Chapter 14 – The Gilded Age 1870-1900

INDUSTRY AND RAILROADS

Second Industrial Revolution:

New Industries:

Bessemer process:

Importance of Steel:

Modern cities:

“Black Gold”:

Importance of oil:

Spindletop, TX – 1901:

Transcontinental Railroad:

Impact of Railroad:

THE RISE OF BIG BUSINESS

Horatio Alger:

Entrepreneur:

Capitalism:

Laissez-Faire:

Social Darwinism:

Proprietorships and Partnerships:

Corporations:

Trusts and Monopolies:

John D. Rockefeller:

Andrew Carnegie:

Cornelius Vanderbilt:

Vertical Integration:

Horizontal Integration:

“Robber Barons” or “Captains of Industry”

Mass Marketing:

Advertising:

Department Stores:

Mail Order Catalogues:

R.F.D.:

WORKERS ORGANIZE:

Income Gap:

Sherman Antitrust Act:

Makeup of the Workforce:

Sweatshops:

Knights of Labor:

Great Railroad Strike 1877:

Haymarket Riot 1886:

Xenophobia:

Blacklists:

American Federation of Labor – Samuel Gompers:

Homestead Strike 1892:

Eugene V. Debs:

Wright Brothers:

Advances in Public Transportation:

Communication Revolution:

Telegraph:

Telephone:

Typewriter:

Thomas Edison – “The Wizard of Menlo Park”: