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Impact of Railroad Empires |
The Vanderbits became one of the riches family because they had a Railroad Empire. They had many railroads which helped people transport goods and travel faster, but they became a super power and controlled the whole entire Railroad. |
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The Vanderbilts |
Very rich family. Owned the railroads. |
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Promontory Point, Utah |
That's where the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869 |
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Effect on buffalo, Native Americans |
When the Transcontineltal Railroad opened the buffalos would cross over the railroad in big herds. So people would shot the buffalo from the train. They killed thousands and the buffalo were what the Native Americans hunted. |
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Agricultural and cattle expansion |
Bought more land and people harvested more food |
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Andrew Carnegie, Social Gospel, Philanthropy |
Andrew Carnegie was the first man of steel. Developed the Bessemer Process makes steel production easier. He started the gospel of wealth. Rich people giving back to the community. Social Gospel help the poor |
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John D. Rockefeller |
He founded the Started Oil Company and then soon owned all of the Oil Companies and became a super power |
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How new inventions shaped America in late 19th century (pluses/minuses) |
Big Progress= Big Problems Pollution Crime Overcrowding All in the city People got new ideas to inventions were created. |
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Alexander Graham Bel |
Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. |
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Thomas Edison |
Thomas Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. |
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Henry Ford |
Created cars which helped Rockefeller because cars needed oil to run |
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Wright Brothers |
The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903, four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. |
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George Westinghouse & General Electric |
The Westinghouse Electric Corporation was an American manufacturing company. It was founded on January 8, 1886, asWestinghouse Electric Company and later renamed Westinghouse Electric Corporation by inventor and entrepreneur George Westinghouse (1846-1914). George Westinghouse had previously founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company. The corporation purchased CBS broadcasting company 1995 and became CBS Corporation in 1997. |
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Assembly Line |
An assembly line is a manufacturing process (most of the time called a progressive assembly) in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation where the parts are added in sequence until the final assembly is produced. |
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Mass Production (impact of)Corporation, Stocks, Monopolies (pluses/minuses) |
Monopolies were able to control the whole entire industry so they could put people out of business. Big Industries had child labour but was able to produce a lot of items. Stocks helped markerters and people could find great wealth in stocks. |
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Sherman Anti-trust |
Spilt up monopolies and superpowers. No more superpowers |
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Immigration |
People moved from different countries to America. Ireland, Russia and other places |
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Impact, reasons, pluses/minuses |
Nativism helped increase the population and work force but more people more crime, overpopulation a lot of poor people |
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Nativism |
Nativism- when older immigrants discriminate against newer immigrants. |
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Ellis Island |
Where the immigrants come to be allowed into America |
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Statue of Liberty |
The symbol of America and freedom |
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Push/Pull factors |
Push Factors-Lack of land (West Europe)-Religious/political persecution (East Europe)-Revolution (Mexico) Pull Factors-Factory Jobs-Cheap Land (Western US)-Freedom- |
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Chinese Exclusion Act |
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. |
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Urbanization |
Urbanization is a population shift from rural to urban areas, "the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas", and the ways in which each society adapts to the change |
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Causes/trends |
To make American great again and have greater technology
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Changes in City Life |
Skyscrapers Subways, trolleys, & bridges Public parks – Olmsted Department stores |
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Modernization |
To upgrade the technology and other supplies |
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Parks |
Public parks – Olmsted |
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Department stores |
Stores were able to sell things that were in high demand |
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Vaudeville |
New humor and started talking about social status and race and discrimination |
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Growth of organized sports |
It became more popular and more people joined sports especially baseball |
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Ragtime – Scott Joplin |
Piano player. Made the entertainer. Black man |
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Poverty, building codes, organized help |
-more pollution -muckrackers |
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What is a union? Pluses and minuses |
Joining a group LaborUnions = workers united to bargain with owners groups that stand up for whats wrong |
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Goals |
Shorter hours Higher pay Right to bargain collectively Right to strike (protest owners bystopping work) |
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Strikes and Strikebreakers |
A strikebreaker (sometimes derogatorily called a scab, blackleg, or knobstick) is a person who works despite an ongoing strike. Strikebreakers are usually individuals who are not employed by the company prior to the trade union Strike is to stop working |
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Collective Bargaining |
Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employees and a group of employers aimed at agreements to regulate working salaries. |
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Muckraker Journalism (Sinclair and Riis) |
People go undercover to bust big companies Jacob Riis and Upton Sinclair |
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16th and 17th Amendments |
The 16th amendment introducing a personal graduated income tax took over three years to be ratified, but the 17th amendment allowing Senators to be elected by popular vote took less than eleven months. |
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Pure Food and Drug Act |
Excerpt from the Pure Food and Drug Act. An Act— For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleteriousfoods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes |
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Suburbs |
A suburb is a residential area or a mixed use area, either existing as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city. |
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Goals of Progressivism |
Expand beliefs and technology |
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Significance of Teddy Roosevelt |
Upgraded the Navy |