Chapter 11
Words
Industrialization Corporations Immigration Urbanization Confusion and corruption: The Gilded Age |
Gestures
Big pounding hammers Arms wide out Statue of Liberty Fingers up to sky as skyscrapers Look confused, pocket $ on sly Smile sweetly, then run fingers over in disgust |
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Notes
Time Frame: 1860s --> 1890s --> 1900
Large-scale industrial growth:
Steel/Carnegie, Oil/Rockefeller and Standard Oil, Banking/J.P. Morgan
Railroads (transcontinental 1869à railroad BOOM)
Railroad cars/George Pullman, meatpacking and shipping/Swift & Armour, air brakes/George Westinghouse
COAL (#1 fossil fuel) not just one baron, but many.
Expanding businesses using corporations/stockholders, limited liability.
Business Consolidation -- > Monopolies --> Trusts
Rise of Middle class
“Gospel of Wealth” and Social Darwinism
“Laissez faire” (let alone) little or no government regulation
Large waves of immigration
Italians, E. European Jews, Slavs, Chinese (though excluded too)
Ellis Island/Statue of Liberty
Some west to farms, most to cities --> Urbanization
Large-scale growth of cities (more Americans in cities than country)
Immigrants and country migrants
Horse cars --> trolley, electricity, telephones
Skyscrapers: structural steel and elevators (safe)
Tenements and slums, city/state/national government corruption
Bosses and the spoils system
Later reforms/Civil Service
Jane Addams- Hull House Jacob Riis- Photographer (took pics of child labor)
Time Frame: 1860s --> 1890s --> 1900
Large-scale industrial growth:
Steel/Carnegie, Oil/Rockefeller and Standard Oil, Banking/J.P. Morgan
Railroads (transcontinental 1869à railroad BOOM)
Railroad cars/George Pullman, meatpacking and shipping/Swift & Armour, air brakes/George Westinghouse
COAL (#1 fossil fuel) not just one baron, but many.
Expanding businesses using corporations/stockholders, limited liability.
Business Consolidation -- > Monopolies --> Trusts
Rise of Middle class
“Gospel of Wealth” and Social Darwinism
“Laissez faire” (let alone) little or no government regulation
Large waves of immigration
Italians, E. European Jews, Slavs, Chinese (though excluded too)
Ellis Island/Statue of Liberty
Some west to farms, most to cities --> Urbanization
Large-scale growth of cities (more Americans in cities than country)
Immigrants and country migrants
Horse cars --> trolley, electricity, telephones
Skyscrapers: structural steel and elevators (safe)
Tenements and slums, city/state/national government corruption
Bosses and the spoils system
Later reforms/Civil Service
Jane Addams- Hull House Jacob Riis- Photographer (took pics of child labor)