American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism [1865 to 1900]
In the decades between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century, a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen transformed the United States from an agrarian economy to a world power.
Machine production|intricately organized factories
Technological innovation
Expanded markets
Nationwide transportation network |Communications networks| telegraph and telephone.
Capital investment|expansion of production|
Growth of large enterprises and specialization
The Impact of Industrialization on American Society
While Industry makes the country smaller and brings people into an integrated marketplace with new consumer products, their only avenue for participation is as an overworked and underpaid factory worker
The independent spirit of the average Industrial worker DIES!!
Decreased independence
Increased company control:
Exploitation of women and children:
Specialization and the devaluation of skilled labor
The State of the Union - Labor Organizes [1869 to 1900]
Industrialization radically transforms the practices of labor and the condition of American working people. But despite frequent industrial strife and the efforts of various reformers and unions, workers failed to develop effective labor organizations to match corporate forms of business.
Conditions: Wages|Hours|Working Conditions
Collective Action: Knights of Labor| 1869
Collective Action: American Federation of Labor|1886
Conflicts: Haymarket Riot |First Red Scare|1886
Conflicts: Homestead Strike|1892
The Power of Ideas: Social Thought in the Gilded Age
The power of ideas provide possible solutions to combat the problems associated with industrialization, immigration, and urbanization structuring the way society thinks about issues and shapes outcomes.
Economic Individualism
The Social Gospel
Laissez-Faire
Herbert Spencer| William Graham Sumner|Social Darwinism
Andrew Carnegie |The Gospel of Wealth |1889
Progress and Poverty in Urban America [1865 to 1898]
The explosive growth of America’s large urban centers. Explosive urban was accompanied by often disturbing changes, including the new immigrant, crowded slums, and conflicts over cultural values.
Progress| Life in the American City
Poverty|Life of Immigrants and African Americans
Dumbbell Tenemants|Settlement Houses
Boss Tweed|Tammany Hall
Huddled Masses Yearning To Breathe Free [1880 to 1920]
The story of mass migration to the United States is the intersection of other narratives - farming in the West and Industry in East. Weakness of labor (structural factor) is largely due to a diversity of immigrants.
Push Factors
Pull Factors
Old Immigration vs. New Immigration
Settlement Patterns| Urban vs. Rural
Immigration and Cultural Conflict in Gilded Age America [1870 to 1900]
Is America a haven for the poor and oppressed or guided by fluctuating feelings about race and ethnicity, and fear of foreign political and labor agitation, we set boundaries and restrictions on who may come to this country and whether they may stay as citizens.
Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882
Immigration Act of 1891
Ellis Island Inspection Station|1892
The Gentlemen's Agreement |1907
Angel Island Immigration Station|1910
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