A New Industrial Age Chapter 6 Review

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A New Industrial AgeChapter 6 Review

• Whats good for business is good for America
  coolidge

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The Expansion of Industry

• In 60 years U.S. becomes the leading industrial
  power house in the world
• 1. natural resources
• 2. government support of business
• 3. growing urban population cheap
  
• labor and people to buy new
  goods

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Resources Inventions

• Edwin Drake makes drilling Oil practical
• Henry Bessemer Bessemer Process turns iron
  into steel
• Thomas Edison 1876 perfects the light bulb and
  creates a system to distribute power
• Christopher Sholes 1867 invents the typewriter.
• Alexander Graham Bell 1876 invents the
  telephone.

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RAILROADS
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Promontory Point, UT(May 10, 1869)
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Railroad Construction
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Chinese Immigrants

• Asians received the worst pay from railroad
  companies.
• PAY
• Whites 10 hour day 40 -60 a month with
• free meals
• Asians dawn to dusk 35 a month and no free
• food.
• Many were buried in avalanches or found frozen to
  death as they worked to build our railroads.

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Pullman

• 1880 builds a factory for manufacturing sleeper
  cars
• Pullman provided housing for his workers
• 1. employees had clean brick houses
• 2. one window in every room
• 3. doctors, shops and an athletic
  field
• were also built for the workers.

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Downside to Pullman

• Town under strict control of the company
• Residence could not hang out on front porches or
  drink alcohol.
• Workers strike over rent in 1894

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Abuses

• Credit Mobiliers
• Railroad abuses
• Sweatshops pay children .27cents for 14 hour day
• Women earn 267 a year
• Men earn 498 a year
• Andrew Carnegie made 23 million and paid no
  income taxes!
• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

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Regulations

• Granger Laws Munn v. Illinois- gave states the
  right to regulate railroads.
• Interstate Commerce Act- Federal government can
  regulate activities of the railroads
• Labor Unions- emerge from unsafe working
  conditions, long hours, no vacation or sick time.