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1877-1900 THE GILDED AGE
• EXPANSION WEST/GROWTH OF RR/CHINES LABOR
• REMOVAL OF LAST NATIVE AMERICANS• INDUSTRIALIZATION/TRUSTS/MONOPOLIES,
BIG BUSINESS• LABOR UNIONS/STRIKES• IMMIGRATION• SEGREGATION/DISCRIMINATION
BIG BUSINESS, INNOVATIONS, AND
UNIONS/STRIKES
MR. GOOCH
THE PACIFIC RAILWAY ACT
• IT GRANTED FEDERAL LAND TO SELL AS INCENTIVE FOR RR TO LAY TRACK WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
• THEY SHIPPED GOODS FOR THE GOVERNMENT AT A DISCOUNT.
• PROMONTORY POINT, UTAH
• CHINESE WORKERS• CHINESE EXCLUSION
ACT.
CHINESE WORKERS
THE TIME OF THE ROBBER BARON
• WEALTHY BUSINESSMEN WHOSE GOAL WAS TO ELIMINATE COMPETITION AND CREATE A MONOPOLY, OR TOTAL CONTROL OF AN INDUSTRY
THE GROWTH OF RR INCREASED MIGRATIONS WEST, MADE TRAVEL EASIER, AND ALLOWED
GOODS, CATTLE, AND FARM PRODUCTS TO BE SHIPPED ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
• JAY GOULD• RR ROBBER
BARON WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT
• RR ROBBER BARON THAT CONTROLLED EVERYTHING EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
BIG BUSINESS EMERGES
• BY THE LATE 1800’S, BIG BUSINESS EMERGES IN THE U.S. CORPORATIONS AND TRUSTS ARE FORMED AND ALLOWS A HANDFUL OF ROBBER BARONS TO GAIN CONTROL OF MANY OF AMERICA’S MAJOR INDUSTRIES.
• THESE INCLUDE RR, STEEL, OIL, SUGAR, AND MEAT INDUSTRIES. BECAUSE OF THIS CONGRESS GET INVOLVED AND TRIES TO REGULATE BIG BUSINESS SO CONSUMERS ARE NOT HURT.
BIG BUSINESS
• CORPORATION:• A BUSINESS
STRUCTURE WHERE INDIVIDUALS INVEST IN A BUSINESS BY PURCHASING PARTS IN IT CALLED SHARES.
• OIL:• ITS ABILITY TO
LUBRICATE THE MOVING PARTS OF MACHINES.
TRUSTS
• Separate companies placed under a single managing board – Board of trustees
• This eliminates competition, and can be harmful to consumers.
THE FIRST TRUST
• JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER• STANDARD OIL COMPANY• HE CONTROLLED ALL ASPECTS OF
THE OIL INDUSTRY---FROM THE FORESTS THAT PRODUCED THE WOOL FOR THE OIL BARRELLS, TO THE PIPELINES THE OIL FLOWED
STEEL MONOPOLY
• ANDREW CARNEGIE• STEEL WAS
LIGHTER, STRONGER, LESS EXPENSIVE, AND DID NOT RUST EASILY.
LAWS THAT TRIED TO REGULATE BIG BUSINESS
• INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT:
• LAW THAT CALLED FOR “REASONABLE AND JUST” SHIPPING RATES.
• SHERMAN ANTI-TRUST ACT:
• LAW INTENDED TO PROTECT THE CONSUMER AGAINST TRUSTS AND MONOPOLIES.
INVENTORS AND THEIR INVENTIONS
• Inventors played a key role in both the growth of industrialization and making life easier/products cheaper.
• WHO ARE SOME OF THE INVENTORS WE HAVE ALREADY STUDIED?
INVENTORS/INVENTIONS
• THOMAS EDISON:• INCANDESCENT
LIGHT BULB• PHONOGRAPH• KENETESCOPE
INVENTORS/INVENTIONS
• ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:
• TELEPHONE
• GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE:
• ALTERNATING CURRENT….SAFER ELECTRICITY.
• MADE IT EASIER FOR INDUTRIES TO LOCATE FARTHER FROM WATER SOURCES, CAUSING MORE GROWTH OF CITIES.
INVENTORS/INVENTIONS
• EDWIN L. DRAKE:• STEAM-POWERED OIL DRILL• CHRISTOPHER SHOLES:• TYPEWRITER• THADEUS LOWE:• ICE MACHINE