chapter twenty-four industry comes of age 1866-1900

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Chapter Twenty-four Industry Comes of Age 1866-1900

American PageantKennedy, Cohen, & Bailey

Carnegie Steel Mill, Youngstown, Ohio, 1910

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Growth of Railroads

1860 – 35,000 Miles of Track 1900 – 192,000 Miles of Track

Central Pacific-Union Pacific Railway, 1869

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Growth of Railroads

Union Pacific – Central Pacific Union Pacific – Irish Workers Central

Pacific – Chinese Workers

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Growth of Railroads

Union Pacific – Central Pacific

Leland Stanford Colis Huntington Promontory, Utah -

1869

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Growth of Railroads

Northern Pacific – 1883 Atchinson, Topeka, & Santa Fe – 1884 Southern

Pacific – 1884 Great Northern - 1893

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Growth of Railroads

Consolidation Cornelius Vanderbilt

New York Central RR Baltimore & Ohio RR Pennsylvania Railroad Erie Railroad

All Rails Connected to Chicago

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Growth of Railroads

Technology Advancements

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Standard Gauge Steel Rails Double Track Westinghouse Air Brake Pullman Palace Car

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Growth of Railroads

Corruption in Railroads

Stock Watering Milking the Farmer Bribing

Government Officials Pools Rebates

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Farmers Organize

Against the Railroads

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Oliver H. Kelley

National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry

Depression of 1873 Cooperative Stores Grain

Elevators Crop Warehouses

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Farmers Organize

Against the Railroads

aFarmers Alliance Charles Macune Northern Alliance Southern Alliance Colored Alliance People’s Party - Populists

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Railroad Regulation

Begins

aGranger Laws Wabash Case (1886)

Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 Interstate Commerce

Commission

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The “Robber Barons”

“Captains of Industry”

Andrew Carnegie Bessemer Process William Kelley Henry Bessemer Carnegie Steel Co. “Gospel of Wealth” $324 Million to Charity

Carnegie

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The “Robber Barons”

“Captains of Industry”

J. Pierpont Morgan Railroad Reorganization Investment Banker U.S. Steel Corp 1901

Morgan

14Rockefeller

The “Robber Barons”

“Captains of Industry”

John D. Rockefeller 1859 – Edwin L. Drake Kerosene Lamp Fuel 1863 – Standard Oil Consolidation/Trusts

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The “Robber Barons”

“Captains of Industry”

John D. Rockefeller Standard Oil Trust Holding Company 1889

Rockefeller

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The “Robber Barons”

“Captains of Industry”

“Gospel of Wealth” Andrew Carnegie Charles Darwin Herbert Spencer “Law of the Jungle” Sherman

Anti-Trust Act of 1890Spencer Darwin

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890

PoliticalCartoon

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890

PoliticalCartoon

Teddy’s Way of

Handing Trusts

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890

Political Cartoon

The Trust Giant’s Point of View “What a Funny Little Government!”

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890

Political Cartoon

One Sees His Finish Unless Good Government Retakes the Ship

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Rise of the Labor Movement

Child Labor Manual Labor Female Labor

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Rise of the Labor Movement

Pre-Industrial Conditions Contract Labor Law

Corporations Fight Unions Scabs – Court Injunctions

Lockouts – Black Lists Yellow Dog Contracts

Company Towns

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Rise of the Labor Movement

National Labor Union – 1866 Panic of 1873 Knights of

Labor – 1869 (Noble & Holy Order of

Knights of Labor) Terence V, Powderly Haymarket Riots - 1886

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Rise of the Labor Movement

American Federation of Labor

Samuel Gompers – 1880s Panic of 1893

Powderly Gompers

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Oliver H. Kelley 1 - http://www.mnhs.org/places/sites/ohkf/ohkf-doc.html

Andrew Carnegie 1 - http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/carnegie/aa_carnegie_subj_e.html

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