Industry Comes of Age - Oak Park Independent...The “Robber Barons” “Captains of Industry ” Andrew Carnegie Bessemer Process William Kelley Henry Bessemer Carnegie Steel Co

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Industry Comes of Age 1866-1900

Presented by: Mr. Anderson, M.Ed., J.D.

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 Collis 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

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

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Railroad Regulation

Begins

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

Morgan

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

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John D. Rockefeller Standard Oil Trust Holding Company 1889

Rockefeller

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“Gospel of Wealth” Andrew Carnegie Charles Darwin

Herbert Spencer “Law of the Jungle”

Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 Spencer Darwin

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890

Political Cartoon

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Political Cartoon

Teddy’s Way of

Handing Trusts

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Political Cartoon

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

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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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Pre-Industrial Conditions Contract Labor Law

Corporations Fight Unions Scabs – Court Injunctions

Lockouts – Black Lists Yellow Dog Contracts

Company Towns

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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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American Federation of Labor

Samuel Gompers – 1880s Panic of 1893

Powderly Gompers

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Chinese worker - http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10021656+X-21656

Chinese Workers 1 - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/flipomatic/cic/images@ViewImage?img=brk00003107_16a

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Cornelius Vanderbilt 1 - http://voteview.uh.edu/images/vanderb2.gif

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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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Oil Field 1 - http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10022278+X-22278

Charles Darwin 1 - http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/96feb/darwin.html

Herbert Spencer 1 - http://www.econlib.org/library/LFBooks/Spencer/Spencer.jpg

Monopoly pirates - http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/uscartoons/gapecartoons/TrustsAsPirates.htm

Carnegie Trusts - http://www.authentichistory.com/images/postcivilwar/cartoons/189x_andrew_carnegie_01.html

Rockefeller Trust - http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/uscartoons/verdict/ht/22Jan1900.htm

Roosevelt and the Trusts - http://search.eb.com/elections/pri/Q00121.html

PowerHouse Mechanic - http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/picturing_the_century/portfolios/port_hine.html#

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