*African American Response to Jim Crow *Big Business *Growth of Industry
African American Response to Jim Crow Both men wanted to achieve equality for African Americans BOOKER T. WASHINGTON believed equality for African Americans could be achieved through vocational education [learning carpentry, how to lay bricks, etc.]. He accepted social separation. He felt African Americans could advance more quickly through hard work then by demanding equal rights. WEB DUBOIS believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans. He felt that African Americans should speak out constantly against discrimination. DuBois believed the way to beat prejudice was for college-educated African Americans to lead the fight against it.
Plessy vs. Ferguson: Supreme Court Case Separate facilities for blacks and whites Social Segregation: schools, restaurants, parks Jim Crows upheld Legalizes discrimination
REASONS FOR THE RISE OF BIG BUSINESS Faster transportation; trains; transport good over long distances Lower costs; mass production, assembly line Advertising; made people spend and buy more Captains of Industry; created monopolies John D. Rockefeller Andrew Carnegie Cornelius Vanderbilt J. P. Morgan
Captains of Industry John D. Rockefeller: Oil Cornelius Vanderbilt: Shipping/Railroads Andrew Carnegie: Steel J. P. Morgan: Banking
CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY Andrew Carnegie Cornelius Vanderbilt John D. Rockefeller J. P. Morgan
FACTORS THAT HELPED INDUSTRIES GROW Easy access to raw materials and energy (electricity); transport over long distances Immigrant Labor; more people than jobs; immigrants willing to work long hours for little pay; population growth New inventions; cars, light bulbs, telephones, etc.; positive and negative effects Financial resources; new ways to borrow money to start business; investment capital
CHANGES TO FARM AND CITY LIFE Mechanization reduce farm labor needs and increases production; more product with less labor Industrial development increases labor needs; more factories need more people to work in them Industrialization provided access to consumer goods; mail order catalog
America Grows after Civil War Industrial Nation Agricultural Nation Factors of Industrial Growth