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The Gilded Age: Industrialism and Its Discontents

The Gilded Age: Industrialism and Its Discontents. Many slides generously (and with permission) taken from Ms . Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY Additional slides, content and alterations by Richard Sturgeon, HHS. Essential Question.

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The Gilded Age: Industrialism and Its Discontents

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  1. The Gilded Age: Industrialism and Its Discontents Many slides generously (and with permission) taken from Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY Additional slides, content and alterations by Richard Sturgeon, HHS

  2. Essential Question Industrialization increased the standard of living and the opportunities of most Americans, but at what cost? Who were the “discontents” and what were their complaints?

  3. A Time of Extremes

  4. The Gilded Age

  5. Causes of Rapid Industrialization • Steam Revolution of the 1830s-1850s. • The Railroad fueled the growing US economy: * First big business in the US. * A magnet for financial investment. * The key to opening the West. * Aided the development of other industries.

  6. Causes of Rapid Industrialization • Technological innovations.* Bessemer and open hearth process * Refrigerated cars * Edison “Wizard of Menlo Park” light bulb, phonograph, motion pictures.

  7. Causes of Rapid Industrialization • Unskilled & semi-skilled labor in abundance. • Abundant capital. • New, talented group of businessmen [entrepreneurs] and advisors. • Market growing as US population increased. • Government willing to help at all levels to stimulate economic growth. • Abundant natural resources.

  8. Thomas Alva Edison “Wizard of Menlo Park”

  9. The Light Bulb

  10. The Phonograph (1877)

  11. The Ediphone or Dictaphone

  12. The Motion Picture Camera

  13. Alexander Graham Bell Telephone (1876)

  14. Alternate Current George Westinghouse

  15. Alternate Current Westinghouse Lamp ad

  16. The Airplane Wilbur Wright Orville Wright Kitty Hawk, NC – December 7, 1903

  17. Model T Automobile Henry FordI want to pay my workers so that they can afford my product!

  18. “Model T” Prices & Sales

  19. U. S. Patents Granted 1790s  276 patents issued. 1990s  1,119,220 patents issued.

  20. New Business Culture • Laissez Faire the ideology of the Industrial Age. * Individual as a moral and economic ideal. * Individuals should compete freely in the marketplace. * The market was not man-made or invented. * No room for government in the market!

  21. 2.Social Darwinism • British economist. • Advocate of laissez-faire. • Adapted Darwin’s ideas from the “Origin of Species” to humans. • Notion of “Survival of the Fittest.” Herbert Spencer

  22. 2.Social Darwinism in America • Individuals must have absolute freedom to struggle, succeed or fail. • Therefore, state intervention to reward society and the economy is futile! William Graham SumnerFolkways (1906)

  23. New Business Culture:“The American Dream?” • Protestant (Puritan) “Work Ethic”*Horatio Alger [100+ novels] Is the idea of the “self-made man” a MYTH??

  24. New Type of Business Entities • Pool1887 Interstate Commerce ActInterstate Commerce Commission created. • Trust John D. Rockefeller *Standard Oil Co.

  25. Standard Oil Co.

  26. New Type of Business Entities • Trust:*Horizontal Integration John D. Rockefeller *Vertical Integration:A. Gustavus Swift  Meat-packing B. Andrew Carnegie  U. S. Steel

  27. Iron & Steel Production

  28. New Type of Business Entities

  29. U. S. Corporate Mergers

  30. Industrial Consolidation:Iron & Steel Firms

  31. New Financial Businessman The Broker:*J. Pierpont Morgan

  32. Wall Street – 1867 & 1900

  33. The Reorganization of Work Frederick W. Taylor The Principles of Scientific Management (1911)

  34. The Reorganization of Work The Assembly Line

  35. Wealth Concentration Held by Top 1% of Households

  36. % of Billionaires in 1900

  37. % of Billionaires in 1918

  38. “The Protectors of Our Industries”

  39. The “Bosses” of the Senate

  40. The “Robber Barons” of the Past

  41. Cornelius [“Commodore”] Vanderbilt Can’t I do what I want with my money?

  42. William Vanderbilt • The public be damned! • What do I care about the law? H’aint I got the power?

  43. The Gospel of Wealth:Religion in the Era of Industrialization • Wealth no longer looked upon as bad. • Viewed as a sign of God’s approval. • Christian duty to accumulate wealth. • Should not help the poor. Russell H. Conwell

  44. “On Wealth” • The Anglo-Saxon race is superior. • “Gospel of Wealth” (1901). • Inequality is inevitable and good. • Wealthy should act as “trustees” for their “poorer brethren.” Andrew Carnegie

  45. Regulating the Trusts 1877 Munn. v. IL 1886 Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company v. IL 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act*in “restraint of trade”*“rule of reason” loophole 1895 US v. E. C. Knight Co.

  46. World’s Industrial Output

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