US History: Immigration and Industrialization

Immigration and Industrialization

End of the 19th Century, Beginning of the 20th

The Rise of Big Business

Bring on the Steel

Andrew Carnegie’s Steel Empire

J.P. Morgan’s Bank Empire

Business Tycoons

Rockefeller’s Oil Empire

Immigration Ellis Island in New York City

Angel Island in San Francisco

Urbanization

A New Workplace

Low Wages

Long Hours

Child Labor

Rise of Organized Labor

Pullman Luxury RailcarHarper’s Weekly Pullman

Strike of 1894

Left: Town of Pullman

George Pullman

Impact of Urbanization

Solving City Problems

Above Left: Jane AddamsAbove Center: Hull House in Chicago, IllinoisAbove Right: Mother Cabrini

Public Education Begins The 3 R’s:

Reading, wRiting, aRithmatic

Above: In the South, African Americans were placed in segregated “colored” schools which received 2 to 3 times less money than white schools.

Below: Interior of public school classroom, in Wichita, Kansas. The students are

sitting with hands folded on their desks.