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The Rise of Industrial America (1865 – 1900)

“As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations and monopolies, while the

citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations which should be the carefully

restrained creatures of the law and servants of the people, are fast becoming the masters of the people.”

President Grover Cleveland, 1888

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What is the “American Dream”?• James Truslow Adams, in his book The Epic of

America, which was written in 1931, stated that the American Dream is "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.

• Arnold Swarzenegger - To think that a once scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become Governor of the State of California and stand here in Madison Square Garden to speak on behalf of the President of the United States that is an immigrant's dream. It is the American dream…

• Paula Dean - I am living proof that the American Dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.

• Martin Luther King - I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teaming shore, Send these, the homeless, the tempest-tossed, to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

Emma Lazarus, 1883

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“From Rags to Riches”“In this model republic, this land of the free – so

our orators call it, and why should not we? ‘Tis refreshing to know that without pedigree A man may still climb to the top of the tree.”

Horatio Alger

The Pursuit of Happyness

Protect Your Dreams

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Gilded Age - Mansions

Andrew Carnegie Henry Frick

William Vanderbilt

Caroline Astor

“The Biltmore Estate”, Asheville, N.C.

“The Breakers” - Newport, Rhode Island

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The “Gilded Age”

• Gilded – adj. – to be covered with a thin layer of gold; to falsely make something cheap and inexpensive look pretty and valuable.

• American society was covered with a thin layer of ultra-wealthy people who showed off their wealth (ostentatious), but most people struggled and suffered to survive in very unpleasant conditions.

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Following the devastation of the Civil War and the turmoil of Reconstruction, Americans began to DREAM of happier times. In pursuit of their dreams, “The American Dream”, millions of people immigrated to America and migrated westward in search of financial success, political and religious freedom, and the hope of a better life. Though some people saw their dreams come true as the United States grew into a political, industrial, and economic giant, millions of Americans saw their dreams shattered as they suffered at the expense o f a few powerful people. For most, the “American Dream” became a “Nightmare”.

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Industrialization

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Explain how business and industrial leaders accumulated wealth and wielded political and economic power.

1. On what inventions did the industrial growth of America depend?

Invention Inventor ImportanceHenry Bessemer Cheap method of mass

producing ________

Edwin Drake Steam engine to drill and pump oil from deep in ground

Incandescent light bulb

Replace kerosene as source of light

Telephone Replaced _______ and opened worldwide communications network

Louis Sullivan Cities grew UP and OUT

Thomas Edison was the most important inventor of the Industrial Age because he established Menlo Park where thousands of inventions were born.

Invention Inventor ImportanceBessemer Process Henry Bessemer Cheap method of mass

producing steel

Oil Drake Edwin Drake Steam engine to drill and pump oil from deep in ground

Incandescent light bulb

Thomas Edison Replace kerosene as source of light

Telephone Alexander Graham Bell

Replaced telegraph and opened worldwide communications network

Skyscraper Louis Sullivan (p.483) Cities grew UP and OUT

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Objective 5.2 – Explain how business and industrial leaders accumulated wealth and wielded

political and economic power.2. Who were the most prominent “Captains of

Industry” and with what industries were they associated?

“Captain of Industry” Industry Oil Refinery

•Andrew Carnegie•William & Cornelius Vanderbilt

Finance / Banking

“Captain of Industry” Industry •John D. Rockefeller Oil Refinery•Andrew Carnegie Steel•William & Cornelius Vanderbilt

Railroad

•J.P. Morgan Finance / Banking

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“Captains of Industry”

Andrew Carnegie - Steel

Cornelius Vanderbilt - Railroad

J.P. Morgan - Banking

John D. Rockefeller - Oil

William Vanderbilt – Railroad

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3. What methods did the “Captains of Industry” use to create their business empires and accumulate massive wealth?

– Corporations – capital intensive businesses require large sums of $$$; stockholders pool $ together; “economies of scale”: higher profits from mass production, lower costs, less competition

– Combination / Consolidation / Integration – the combination of smaller businesses into larger ones to reduce competition; mergers and buy-outs

– Horizontal consolidation – effort to eliminate competition by merging companies that produce similar products; Monopolies (John D. Rockefeller) Slide 27

– Vertical consolidation – effort to cut costs by owning mines, farms, oil wells and railroads – control raw materials and transportation (Andrew Carnegie)

– Trusts – competing companies that agree not to compete; turn stock over to Board of Trustees who run separate companies as one corporation

– Holding Companies – Corporation that buys up stock of competing companies until it owns majority share of all companies (J.P. Morgan and US Steel bought out Carnegie Steel)

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Horizontal and Vertical Consolidation

John D. Rockefeller monopolized over 90% of oil refinery industry

Andrew Carnegie built a company that was worth over $350 million when he sold it in 1901.

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Horizontal and Vertical Consolidation

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4. Why did some people call big business owners “Robber Barons”?

