The Growing U.S. in the late 1800’s/early 1900’s Industrial Revolution & the Gilded Age.
America’s Gilded Age · •America produced 1/3 of the world’s industrial output by 1913 •½...
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America’s Gilded Age
1870 - 1890
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The Second Industrial Revolution
Part I
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Causes of Rapid Industrialization
• Abundant Natural Resources
• Unskilled & semi-skilled labor in abundance
• Market growing as US population increased
• Abundant Capital• New, talented group of
businessmen [entrepreneurs] and advisors
• Government willing to help at all levels to stimulate economic growth
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The Industrial Economy
• America produced 1/3 of the world’s industrial output by 1913
• ½ of industrial workers labored in plants with more than 250 employees
• By 1880 a majority of American workers engaged in non-farming jobs
• By 1890 2/3 of Americans worked for wages
• The heartland of the second industrial revolution was the Great Lakes region
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Urban Growth 1870 - 1900
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Railroads
• Fueled the growing US economy
– First big business in the US
– A magnet for financial investment
– The key to opening the West
– Aided the development of other industries
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Railroad Construction
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“The Big Four” Railroad Magnates
Charles Crocker
Mark Hopkins Leland Stanford
Collis Huntington
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The First Transcontinental Railroad
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Promontory Point, UT(May 10, 1869)
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The National Market
• Spread of National Brands
• Growth of National Chains
• National Mail Order Firms
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Technological Innovations
• Atlantic cable (1866)• Typewriter (1867)• Bessemer and open hearth
process• Refrigerated cars• Thomas A. Edison - Light
bulb, phonograph (1877), motion picture camera
• Handheld camera • Alexander G. Bell -
Telephone (1876)• George Westinghouse -
Alternating current
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Westinghouse Lamp Ad
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Competition and Consolidation
• 1873 to 1897 the Great Depression
• Pools
• Trusts
• Companies went out of business or were gobbled up by others
• Between 1897 and 1904 4,000 firms were consolidated into larger corporations
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U.S. Corporate Mergers
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Andrew Carnegie
• In 1873 Carnegie set out to establish a vertically integrated steel company
• By 1890 he dominated the steel industry
• Accumulated a fortune with hundreds of millions of dollars
• Distributed much of his wealth to various philanthropies, especially the creation of public libraries
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John D. Rockefeller
• Drove out rival firms, through cutthroat competition, arranging secret deals with railroads, fixing prices and production quotas
• Started out through horizontal expansion
• Like Carnegie he also expanded vertically establishing a monopoly
• By 1880 Standard Oil Company controlled 90 percent of the nation’s oil industry
• Gave much of his fortune away, establishing foundations to promote education and medical research
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New Type of Business Entities
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Captains of Industry or Robber Barons?
• As the rich became wealthier, and the poor more so, people began to question and some even attacked leading industrialists calling them Robber Barons, while others maintained that they were Captains of Industry
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Increasing Wealth or Poverty• By 1890 the richest 1
percent of Americans received the same total income as the bottom half of the population and owned more property than the rest of America
• Thorstein Verblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) upper class culture focused on “conscious consumption”
• Much of the working class lived in desperate conditions
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Jacob Riis
How the Other
Half Lives
(1890)
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“Dumbell” Tenement, NYC
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“Dumbell” Tenement
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Tenement Slum Living
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Struggling Immigrant Families