Vertical integration Owning all aspects of a business - from raw materials through production, through packaging, distribution, and selling

25. Robber Barons running Congress

26. Is Everyone Rich in America During This Gilded Age

27. During the "Gilded Age," every man was a potential Andrew Carnegie, and Americans who achieved wealth celebrated it as never before. In New York, the opera, the theatre, and lavish parties consumed the ruling class' leisure hours. Sherry's Restaurant hosted formal horseback dinners for the New York Riding Club. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish once threw a dinner party to honor her dog who arrived sporting a $15,000 diamond collar.

28. Tenement Housing a sub standard, multi-family dwelling inmulti-family dwelling the urban core, usually old and occupied by the poor.

29. Tenement Housing

30. Corruption extended to the highest levels of government. During Ulysses S. Grant's presidency, the president and his cabinet were implicated in the Credit Mobilier, and the Whiskey Ring as well as other notorious scandals

31. What About The Workers?

32. What Is A Union?

33. A labor union is an organization of workers dedicated to protecting their interests and improving wages, hours and working condition s

34. Samuel Gompers president of American Federation of Labor (AFL) union of workers

35. American Federation of Labor one of the first American labor unions: craft unions like plumbers, iron workers, etc.

36. Eugene Debs head head of Industrial Workers of the World Union

37. Industrial Workers of the World very large union of industrial workers throughout the world

38. What Laws Control the Rich Robber Barons? What Laws Make Competition Fair?

39. Sherman Antitrust Act Made monopolies illegal

40. Interstate Commerce Act Law that made it illegal to form trusts that interfered with free trade between states

41. Populism The movement to try and protect farmers during the gilded age. It tried to increase farmers political power and to work for legislation in their interest.

42. Plessy v Ferguson 1896

43. Supreme Court says: Separate but equal is ok