1. CHAPTER 18 THE RISE OF INDUSTRIAL AMERICA

2. INDUSTRIALIZATION Reasons for rapid expansion Cheap energy New technology Low production costs Unskilled and semi-skilled workers Lowering Consumer prices Low wages

3. INDUSTRIALIZATION Railroad Innovations Cornelius Vanderbilt Jay Gould Selling Stock Trunk lines Rebates and Kickbacks Robber Barons

4. INDUSTRIALIZATION Regulating Railroads The Interstate Commerce Act The Interstate Commerce Commission Pools Siding with the Railroads

5. INDUSTRIALIZATION Andrew Carnegie Railroads and steel Consolidating Businesses The Bessemer Process Vertical Integration Horizontal Integration Philanthropy J.P. Morgan

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7. John D. Rockefeller Standard Oil Company Integration the oil industry The first trust The Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)

8. INDUSTRIALIZATION Alexander Graham Bell (1876): Inventor of the telephone. Founder of Bell Telephone Company which eventually became known as AT&T.

9. INDUSTRIALIZATION Thomas Alva Edison : perfected the light bulb and electric generator in 1879. 1882: Edison’s company began providing electricity to New York City. 1889: several of Edison’s companies came together to form Edison General Electric Company which is known as GE today.

10. INDUSTRIALIZATION Thaddeus Lowe : invented the ice machine shortly after the Civil War. Gustavus Swift (1870’s) : hired an engineer to develop a refrigerated rail car (reduced the risk of food poisoning.) Cyrus Field (1866): laid a telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean. Thaddeus Lowe

11. INDUSTRIALIZATION The New South Reasons why the South lagged behind the North The New South Creed Industrial fairs Textile Mills Mill Towns

12. INDUSTRIALIZATION The increase in industrial workers Industrially induced diseases Accidents in the factories Health care

13. INDUSTRIALIZATION Who received the lowest paying jobs? French Canadians The Chinese Railroads Working Conditions

14. INDUSTRIALIZATION Women in the workforce The Gospel of Success Rags to Riches Stories (Horatio Alger) Mark Twain The Gilded Age

15. INDUSTRIALIZATION The National Labor Union The Knights of Labor Terrence Powderly Social and Economic Reforms The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) The Haymarket Square Bombing

16. INDUSTRIALIZATION The American Federation of Labor Samuel Gompers Problems for Unions Yellow Dog Contracts Injunctions

17. INDUSTRIALIZATION The Pullman Strike The Depression of 1893 The American Railway Union Eugene Debs The General Managers Association President Grover Cleveland The Results of the Pullman Strike

18. INDUSTRIALIZATION Andrew Carnegie The Gospel Of Wealth William Graham Sumner What Social Classes Think Frank Ward Dynamic Sociology Edward Bellamy Looking Backward Edward Bellamy