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Development of Industrial America

Explore the development of industrial America with its triumphs in technology and industry, causes such as natural resources and immigration, impact on urbanization and production. Learn about big business figures like Carnegie and Rockefeller, labor movements, clashes between workers and business, and the transformation of society. Dive into the South and West's transformation, cultures clashing in the West, challenges of the Gilded Age, and the rise of populism.

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Development of Industrial America

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  1. Development of Industrial America

  2. Triumph of Industry

  3. Rise of Technology and Industry • Causes • Natural Resources • Immigrants • Government policies • Cultural Climate • Impact • urbanization • better production • transportation • communication

  4. Big Business • Carnegie • Rockefeller • Robber Barons or Captains of Industry • New Business Practices • Monopolies • vertical integration • horizontal integration • Trusts • Social Darwinism • Gospel of Wealth

  5. Workers Organize • Working conditions • women and children • Unions • Knights of Labor • American Federation of Labor • Socialism

  6. The Clash of Workers and Business • Haymarket Riot • Homestead Strike • Pullman Strike

  7. Immigration and Urbanization

  8. New Immigrants • Old versus New • Location • Religion • Language • Why they came (Push/Pull Factors) • Persecution • Opportunity

  9. The Experience • The Journey • Ellis Island • Angel Island • Fraternal Organizations • Effect on American Culture

  10. Urbanization

  11. Urbanization • Causes • immigration and migration • new technologies • Suburbs and Ghettos • Problems • overcrowding • sanitation • crime

  12. Changing Society • Creation of a Middle Class • Education • Arts and Entertainment • Social Gospel Movement

  13. South and West Transform

  14. The New South • Agriculture to Industrial • Problems • natural • sharecropping • African Americans

  15. Cultures Clash in the West • Government Policies • Problems on the Plains • Battle of Little Big Horn • Nez Perce • A Century of Dishonor • The Dawes Act and Assimilation • The Ghost Dance

  16. The New West • Eureka! • The Transcontinental Railroad • Farmers and Ranchers • The Cowboy

  17. Issues of the Gilded Age

  18. Equality? • African American • Segregation • Jim Crow Laws • Plessy v Ferguson • Mexican Americans • Chinese Americans • Chinese Exclusion Act • Women

  19. Political Challenges • Corruption • Pendleton Civil Service Act • Tariffs • Gold Standard

  20. Farmers and Populism • Life of a farmer • Problems • Farmers Unite • The Grange • Farmer’s Alliance • Populist Party • Subtreasury Plan

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