The Growing U.S. in the late 1800 s/early 1900 s. Industrial Revolution & the Gilded Age

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1 The Growing U.S. in the late 1800 s/early 1900 s Industrial Revolution & the Gilded Age

2 Industrial Advantages of the U.S. 1. Growing labor supply (immigrants & children) 2. An abundance of natural resources (iron, oil, electricity) 3. Free enterprise business that is free from govt. involvement

3 2 nd Industrial Revolution Laissez-faire capitalism little govt. regulation of the economy Entrepreneurs people who organize their own business Labor was mostly immigrants (paid cheap) or poor children Because of this, the U.S. became the industrial leader in the world during the 1890 s

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5 Monopolies Total control of a business or product (just like the game) consolidating corporations to control the market for a product attempting to destroy the competition controlling the majority of the production & distribution of a product robber barons polarization of wealth; businessman who dominated their respective industries Andrew Carnegie STEEL John D. Rockefeller OIL Sherman Antitrust Act outlawed monopolies. But it was difficult to enforce

6 Andrew Carnegie John D. Rockefeller

7 Economic Ideologies *Capitalism private business own & operate most industries; competition determines cost of goods as well as workers pay Government favored business in most disputes with its labor force Social Darwinism societies evolve over time by adapting to their environment; govt. regulation threatened the natural economic order (survival of the fittest)

8 Growth of Cities Increase in immigrants Port of entry = Ellis Island, NY & Angel Island, CA Most were Roman Catholic Led to racial & ethnic problems (ex. Wops, Pollocks) Movement from rural to urban life (more people living in the city) Jobs available in the cities Led to overcrowding & lack of city services sanitation problems

9 Immigrants at Ellis Island

10 Settlement Houses Neighborhood centers in poor areas staffed by professionals and volunteers who offered education, recreation, and social activities Jane Addams founded the most famous settlement house, called Hull House in Chicago. Hull House focused on the needs of families and immigrants. Teaching citizenship and English.

11 Hull House Jane Addams - activist

12 Discrimination & Civil Rights Chinese Exclusion Act U.S. fed. law restricting Chinese for 10 years & any Chinese American could not obtain U.S. citizenship; reaction to open immigration Plessy vs. Ferguson Plessy (1/18 th black) was thrown off railway car & arrested for violating Separate Car Act of Louisiana U.S. Supreme Court case upholding racial segregation; separate but equal practiced until 1954

13 Fighting for Civil Rights Booker T. Washington 1 st Civil Rights leader (original MLK); author believed in cooperation w/ whites instead of confrontation his work greatly helped lay the foundation for the 1960 s Civil Rights Movement W.E.B. DuBois publisher & author of equality writings; encouraged Harlem Renaissance; director of NAACP blacks should challenge and question whites, seek higher education, & assimilate into American culture ; they should know when to act white and/or black Marcus Garvey founder of Universal Negro Improvement Association (uniting all of Africa) Africans redeem Africa from European foreigners & return home

14 The New Workplace Machines replaced skilled workers mass production large amounts of products being made Immigrants taking jobs Labor Unions grew They increase workers power (power in numbers) Used as a bargaining tool against employer to get what workers want (collective bargaining) Taft-Hartley Act fed. law passed that monitors activities & powers of labor unions

15 Labor Unions Knights of Labor - Open to everyone men, women, skilled & unskilled workers; one big union American Federation of Labor they Individualized Unions (ex. Mineworkers, Steelworkers); open to only skilled workers

16 Labor Union Rallies & Strikes The Bisbee Deportation in AZ; the Industrial Workers of the World demanded change in the copper mines, the Bisbee mining corp. refused; violence erupted 2 men were killed, others beaten - the IWW members were deported to NM; the Bisbee company was never found guilty for their injustice The Haymarket Riot 1000s of union members in Chicago went on strike; 2 strikers were killed by police; workers protested; turned violent 8 officers killed; officers killed several people; another example of unfair labor laws

17 Labor Dispute & Strikes Homestead Strike Pennsylvania (1892); between Amalgamated Assoc. of Iron & Steel Workers (AA) the whole town & Carnegie Steel Co. AA wanted to prevent management from forcing workers to agree not to become a member of a union got violent Union VICTORY!!! Pullman Strike nationwide conflict between unions & RRs (1894); violence erupted in Illinois with Pullman Palace Car Company & American Railway Union President Cleveland ordered fed. troops to Chicago to end strike (he was not reelected); RRs won!

18 Populist Party (The People s Party) Supported free coinage of silver, labor reform, immigration restrictions, & govt. ownership of RR & the telegraph/telephone system Most populists were farmers and industrial workers (the common people) that were losing jobs and $$$ to immigrants & big business William Jennings Bryan a democrat & populist presidential candidate in He lost. This election marked the end of the populist movement.

19 Progressive Reforms all laws were designed to give the people greater control over their state legislatures & state officials Amendments: 16 th income tax 17 th direct election of senators 18 th prohibition 19 th women s right to vote Election reforms: Recall if enough voters sign a petition, the people can remove the official Initiative voters ability to propose new laws by petition Referendum voters approve or disapprove laws already being practiced

20 Corruption Machine Bosses bought voter support with jobs & favors reached out to immigrants by finding jobs attaining citizenship, housing, etc. in return, expected their vote used illegal tactics to maintain control (bought votes) demanded bribes & pay offs for jobs Tammany Hall, a.k.a Tweed Ring most notorious political machine stole millions of tax dollars Spoils System

21 muckrakers Progressivism reformers who wanted to address city life & corruption in order to achieve order & stability Journalists who practiced progressivism named, muckrakers bc they raked up the muck of society & exposed corrution & illegal business practices Ida Tarbell wrote about unfair business practices of the Standard Oil Co.; book: History of Standard Oil Company Jacob Riis wrote about slum life & business corruption; book: How the Other Half Lives Upton Sinclair wrote about unsanitary working conditions; book: The Jungle Frank Norris discussed how railroads were a monopoly Lincoln Steffens exposed corruption in city govt.

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24 Theodore Roosevelt Progressive President Trustbuster broke up trusts (a group of companies under a single board of director that make a lot of $$$, there s no competition) Land conservation doubled the number of national and state parks