The Growth and Development of Industry in America

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The Growth and Development of Industry in America
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Ripe for industry

• Abundant raw materials
• Large labor supply
• Technological advances
• Growing number of entrepreneurs
• Federal assistance
• Expanding domestic and international markets

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Visionaries and New Inventions

• Thomas Edison 1847-1931

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Visionaries and New Inventions

• Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922

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New Steel Production Techniques

• Pittsburgh
• Rise of the
• Petroleum Industry

Pioneer Oil Run, 1865
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Andrew Carnegie

• Rags to Riches
• U.S. Steel
• The Gospel of Wealth

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Other Visionaries The Airplane

• Wilbur and Orville Wright

The Wright Brothers (Library of Congress)
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Other Visionaries The Automobile

• Gottfried Daimler
• Henry Ford

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Henry FordYou can paint it any color, so long
as its black
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Transportation Advances

• Continued growth of the railroad
• Railroad tycoons
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Andrew Carnegie
• Jay Gould
• Corporations
• Limited liability
• Consolidated Organizations
• Horizontal integration
• Vertical integration
• Monopolies
• Rockefeller
• Trusts
• Ida Tarbell
• J.P. Morgan

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Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Biltmore Estate
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Jay Gould Robber Baron
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John D. RockefellerThe growth of a large
business is merely survival of the fittest
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Ida Tarbell
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J.P. Morgan
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J.P. Morganon life

• You can't pick cherries with your back to the
  tree.
• Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of
  a yacht can't afford one.
• A man always has two reasons for doing anything
  -- a good reason and the real reason.

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Social Darwanism vs. Philanthropy

• Survival of the fittest
• The Gospel of Wealth
• Russell Conwell
• Horatio Alger
• Socialist Labor Party
• Henry George
• Edward Bellamy

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Edward Bellamy
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Business and the Courts
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The Republican Party

• Stalwarts
• Roscoe Conkling
• Half-Breeds
• James Blaine
• Mugwumps
• James A. Garfield (1881)
• Charles Julius Guiteau
• Chester A. Arthur ( 1881-1885)
• Pendleton Act
• Tariff Act of 1883

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James A. Garfield (1881) R
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Chester Arthur (1881-1885) R
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The Democrats

• Grover Cleveland (1885-1889) (1893-1897)

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Grover Cleveland (1885-1889) (1893-1897) D
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Political Cartoon
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Politics of the Day

• The Populists
• Free Silver
• The Protective Tariff
• The Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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Sherman Anti-trust Cartoon
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The Labor Movement

• Economic depression
• 5 Types of industrial work
• Common labor
• Skilled labor
• Factory labor
• Sweatshop Labor
• Mining

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Workingmans Plight

• Immigrant Workers
• Divisions within the ranks
• Ethnic rivalry
• Labor Contract Law
• Women children

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Thousands of immigrants arrived through Ellis
Island daily
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Child Labor
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Triangle Shirtwaist Company
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Unable to use fire escapes, workers jumped to
their deaths
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146 Workers died that day
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Unionization

• Molly Maguires
• Knights of Labor
• AFL

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A Coffin Notice for the Molly Maguires
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Labor Strikes

• The Great Railroad Strike
• Coxeys Army
• Haymarket Square
• Homestead Strike
• Pullman Strike

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Haymarket Square 1890
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Homestead Strike
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Homestead Quarters of the Military
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Putting down the strikers
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George Pullman Striking workers
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Eugene Debs 1855-1926