By: William Sperr NHD INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Who: Workers in the industrial revolution What: Industrial revolution When: 1760-1840 Where: factories‚ coal mines etc Why: People were forced to work in factories Everyone involved in the industrial revolution had many rights and responsibilities. Factory workers are responsible for producing products in harsh conditions. These responsibilities are very hard for people living in these times. In dangerous conditions‚ the furnaces and sharp equipment frequently
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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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Explain why the American economy expanded so much and so fast between 1890 and 1920. Between 1890 and 1920‚ the American economy expanded hugely at an extremely fast pace. This growth saw‚ by 1900‚ people employed in manufacturing‚ mining‚ construction and services rise from 4 million to 18 million and the USA was producing 30% of the worlds’ manufactured goods. There were many factors that caused this growth such as the development of the railways‚ immigration‚ a large supply of natural resources
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construction → this led to two profound depressions (1873-1879;1893-1897). Steel was needed to make the railroad‚ also land and labour to make it. Wealth was unequally distributed: only 1% of the population was rich and millionaire (Andrew Carnegie‚ John D. Rockefeller). Ulysses S. Grant He was a Northern Civil War hero and the 18th President of the US (1869-1877). His government was so corrupt that the term “Grantism” was coined to refer to the fraud‚ bribery and corruption of the office. He tried
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I.S.119 Nicola Zabiega Class 803 November 1st‚ 2012 BILL GATES OUR MODERN DAY ROBBER BARON You cannot live on past applause’ Ever since the industrial revolution in the 19th century the business men of America have tested to the limits of how far you can go to produce a product at a quick pace‚ and a cheap price. The start of this came many methods and new strategies to help earn the most money possible from the consumers. They worked off on the
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Marginalization is a situation whereby something or somebody is pushed to the edge of a gathering and considered less significant. This is transcendently a social marvel by which a minority or sub-gathering is avoided‚ and their needs or yearnings overlooked. Throughout the years‚ different authors and poets have confronted this social rejection and have been oppressed on matters like sexual orientation‚ race and nationality however have in the long run overcome such catastrophes. Linda D. Addison
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also provided a large‚ reliable work force. The development of the western region probed many to migrate westward. Over the years‚ as railroads developed‚ towns around the train tracks also appeared. Robber Barons‚ such as Andrew Carnegie‚ J.P. Morgan‚ and John D. Rockefeller also bought sections of the railroad and funded their establishments. They prevented the federal government from carrying the burden of paying
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The Effects of Industrialization on U.S. Society from 1865 - 1900 In 1865‚ America was just coming out of the period of Reconstruction following the damaging Civil War‚ and by the early 20th century‚ it was on the brink of the first World War. In between those events‚ the Second Industrial Revolution‚ also known as the Technological Revolution‚ occurred. It was marked by advancements in mechanization that made manufacturing more effective‚ and in turn made industrialization more widespread. This
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a time when the rich were getting richer and controlling everything in the country‚ and the poor were getting poorer as they worked for the rich and got little to nothing out of it. The richest of the rich were the titans‚ men called Carnegie‚ Vanderbilt‚ Rockefeller‚ and Ford. They fought each other for the prize of being the richest man in America. They didn’t care who they
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the 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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