Many important factors helped to promote America’s huge industrial growth during the period from 1860 to 1900. Before the blossom of this industrialization‚ the United States consisted of mostly farms and small towns. The development of factories and urban cities soon changed all of this. The railroad system expanded and eventually turned into a goldmine for commerce in the United States. Machinery started to decrease the amount of animal labor used‚ which allowed the consistency and production of
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this time. Big companies would force workers to work long days for very little pay. Many immigrants did not know this before going to work for these companies. This would make the company’s rich‚ but the workers were poor. This practice was used by Carnegie. He would work his workers 12 hours a day. He only gave his workers a day off once a year‚ on July 4th. A lot
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the end‚ he owned over 40% of trail lines‚ symbolizing his power. A forthcoming competitor‚ John D. Rockefeller‚ was making his name in oil refinery. His Standard Oil knocked Vanderbilt off his title as the richest man. This ruthless corporation supplied tons of homes with kerosene lighting‚ built 40‚000 miles of oil pipelines‚ and stunned top competitors. One of whom was Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie‚ investing everything‚ gains millions by producing steel. This introduced a new way to build homes
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interest rates and restricted the availability of credit • Jay Gould‚ Collis P. Huntington‚ James J. Hill • Interstate Commerce Act and Interstate Commerce Commission‚ 1887 • J. Pierpont Morgan • Andrew Carnegie • John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil • Sherman Anti-Trust Act‚ 1890 • United States v. E. C. Knight Co.‚ 1895 • Thomas A. Edison • Henry W. Grady and the "New South Creed" • William H. Sylvis and the National Labor Union • Terence V. Powderly
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in great length and detail about Huey Long and Father Coughlin‚ who were extremely influential politicians‚ and their opposition to the new society of big business and high technology. They felt that the owners of large companies such as Rockefeller‚ Carnegie and Pullman were to blame for the financial woes of the United States. Long and Coughlin were successful in taking their arguments and beliefs to the American people in the 1930’s. Huey Long was an energetic‚ passionate young man at a very
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goods by railroads‚ and workers placed under bad conditions. Industrial giants were people who wanted to become rich. Most of them started off poor with little money if not‚ no money at all. One industrial giant who started off poor was Andrew Carnegie who hired many employees‚ which decreased unemployment
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exemplified by David A. Wells‚ “...the people who work in the modern factory are‚ as a rule‚ taught to do one thing—to perform one‚ and generally a simple operation; and when there is no more of that kind of work to 1 George Rice‚ “How I Was Ruined by Rockefeller‚” New York World‚ October 16‚ 1898. do‚ they are in a measure helpless.”2 Furthermore‚ as Wells
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Tammany Hall of the late 19th century was -a democratic political machine that controlled New York City politics Which of the following is most related to the oil industry? -John D. Rockefeller The Credit Mobilier scandal involved what business? -Railroad Which author is credited with coining the term Gilded Age? -Mark Twain The Pendleton Act was in response to the -assassination of President Garfield In the last third of the nineteenth century‚ steel became a more widely used material
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education but not in the contained walls. Gatto says “Throughout most of the American history‚ kids generally didn’t go to high school‚ yet the unschooled rose to be admirals‚ like Farragut; inventors‚ like Edison; captains of industry‚ like Carnegie and Rockefeller; writers‚ like Melville and Twain and Conrad; and even scholars‚ like Margaret Mead”. I on the other hand half disagree with him. I believe we do need some sort of routine. Obviously these men did not go through a 20th century high school
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to achieve that purpose. The Flexner Report was embraced as the definition of the academic model that was to characterize American medical education up to the present. Its success was importantly assured by the huge financial gifts of the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations. The powerful stimulus of philanthropy money also affected the fashion in which medical
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