Rise of the Railroad
Human Resources | · Civil War Veterans · Ex-Farmers · Immigrants (Irish, Chinese) |
Government Support | · 1860’s Transcontinental Railroad · Land Grants · Grant Era Scandals |
Influence | · Amassing Capital · Opening Up the West · Increasing Markets · Rise of the City in the West · Standardization |
Culture | · Entrepreneurs · Work Ethic · Self-made Men · Horatio Alger |
Impact of Industrialization
New Technologies | Inventions · Communications · Electricity · Power Sources · Transportation · Machine Tools Improvements · Assembly Line · Efficiency Experts · Rubber · Steel |
Rise of the City | Upwards · Elevator · Steel Outwards · Subway · Hinterland Support |
Transportation | · Automobile · Airplane · Subway · Shipping |
Mass Consumerism | · Department Store · Catalogue · Conspicuous Consumption · Disposable Income |
Rise of the Corporation
Structure | · Pools · Trusts · Stock Holders |
Horizontal Integration | · Reduce Competition · Monopolies · Standard Oil · Rockefeller |
Vertical integration | · Reduce Costs · Stabilize Supplies · Meat packing · Steel · Carnegie |
Organization of Labor
Working Conditions | · Long Hours · Poor wages · Dangerous Conditions · Monotony · Child labor |
Unionization | · Collective Bargaining · Strike · Share of Profits · Working Conditions · Knights of Labor · Molly Maguires |
Resistance | · Courts · Strike-Breaking · Lockout · Violence · Anti-American Sentiment · Haymarket Massacre · US Army vs. Workers |
Samuel Gompers | · American Federation of Labor · Nationalize · Businesslike Approach · Cash Reserves · Closed Shops · 15% of Non-Farm Workers |
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