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1 A New Industrial Age Chapter 6

2 Natural Resources Fuel Industrialization
Oil Edwin Drake Rise of the Refining Industry Bessemer Steel Iron: Plentiful yet not flexible Steel: Expensive  Bessemer Process Cheaper, faster, stronger, BETTER! Oil-1859 Edwin Drake drilled for oil, Made retrieving from earth practical, Led to rise of refining industry Bessemer Steel-Iron was plentiful, but soft, not flexible, and steel was expensive Bessemer Process- new manufacturing process to mass produce -cheaper -faster -stronger/ better

3 New uses for steel: Railroads Barbed wire
Construction- skyscrapers, bridges

4 Inventions Thomas Edison Christopher Sholes Alexander Graham Bell
light bulb Christopher Sholes Typewriter Alexander Graham Bell telephone 1880 Thomas Edison patented light bulb--Invented system for producing and distributing power How did electricity change peoples’ lives? How did these inventions affect women? How did inventions/ industrialization change the lives of average people? How did industry change the environment? (Read pgs )

5 Furthering Industrialization:
development of the airplane expansion of the railroads mass production of automobiles widespread use of steamboats

6 Importance of the Railroads
Aided Westward Expansion Made movement in the West easier, faster, and safer Employed thousands of immigrants Destroyed Buffalo Pushed Native Americans to reservations Developed Time Zones Munn V. Illinois Interstate Commerce Act

7 Philosophies of the late 1800s
Laissez faire- government should not regulate business; common practice Social Darwinism- applied “natural selection” to evolution of human society “Success and failure in business and society are governed by natural law—no one has the right not intervene” (6.a)

8 Andrew Carnegie Captain of Steel Industry
Manufactured more steel than all of Great Britain Organized business- vertical integration Coal fields Iron mines Ore freighters Railroads Steel mills Vertical Integration: a process in which he bought out his suppliers in order to control the raw materials and transportation systems.

9 Gospel of Wealth

10 Fewer Control More Monopolies Standard Oil Company
J.P. Morgan (Carnegie Steel) John D. Rockefeller (Standard Oil Trust) Standard Oil Company Controlled 90% of refineries Robber Barons Philanthropists Horizontal Integration

11 Sherman Antitrust Act- 1890 law passed to outlaw trusts/ monopolies that interfered with free trade

12 Why did women join the workforce?
What impact did women have on the workforce? How were they treated differently from men?

13 What impact did children have on the workforce
What impact did children have on the workforce? Why would company owners want to use child labor? What role did immigrants play in industrialization?

14 Labor Unions Emerge Issues Workers Faced Daily: 12 hr. Workday
6 days a week No Time off (Vacation or Sick) No unemployment or Workers’ Comp Unsafe Working Conditions Children forced to work Tenements—(Horrible Living Conditions) Define Labor Union… Discuss possibilities of why they were formed… How did it benefit members?

15 How the Other Half Lives- Jacob Riis
Read quote pg. 245 What was the topic of Riis’ book? As a result of this book, how did the city govt improve the lives of the people?

16 Labor Union Strikes Great Strike of 1877: Haymarket Riot of 1886:
Protested Pay Cut 50,000 miles of RR work came to halt Federal Troops ended it…WHY?? Haymarket Riot of 1886: Workers Protested treatment Bomb went off, killing many How did this affect the KofL?

17 Labor Union Strikes Homestead Strike of 1892: Pullman Strike of 1894:
Steel workers/Pay Cuts Pinkertons Shootouts! Pullman Strike of 1894: RR Workers/Wage Cuts Arbitration Federal Troops What was the impact of all of these strikes on the labor union movement? (Class Discussion)

18 A Fight for the Women Mary Harris Jones ILGWU
Equal Pay for Equal Work Better Working Conditions End of Child Labor Mary Harris Jones ILGWU International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union All Women Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911) Mary Harris Jones: led kids on march to Pres. T. Roosevelt’s home- This influenced child labor laws ILGWU—page 248 Public demanding reform when 146 women were killed in Fire

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