Goal 5 - Becoming and Industrial Society
Becoming an Industrial Society (1877-1900) - The learner will describe innovations in technology and business practices and assess their impact on economic, political, and social life in America.
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Objective 5.01
Objective 5.02
Objective 5.03
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Objective 5.04
5.01 Evaluate the influence of immigration and rapid industrialization on urban life. 5.02 Explain how business and industrial leaders accumulated wealth and wielded political and economic power. 5.03 Assess the impact of labor unions on industry and the lives of workers. 5.04 Describe the changing role of government in economic and political affairs.
- Results of Industrialization � Rise of immigration * Government policy * Ethnic neighborhoods � Urbanization * Housing * Sanitation * Transportation - New forms of leisure
* Elevator * Electric trolleys * Jacob Riis * Ellis Island * Culture shock * Settlement houses * Jane Addams * Dumbbell tenements * Chinese Exclusion Act * Telephone * Alexander Graham Bell * Thomas Edison * Typewriter * Sweatshops * Amusement parks * Spectator sports * �New� immigrants vs. �Old� immigrants * Frederick Olmstead * Cultural pluralism * Urbanization * Nativism * Melting pot
-Emergence of new industries: * Railroads * Steel * Oil - Changes in the ways businesses formed and consolidated power - Influence of business leaders as �captains of industry� or as �robber barons� - Relationship of big business to the government - Influence of Darwinism, Social Darwinism and the Gospel of Wealth
* Bessemer Process * Andrew Carnegie * John Rockefeller * J. P. Morgan * Vanderbilt family * Edwin Drake * Standard Oil Company * U. S. Steel * George Westinghouse * Gospel of Wealth * Horatio Alger * Social Darwinism * Trust * Monopoly * Gilded Age * Vertical/Horizontal Integration * Interlocking Directorate * Herbert Spencer
- Formation of labor unions - Types of unions - Tactics used by labor unions - Opposition to labor unions
* Working conditions * Wages * Child labor * Craft unions * Trade unions * Knights of Labor * Haymarket Riot * American Federation of Labor * Samuel Gompers * Eugene Debs * Strike * Negotiation * Mediation * Lockout * Scabs * Blacklist * Injunction * Collective bargaining * Arbitration * Yellow-dog contract * Closed shop * Sherman Antitrust Act * The Great Strike (1877) * Pullman Strike * Homestead Strike
- Impact of law and court decisions - �Laissez-Faire� government policies - Operation of political machines - Patronage vs. the Civil Service system - Impact of corruption and scandal in the government - The Election of 1896
* Sherman Anti-Trust Act * Pendleton Act * Political machines * Boss Tweed * Tammany Hall * Thomas Nast * Credit Mobilier scandal * Graft * Whiskey Ring scandal * Populism * Secret ballot (Australian) * Initiative * Referendum * Recall * Mugwumps * U.S. v. E.C. Knight, Co. 1895