Business owners took home huge profits while paying their workers low wages.

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Bosses of the Senate

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5. How did big business owners justify their wealth?– Social Darwinism – extension of Charles Darwin’s

“survival of the fittest” theory of evolution; if left alone by govt. the best businesses will survive (natural selection); justification for laissez-faire economy.

– “Gospel of Wealth” – Wealth was a sign of God’s favor, those who had it had a Christian duty to share it; give back to society; charity.

– Philanthropy – • Andrew Carnegie gave away $350,000,000 to est. Carnegie

Foundation, libraries, colleges and universities• John D. Rockefeller gave away $500,000,000 to est. Rockefeller

Foundation, University of Chicago, medical institute• Bill Gates – Gates Foundation promotes world health research

and education

– Why do they do it?

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• This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of Wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extrava gance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and after doing so to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his Judgment, Is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community—the man of wealth thus becoming the mere agent and trustee for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wis dom, experience, and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves. . . .– Andrew Carnegie. "Wealth," North American Review,

CXLVIII (June. 1889). 661-662.

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Slide 21

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The Bessemer Process

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The Wizard of Menlo Park

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The Railroad Industry drives economic growth

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Carnegie’s Steel Empire

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Rockefeller’s Standard Oil

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Carnegie Sells his Empire

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Oil Drake

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Biggest Mergers in US History

GTE & Bell AtlanticProctor & Gamble and Gillette

JP Morgan Chase & Bank One

AT&T Broadband / ComcastBank of America & NationsBank

AOL & Time Warner

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• “What is the chief end (goal) of man? – to get rich! In what way? – dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.”

Mark Twain, 1871

• “my country, ‘is of thee, Once land of liberty, Of thee I sing. Land of the millionaire; Farmers with pockets bare; Caused by the cursed snare – The Money Ring.”

Alliance Songster, 1890

• “There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”

Mark Twain

It’s all a matter of perspective!!!

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5. How did big business owners justify their wealth?– Social Darwinism – extension of Charles Darwin’s

“survival of the fittest” theory of evolution; if left alone by govt. the best businesses will survive (natural selection); justification for laissez-faire economy.

– “Gospel of Wealth” – Wealth was a sign of God’s favor, those who had it had a Christian duty to share it; give back to society; charity.

– Philanthropy – • Andrew Carnegie gave away $350,000,000 to est. Carnegie

Foundation, libraries, colleges and universities• John D. Rockefeller gave away $500,000,000 to est. Rockefeller

Foundation, University of Chicago, medical institute• Bill Gates – Gates Foundation promotes world health research

and education

– Why do they do it?

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“This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of Wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and after doing so to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his Judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community—the man of wealth thus becoming the mere agent and trustee for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience, and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves. . . .”– Andrew Carnegie. "Wealth," North American Review,

CXLVIII (June. 1889). 661-662.

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1. According to Carnegie, what is the duty of wealthy people?

“to produce the most beneficial results for the community” 2. What is this called?

3. Who are the “poorer brethren” to whom Carnegie refers?

4. Who might disagree with Carnegie’s philosophy?

5. What if not enough people accept Carnegie’s philosophy?

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• Factory workers, immigrants, farmers, African Americans, women, children had to:

• Stand up for themselves…or

• Get help from other people…or

• get help from the government!• PROGRESSIVES!

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Assess the impact of labor unions on industry and the lives

of workers

Essential Question – How can people without power protect

themselves?

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The Labor Movement1. What is a labor union?

• An organization of wage earners formed to represent the interests of its members against the interests of business owners.

2. Why did workers begin to unionize in the 1800s?• Skilled workers and craftsmen were replaced by

machines and unskilled workers (mechanization and specialization)

• Most common demands: higher wages, shorter work hours, better working conditions

• National Trades Union (1834 -1837)

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3. What strategies were incorporated by labor unions to get their demands met? What was the most effective tactic?

– Collective bargaining – legal negotiation between labor and management• Mediation – Mediator recommends solution• Arbitration – arbitrator mandates settlement (usually

favored management)• Usually ended badly for workers because mediators and

arbitrators were “influenced” by business owners– Strike – work stoppage intended to force

employers to meet demands (most effective tactic)

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4. What would business owners do to prevent or stop strikes?

– employers often preempted strikes with Lockouts – wouldn’t let workers return until they gave in

– Blacklists – employers shared names of pro-union workers and refused to hire anyone on the list

– Yellow-dog contracts – workers had to agree NOT to join a union before they got hired

– Private guards / Pinkertons were used to spy on workers and break up union activities/meetings

– Courts almost always sided with big businesses – issued court injunctions to end strikes order workers back to work

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5. Name the 5 most significant labor unions of the labor movement.

