Industrial, Urbanization and Immigration

Connections How are the following terms connected? What other connections can you make between terms that your teacher will give you? Tenements, urbanization, trolley car, suburbs Gospel of Wealth, Social Darwinism, Andrew Carnegie, Boss Tweed, lack of city services, immigration

Industrialization Reasons for industrialization – natural resources, large population for the workforce, with a large population comes a large consumer base. Importantance of mass production Monopoly, oligopoly, trust, pools Worker/management relations (injuries on the job etc.)

Industrialization Results of technology in industry- Child labor – reasons Horizontal and Vertical integration Laissez faire, Gospel of Wealth, Social Darwinism Free enterprise and the connection to supply and demand Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller

Industrialization Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison Why did the labor movement fail during the late 1800’s? Haymarket Square incident The AFL The Knights of Labor

Urbanization What two groups increased the cities population? What was the problem of this happening? Political Machines –Examples –Bosses –Who did they control? –Why?

Urbanization Define the Gilded Age Mass transportation Growth of the middle class Why people moved to the city

Immigration New Immigration – from where? Where did most settle? Old Immigration- from where? Where did they settle? Push/pull factors Tenements Ellis Island and Angel Island Ethnic neighborhoods