post reconstruction

Chapter 14

In the late 1800’s changes came about in industry and inventions patents were licenses to make use or sell and invention

Railroads improve transportation across the nation

Communications

 Improve with the phone and the telegraph

Electricity and the light bulb improves working conditions around the nation

In industry especially the steel industry the Bessemer Process creates cheaper and stronger steel

 Mass production of steel brought about the steel age

 Large buildings and bridges were built during the late 1900  the Brooklyn Bridge was built bye John Roebling

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Captains of industry were business owners who were good for America robber barons were not good for America

 Name some of the captains of industry

 Name some of the robber barons

Social Darwinism what was that to mean the government should stay out of business and the strong companies would get rich and the unsuccessful ones would fail

Monopolies grew strong toward the end of the 1800s and carried over to the 1900s

Cartels were the results of monopolies control the supply of goods and thus the price

The standard oil trust business movement

The work force for the new industrial giants is as follows

Who took care of workers and their families?

Factory workers and their production levels

How did that improve and what about working conditions

Divisions of labor what was that

Workingwomen and children             

Reactions to labor conditions

Strikes by labor unions

What is socialism who was Karl Marx

Labor unions in the United States name some of the early ones

Early labor unions were the knights of labor American federation of labor

What is collective bargaining?

Employers fought unions how