2. Importance of railroad
1865: 35,000 miles of track, 1900: 192,556
Congress gives land to railroad companies
Union Pacific railroad commissioned from Omaha
Credit Mobilier
Central Pacific from California
Irish vs. Chinese workers
Steel rails made possible by Bessemer process
Westinghouse air brakes, Pullman cars, standard gauge

3. Importance of railroad?
Time zones created because of railroads
Corruption and the modern company
First examples of trusts

4. Government involvement
The Grange: organization of farmers
Rebates
Wabash Case
Interstate commerce act (1887)
Alexander G. Bell (1876)
Thomas Edison (1879)
Andrew Carnegie
JP Morgan ($400 million to Carnegie)
Rockefeller

5. Captains of Industry Cornelius Vanderbilt George Westinghouse
George Pullman
Jay Gould is back (and still shady)
Thomas Edison (1879)
Andrew Carnegie
JP Morgan ($400 million to Carnegie)
Rockefeller

6. More industry
Gospel of Wealth
James Buchanon Duke

7. New Industrial Revolution
Impact on America
Gibson Girl
Employment practices
yellow dog contracts, scabs, company town,lockout

8. Labor unions Knights of labor haymarket square riot
AFL (samuel gompers)