Rise of Industrialism• Rise of Industrialism
• Key Factors in Industrial Growth
• Government support for Industrialism
Skyscraper New York City 1901
• The Spirit of Innovation• Steel is King
• Electricity becomes widespread
• Machines increase production
John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil
• Industrial Giants
• John D. Rockefeller and Oil
• Andrew Carnegie and Steel
• Other Industry Leaders
• “The Gilded Age”
“Bosses of the Senate” political cartoon from PUCK magazine
• The Rise of Industrial Trusts
• Trusts Influence Government Affairs
• City Government Corruption
Andrew Carnegie
• Wealthy Americans Face Criticism
• Industrialists Defend Big Business
Steel workers in a steel mill
• Industrialization benefits the middle class
• Life for average Americans
• Industrial working conditions
• Low pay and reasons to stay
Coal miners, most of whom are boys, in Pennsylvania
• Industrialism and women
• Child labor
• Minority and Immigrant Laborers
Strikers at a textile mill in Massachusetts, being held back by federal troops
• Labor Unions emerge• Business response to labor• Strikes and violence• Union victories
Public food inspection
• Consumer fraud
• The meatpacking Industry
• muckrackers
Hillside oil derricks and driller’s shanties in Pioneer Run, Pennsylvania in 1865
• Environmental impact
• Mining and deforestation
• Air and water pollution
• Environmental reformers