Industry Comes of Age 1865-1900 By David Brooks Logan County High School.

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Industry Comes of Age By David Brooks Logan County High School

Impact of the Railroad 1865– 35,000 miles of track ,556 miles of track

Land given to Railroads

Transcontinental Railroad Union Pacific– Omaha--- West Main labor force was Irish Immigrants Central Pacific– Sacramento– East Main labor Force was Chinese Immigrants

Other Transcontinental RR’s Northern Pacific– Lake Superior to Puget Sound The Atchison– Topeka to Santa Fe Southern Pacific– New Orleans to San Francisco The Great Northern– Duluth to Seattle

Cornelius Vanderbilt The Commodore Consolidated rail lines Amassed a fortune of over $100 million Founded Vanderbilt Univ.

Railroad Innovations Steel track Standard gauge of track width Westinghouse air brake Pullman sleeping car Nov. 18, 1883 Time Zones Created

Railroad Reform Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission

Do Not Write this Down!!! In 1860 the US was the 4 th largest manufacturer in the world, by 1894 it was the largest. How did that happen???

Alexander Graham Bell Invented the Telephone

Thomas Edison Invented Lightbulb, Phonograph, Motion Picture.

Bessemer Process Cheap process of creating steel by blowing cold air onto red hot iron ore.

Trusts A combination of corporations in which stockholders trade their shares of stock to a central board in exchange for trust certificates.

Andrew Carnegie Developed the concept of Vertical Integration. Made fortune in the steel industry 1900– Sold business to J.P. Morgan Morgan created U.S. Steel (1 st billion dollar company)

John D. Rockefeller Horizontal Integration Trusts Standard Oil

Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 Forbid combinations in restraint of trade Had little impact because of loopholes Used to curb labor union growth.

Bosses of the Senate

Industry in the South Civil War to 1900 James Buchanan Duke Textile Mills

Impact of the Industrial Revolution Standard of Living Rose Growth of the Cities Decline in Agriculture Increase in Women and Children in the Workforce Rise of Unions

Photos by Lewis W. Hine

Labor Unions 1866 National Labor Union 1869 Knights of Labor Led by Terence Powderly

Haymarket Square Riots May 4, 1886 Anarchists 1892 Gov. John P. Altgeld

American Federation of Labor Samuel Gompers Skilled Workers

America Moves to the city 1860 No cities over 1 million 1890 NYC, Philly and Chicago over 1 million