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