– Knights of Labor – 1869 – open to all; “equal pay for equal work”– American Federation of Labor (AFL) – 1886 joined many craft unions

together; only for skilled workers; successful strikes for higher wages and shorter workweek

– Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) “Wobblies” – 1905 – unskilled workers advocated socialism and radical tactics

– American Railway Union (ARU) – 1894 – skilled AND unskilled workers; successful strike for higher wages

– International Ladies Garment Workers – 1909 – Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire; improved workers conditions

6. Who were the three leading figures in the American labor movement of the late 19th century, and with what organization was each associated?

– Terence Powderly & Uriah Stephens – Knights of Labor– Samuel Gompers – AFL – led several successful strikes– Eugene V. Debs – ARU – strong supporter of Socialism; most famous

labor leader; ran for president multiple times

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7. Why did most Americans fear the Socialist views of Eugene V. Debs and the Wobblies?

• Most workers and labor unions preferred MODERATE methods and changes to improve conditions

• Some Socialists promoted RADICAL changes to capitalist economic system – government control of businesses and equal distribution of wealth

• Socialists and Wobblies (IWW) often advocated violent takeovers of businesses – intentionally turned strikes into riots

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8. What event most caused the general public to turn against the labor movement? Why?

– Haymarket Square Riot – Chicago May 4, 1886• Protest of police brutality at McCormick Harvester plant• Bomb killed 7 police; shots fired; chaos ensued• 8 convicted of “inciting riot”; 4 hung to death

As more strikes ended in violence labor movement lost public sympathy and were perceived as lawless barbarians

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Bad Working Conditions

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Triangle Shirt Waist Factory Fire

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Goal 5.3 - Labor UnionsGROUP POSTER ACTIVITY

 Group Tasks:

– Runner – get materials for group work (listed below), use tape to hang up poster– Designer – draw poster layout and write information on poster– Researcher – Use textbook to find necessary information for poster (pp.453-455) – Artist – Produce illustration(s) that depicts significant events or aspects of the strike

 Required Materials:

– 1 piece chart paper– 2 or 3 Markers– Ruler– Text book– Labor Movement Strikes Chart (handout)

 INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Send runner to front table to get materials for poster.2. Research necessary information for assigned Labor Strike, and write info. on chart.3. Create poster following example on PowerPoint slide (below).4. Produce picture in center of poster to illustrate events of the Strike.5. Create a Picket Sign Slogan for the strike as part of center picture.6. Hang poster on wall/front board for display and return to seats.7. Starting at the poster your group produced, rotate with your group clockwise from poster to

poster to complete your chart with info from other posters.

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Name of Strike

Picture of Strike

DATE

&

PLACE

PARTICIPANTS

ISSUES / DEMANDS

ENDING

&

RESULTS

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Immigration? How many of you moved to Charlotte from another town, state, or country?

Why?From Where?

• 2012 Election Results

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From Where?

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tarantella

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Evaluate the influence of immigration and rapid industrialization on urban life.

1. This immigrant family has just stepped off the boat at Ellis Island in 1890. Where do you think they came from, and why do you think they came to the United States?

Italy (southern and eastern Europe) push – poverty, political unrest, religious persecution pull – “land of opportunity”

2. Why did they only bring a small bundle of luggage and the clothes on their backs?

Poor, strict limits on cargo in steerage

3. Who can they turn to for help in New York City?

Family members, fellow countrymen, factories, political bosses (William “Boss” Tweed) Slide 6

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Evaluate the influence of immigration and rapid industrialization on urban life.

4. What types of jobs will be available to them?lowest paying – factories, maid, shoe-shine boy, paperboy, thief

5. Where would this family likely live in NYC? Slide 7ethnic enclaves, slums, “ghettos”, Tenement Houses

6. How would these immigrants likely be treated by most Americans?Very badly, bad jobs, mistrusted, mistreatedNATIVISM Nativism

• The American Party (1854) “The Know-Nothing” Party

• Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) – 1st immigration restrictions

• Gentlemen’s Agreement (1907) – Japan agreed to limit emigration of unskilled workers

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3. Who can they turn to for help in New York City?

– Family

– Fellow countrymen

– Factory owners

– Political Bosses

Slide 4

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5. Where would this family likely live in NYC?

– Ethnic enclaves (p.469)

– Slums– “ghettos”– Tenement Houses– Dumbbell

Tenements

Slide 5

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3rd Class passengers – “Steerage”

1st Class passengers – The Titanic

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Evaluate the influence of immigration and rapid industrialization on urban life.

Europeans comprised more than 90% of the immigrants to the U.S. during the 19th century, and even as recently as early 1960s, still accounted for more than 50%. Latin America and Asia are now the dominant sources of immigrants to the U.S.

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Evaluate the influence of immigration and rapid industrialization on urban life.

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From 1890 to 1920 the “New Immigrants” came from southern and eastern Europe: Russia, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Germany

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Old Immigrants New Immigrants

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NativismSlide 5

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