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1 The Growth and Development of Industry in America

2 Ripe for industry Abundant raw materials Large labor supply Technological advances Growing number of entrepreneurs Federal assistance Expanding domestic and international markets

3 Visionaries and New Inventions Thomas Edison 1847-1931

4 Visionaries and New Inventions Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922

5 New Steel Production Techniques Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Rise of the Rise of the Petroleum Industry Petroleum Industry Pioneer Oil Run, 1865

6 Andrew Carnegie Rags to Riches U.S. Steel The Gospel of Wealth

7 Wilbur and Orville Wright Other Visionaries: The Airplane The Wright Brothers (Library of Congress)

8 Other Visionaries: The Automobile Gottfried Daimler Henry Ford

9 Henry Ford “You can paint it any color, so long as it’s black”

10 Transportation Advances Continued growth of the railroad Railroad tycoons Cornelius Vanderbilt Andrew Carnegie Jay Gould Corporations Limited liability Consolidated Organizations Horizontal integration Vertical integration MonopoliesRockefellerTrusts Ida Tarbell J.P. Morgan

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12 “Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt

13 Biltmore Estate

14 Jay Gould “Robber Baron”

15 John D. Rockefeller “The growth of a large business is merely survival of the fittest”

16 Ida Tarbell

17 J.P. Morgan

18 J.P. Morgan…on life You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree. Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one. A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.

19 Social Darwanism vs. Philanthropy Survival of the fittest The Gospel of Wealth Russell Conwell Horatio Alger Socialist Labor Party Henry George Edward Bellamy

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21 Business and the Courts

22 The Republican Party Stalwarts Roscoe Conkling Half-Breeds James Blaine “Mugwumps” James A. Garfield (1881) Charles Julius Guiteau Chester A. Arthur ( 1881-1885) Pendleton Act Tariff Act of 1883

23 James A. Garfield (1881) R

24 Chester Arthur (1881-1885) R

25 The Democrats Grover Cleveland (1885-1889) & (1893- 1897)

26 Grover Cleveland (1885-1889) & (1893-1897) D

27 Political Cartoon

28 Politics of the Day The Populists “Free Silver” The Protective Tariff The Sherman Anti-Trust Act

29 Sherman Anti-trust Cartoon

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31 The Labor Movement Economic depression 5 Types of industrial work Common labor Skilled labor Factory labor Sweatshop Labor Mining

32 Workingman’s Plight Immigrant Workers Divisions within the ranks Divisions within the ranks Ethnic rivalry Ethnic rivalry Labor Contract Law Women & children

33 Thousands of immigrants arrived through Ellis Island daily…

34 Child Labor

35 Triangle Shirtwaist Company

36 Unable to use fire escapes, workers jumped to their deaths

37 146 Workers died that day…

38 Unionization Molly Maguires Knights of Labor AFL

39 A “Coffin” Notice for the Molly Maguires

40 Labor Strikes The Great Railroad Strike Coxey’s Army Haymarket Square Homestead Strike Pullman Strike

41 Haymarket Square 1890

42 Homestead Strike

43 Homestead Quarters of the Military

44 Putting down the strikers

45 George Pullman & Striking workers

46 Eugene Debs 1855-1926


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