constructed taller and taller. The rise of big businesses like the Standard Oil Trust was a benefit of industrialization. Rockefeller applied the Latest Technology and efficient practices to his company. He extorted rebates from railroad companies and temporarily cut prices for Standard Oil kerosene to force rival companies to sell out. Standard Oil made a fortune because Rockefeller was able to control the supply and prices of oil products by using
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Indiana Law that mandated compulsory sterilization of degenerates in 1907(HarRY CLAY SHCAP CITE). From there‚ the popularity of eugenics continued to grow and national committees‚ like the Rockefeller Foundation ‚ funded research. The Rockefeller Foundation was in charge of the drastic decline in population(ROCKEFELLER DOINGS). With the help of all these people and many more‚ eugenics were on the rise and soon Hitler realized this is exactly what he needed to complete his chase for the “Master
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employers and managers often would get extremely large amounts of money from the incoming profits of the business while laborers were down below scraping up a meager pay and had to deal with longer hours and faster pace to keep with demand. John D Rockefeller is a
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business people wanted to be the best and essentially get the most money. An example of this is John D. Rockefeller‚ his business was standard oil‚ when he found a way to make oil into kerosene‚ he began to crush all other competition. According to http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h957.html “He (Rockefeller) eagerly crushed his competitors‚ ruining hundreds in his pursuit of profit.” Rockefeller didn’t care about others and became centered around his own wealth. This would be a bad thing because
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would be Thomas Edison’s light bulb and many other inventions which led to his finding of Menlo Park Laboratory. An additional cause was the rise of big business leaders such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. Andrew Carnegie built the Carnegie Steel mill from nothing while Rockefeller led the oil companies. With the rise of industrial America‚ came many benefits to the American people. Due to the rise of many big companies‚ many earned jobs. There was also an increase of specialized jobs
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Syracuse houses one of the great examples of Art Deco in architectural design. Art Deco was a stray away from the natural organic forms of the Art Nouveau movement‚ heading towards a more geometric‚ modern‚ and linear style. The Niagara Mohawk building exemplifies Art Deco like no other building in the city. Syracuse‚ an industrial city in the early to mid-1900s‚ required a lot of electricity. Many other cites used industrialization as an opportunity to build Art Deco buildings as well‚ due to their
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people are Andrew Carnegie‚ John D. Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan. These three dominant individuals had the absolute power of the three most important and meaningful empires. Andrew Carnegie was the king of iron and rail road. John D. Rockefeller ruled the petroleum industry. J. P. Morgan led the electric system. Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller had a personal feud caused by the death of Carnegie’s mentor Thomas A. Scott. Carnegie vowed revenge on Rockefeller by making himself richer than
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ATTICA STATE PRISON UPRISING SEPTEMBER 13‚ 1971 George Jackson the most famous political prisoner in the 70’s and leader of the Black Panther Party was incarcerated at San Quentin Prison in California. He was killed by the State on August 21‚ 1971. Because of this Attica inmates organized a hunger strike and wore black arm bands. George Jackson’s revolutionary writings in his book he had written “Soledad Brother” was passed from inmate to inmate inside Attica
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After the Civil War‚ American ideals and views shifted greatly as the country moved into an industrial era; big business leaders came out on top and the rest of society worked day in and day out with not even a fraction of such success. This structure of society was reflected in the sport of sailing. At the beginning of the 1870s‚ sailing was changing from a classic leisure activity to a more competitive sport as it moved from Europe to America. The same business tycoons who took control of the markets
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WOMEN: THE NEW ART PATRONS IN 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY AMERICA Art was not always a woman’s pursuit‚ like it is nowadays. In the late 18th century‚ during the Enlightenment‚ the idea of the “gentleman” pervaded American culture‚ as exemplified by Ben Franklin. Arts‚ natural sciences and humanities became de rigueur for respectable men. This continued throughout the early 20th century‚ until the end of the westward expansion and the transformation of the United States from a rural to an urban society
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