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Chapter 14
A New Industrial Age
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History
11th Grade
09/27/2012

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Edwin L. Drake
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In 1859 He used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, PA.
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Bessemer process
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 Developed by Henry Bessemer, a British inventor, and William Kelly, American iron maker created this process. It was an efficient & cheap manufacturing process.
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Thomas Alva Edison
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Pioneer on new industrial frontier when he established the world's first research lab in Menlo Park. He is the wizard of Menlo Park and he perfected the lightbulb patented in 1880.
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Christopher Sholes
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Invented typewriter in 1867
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Alexander Bell
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Unveiled the telephone with Thomas Watson in 1876
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Transcontinental Railroad
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Connected Atlantic Coast to Pacific by railroad.
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George Pullman
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built factory for manufacturing railroad carts and sleepers on the Illinois prairie.
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Crèdit Mobilier
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construction company formed in 1864 the owners fraudulently skimmed off railroad profits for themselves.
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Munn v. Illinios
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State won the right to regulate the rr's for the right to regulate the rr's for benefit of farmers and consumers.
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Interstate Commerce Act
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1887 act established right of fed. gov. to supervise rr's activities & established a 5 member icc.
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Andrew carnegie
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Rags to riches. Worked his way up through a stock. He managed his money. He had his own steel company, tried to buy out competition and his suppliers.
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Vertical Integration
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When you buy out your suppliers coal fields and iron mines. etc
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Horizontal Integration
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when companies producing similar products merge.
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Social Darwinism
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Predeterminition

If I can do it you can do it

Corporate lawyers

Personal Choice

The law

 

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John D. Rockefeller
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Joined with competing companies in trust agreements. Turned their trust to a group of trustees.
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries.
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Samuel Gompers
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led the Cigar Makers' International Union to join with other craft unions in 1886.
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American Federation of Labor
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Gompers was persident. focused on bargaining or negotiation between reps of labor and management.
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Eugene V. Debs
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attempted to form an industrial union the american railway union. most new union members were unskilled.
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Industrial Workers of The world
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1905 radical unionists and socialists from Chicago. known as wobblies. headed by william big bill haywood. never topped 100k major strike victory was in 1912.
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Marry Harris Jones
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Supported great strike of 1877 raised awarness of cruelties of child labor by doing a march with children that had terrible injuries
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Collective Bargaining
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negotiation between representatives of labor and management to reach written agreements on wages hours and working.
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Haymarket Square Bombing
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3k gathered at chicago haymarket square to protest police brutality. someone threw a bomb into the police line and the police shot at the workers.
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knights of labor
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open to all workers regardless of skill race wanted 8 hour work day and equal pay for equal work
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National Labor Union
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formed in 1866bby iron worker william h sylvis grew to 640k
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Interlocking Directorates
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Westing house
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he made vacuum-operated safety brakes.
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