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Big Business and Organized Labor Chapter 20. I. The Rise of Big Business.

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1 Big Business and Organized Labor Chapter 20

2 I. The Rise of Big Business

3 II. The Second Industrial Revolution

4 Three Related Developments Creation of an interconnected national transportation and communication network The use of electric power The systematic application of scientific research to industrial processes

5 III. Building the Transcontinental Railroads

6 IV. Financing the Railroads Jay Gould

7 Cornelius Vanderbilt

8 Biltmore Estate

9 V. Manufacturing and Inventions Christopher Sholes

10 Alexander Graham Bell

11 Thomas Edison

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14 George Westinghouse

15 VI. Rockefeller and the Oil Trust

16 “I have always regarded it as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.” - John D. Rockefeller

17 VII. Carnegie and the Steel Industry

18 Sir Henry Bessemer

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20 VIII. J.P. Morgan, The Financier

21 IX. Sears and Roebuck Richard SearsAlvah Roebuck

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23 X. Social Trends

24 XI. Child Labor

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27 XII. Disorganized Protest The Molly Maguires

28 XIII. The Railroad Strike of 1877

29 XIV. The Sand Lot Incident

30 XV. Toward Permanent Unions

31 XVI. The Knights of Labor

32 XVII. Anarchism

33 XVIII. The Haymarket Affair

34 XIX. Gompers and the AFL

35 XX. The Homestead Strike

36 XXI. The Pullman Strike

37 XXII. Mother Jones

38 XXIII. Socialism and the Unions Karl Marx

39 Eugene Debs

40 XXIV. The Wobblies


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