Machine Age/Gilded Age

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Machine Age/Gilded Age Part #1

Captains of Industry/Monopolists/Robber Barons? Andrew Carnegie John D. Rockefeller J.P. Morgan

Causes of Rapid Industrialization Unskilled & semi-skilled labor in abundance. Abundant capital. New, talented group of businessmen [entrepreneurs] and advisors. Market growing as US population increased. Government willing to help at all levels to stimulate economic growth. Abundant natural resources.

Causes of Rapid Industrialization Technological innovations. Bessemer and open hearth process Refrigerated cars Edison “Wizard of Menlo Park” light bulb, phonograph, motion pictures.

“Model T” Prices & Sales

2. Social Darwinism British economist. Advocate of laissez-faire. Adapted Darwin’s ideas from the “Origin of Species” to humans. Notion of “Survival of the Fittest.” Herbert Spencer

2. Social Darwinism in America Individuals must have absolute freedom to struggle, succeed or fail. Therefore, state intervention to reward society and the economy is futile! William Graham Sumner Folkways (1906)

New Type of Business Entities Pool 1887 Interstate Commerce Act  Interstate Commerce Commission created. Trust  John D. Rockefeller Standard Oil Co.

New Type of Business Entities Trust: Horizontal Integration  John D. Rockefeller Vertical Integration: Gustavus Swift  Meat-packing Andrew Carnegie  U. S. Steel

New Type of Business Entities

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