APUSH - Cornwell FEB 16-24‚ 2011 1. INDUSTRIAL AMERICA in the LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY • Corporate consolidation of industry • Effects of technological development on the worker and workplace • Labor and unions • National politics and influence of corporate power • Migration and immigration: changing face of the nation • Proponents and opponents of the new order (e.g. “Social Darwinism and Social Gospel”) AMSCO pp. 333-347 (CH 17) EV pp. 543-573 (CH 18) ESSENTIAL
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Gilded Age‚ the Progressive Era was a time the United States could establish the principles of the country and begin to build what America is today‚. With large monopolies running the nation’s economy‚ such as those run by J.P. Morgan‚ Carnegie‚ Rockefeller‚ and Vanderbilt‚ many people sought Reformation and wanted to fix the problems of the country. The reformers‚ or Progressives‚ wanted to fix the corruption in the government‚ trusts‚ poor living and working conditions‚ and morals in the country
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like J.P. Morgan‚ Andrew Carnegie‚ John D. Rockefeller. J.P. Morgan was a banker and a American Financier‚ who at the turn of the century‚ was one of the wealthiest men in America. J. P. Morgan backed the Edison Electric Illuminating Company in 1822 which began the great electric utility industry. Morgan had good links with London financial world and was able to arrange the capital for growing industrial corporations in the United States with money from British bankers. In 1891 Morgan arranged the
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This episode in the men who built america spoke mainly of some of the richest people in the world’s history Carnegie‚ Rockefeller‚ Morgan‚ and Ford all americans and all in the same relative time period. It covers what each of these remarkable individuals did that affected america from ford’s assembly line to the buying of the presidency. But it did not just cover what effects their actions had on america it covered their motivations and what may have inspired them to be so successful. All of them
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Jack in thr Bean Stalk US History 6B January 29‚ 2013 The Gilded Age (1877-1900) The phrase "America’s Gilded Age" typically brings to mind the financial exploits and dazzling wealth of the "robber barons": Vanderbilt‚ Rockefeller‚ Morgan‚ Carnegie‚ and others. The fortunes they made have left us with lasting monuments that‚ in most of our minds‚ exemplify the era: mansions in Newport‚ treasure-filled libraries and museums in Manhattan. The truth however‚ shows a side that was anything but glamorous
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be a captain or at least be of assistance to their families and get that American Dream Carnegie‚ Rockefeller‚ J.P. Morgan‚ and Vanderbilt had. Andrew Carnegie’s‚ Gospel of Wealth‚ in 1889 concluded that it would be immoral for the men to hoard riches to themselves Furthermore recalling that‚ “his judgement‚ is best calculated to produced the most beneficial results for the community” (Document C). Carnegie was capable of placing his money where his mouth was and donated a total of $350 million
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The three men‚ John D. Rockefeller‚ Andrew Carnegie‚ and J.P. Morgan‚ were seen as robber barons BUT they were also seen as industrial statesmen. Robber baron was a term given to the rich who would pretty much do anything for money whether that meant the jeopardy of workers’ lives and crooked business practices. John D. Rockefeller started a standard oil company and was the first American billionaire. John R. was considered a robber baron mainly because he used his insight of business to ruthlessly
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such as Vanderbilt‚ Rockefeller‚ and others of the like‚ power became synonymous with wealth. One’s buying power established his/her position in society. Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth advance the notion that Gilded Age America’s obsession with upward mobility and chasing the American Dream ultimately corrupts
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DBQ The period of the late 1800s and early 1900s was a period during one of the biggest leaps in the industrial movement of America. The industrial revolution’s leaders‚ including Andrew Carnegie‚ John D. Rockefeller‚ and more‚ provided the nation with much needed inventions and transportation‚ thousands of job opportunities‚ and one of the biggest waves of philanthropy the nation has ever seen. The industrial revolution was definitely a period dominated by ’captains of industry.’ ’New and
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The Industrialization of American began in the early 1800’a when Samuel Slater brought new manufacturing technologies from Britain to the U.S. and founded the first U.S. Cotton Mill in Massachusetts. However‚ the period following the civil war changed the industry immensely‚ especially due to the creativity of American Inventors. Innovations in transportation such as the rail road‚ the size of the American market due to the use of an abundance of raw materials‚ and incredibly versatile inventors
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