Ch. 20 Immigrants and Urban Life Last Chapter This Chapter: Next Chapter Ch. 18 Americans Move West Ch. 20 Immigrants and Urban Life Ch. 19 The Industrial Age 1876- 1900 Pgs 611- 629 Is about: How the United States became an industrial power in the late 1800’s. Chapter 19 focuses the rise of the Second Industrial Revolution centered around new industries, inventions, and ways of manufacturing goods. As big businesses grew companies began to dominate entire industries. Poor working conditions were a result of the enormous power of these industries and workers began to organize and take action. Essential Questions for the Chapter: How did the Second Industrial Revolution build upon the First Industrial Revolution? What five factors helped Industry grow? What industries were effected? What new inventions and innovations came about in an effort to improved communication and travel? What new business methods helped corporations to grow? Why and how did the government get involved? Why did conditions in factories begin to decline? In what ways did workers organize to fight for better conditions? Key Vocabulary: Question 1 Second Industrial Revolution mass production efficiency steel industry Bessemer process oil industry assembly line specialization Thomas Edison Edwin L. Drake urbanization Question 3 entrepreneur investment corporation stockholders dividends trust monopolies social Darwinism philanthropy laissez- faire Sherman Antitrust Act regulation vertical integration horizontal integration John D. Rockefeller Leland Stanford Andrew Carnegie Cornelius Vanderbilt robber barons Question 4 Knights of Labor+ Powderly American Federation of Labor+ Samuel Gompers Unions Collective bargaining strikes lockout Haymarket Riot Pullman strike Homestead strike Triangle shirtwaist fire Railroad Strike of 1877 blacklist injunction Quiz: TBA Test: Tuesday, October 30th Question 2 See note sheet for all* *** Henry Ford Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Edison Elijah McCoy Wilbur and Orville Wright