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The Gilded Age:
Rise of Industry
& Big Business1865-1900
A16W | 10.12.14
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Origins of the Term: Mark Twain’s The Gilded Age
(1873)
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GUIDING QUESTION
Why did the United States become an
industrial power in the period 1865
and 1900?
How did this economic growth also cause
problems?
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QUESTION TO CONSIDER
Has capitalism been good
or bad for the United
States?
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Causes of Rapid
Industrialization
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Rise to Industrial Supremacy
Percent of World Industrial Output
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Causes of Rapid Industrialization
1. abundant supply of raw materials
2. abundant labor supply - migration, immigration
3. new technology – innovations that raise productivity
Patents - US granted 36K total patents prior to 1860, 440K from 1860-1890
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Causes of Rapid Industrialization
4. abundant capital
5. talented businessmen (entrepreneurs)
6. new types of business organization
7. growing markets – expansion of population and
settled area (West, cities)
8. business-friendly governments – laissez-faire,
but: subsidies, tariffs
9. steam revolution of 1830s-1850s - railroads
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Industrial Production, 1919
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OLD INDUSTRIES
TRANSFORMED, NEW
INDUSTRIES BORN
OUT OF NEW TECHNOLOGY &
INNOVATION
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Railroad Network 1860s
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Railroad Network 1870s
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Railroad Network 1880s
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1. RAILROADS
Dramatic expansion key factor in
industrial development:
First big business in the U.S. Corporations, stock
New methods of management
“pools” (cartels)
Key to opening the West
Aided the development of other
industries
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Railroads Create Great Wealth
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jay Gould
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2. STEELBessemer-Kelly Process
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2. STEEL & Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
mass production
economies of scale
“vertical integration”
Coke fields
Iron ore deposits
Ships
Railroads
purchased by Carnegie
purchased by Carnegie
purchased by Carnegie
purchased by Carnegie
Steel mills
purchased by Carnegie
Labor?
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Iron and
Steel
Production,
1900
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Carnegie Mansion, New York
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Iron & Steel
Production1875-1915
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International
Steel
Production, 1880 & 1914
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3. OIL & Rockefeller
George Bissell Edwin Drake
Oil Field, Western PA, 1860s
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3. OIL John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil Co.
horizontal integration
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3. OIL & Rockefeller holding company
Problem of the “trusts”
trust
monopoly
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4. ELECTRICITY &
Edison
Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park, NJ Lab
Thomas Edison
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Edison’s Menlo Park Lab
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The Phonograph
(1877)
The Ediphone or Dictaphone
The Motion Picture
Camera
Edison:
• innovator
• businessman
•Age of technology
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5. The AUTOMOBILE,
Ford & Mass Production
Henry Ford
“Fordism”
Taylorism
1913 Ford
Model T
The Moving Assembly Line
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Ford & Mass Production
Frederick W. Taylor
The Principles of Scientific
Management (1911)
“Taylorism”
Model T Prices & Sales, 1909-1923
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6. Consolidation J.P. Morgan
consolidation holding companies
corporate mergers
J.P. Morgan
Number of corporate
mergers, 1895-1910
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Industrial Consolidation:
Iron & Steel Firms
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Wall Street:
1867 & 1900
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Wealth Concentration Held by Top 1% of
Households
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DEFENDING &
CRITICIZING THE
NEW INDUSTRIAL
CAPITALIST
CULTURE
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“The Protectors of Our Industries”
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The “Bosses”
of the Senate
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GUIDING QUESTIONHow did proponents justify the extremes of
wealth and poverty in the United States in the
late 19th and early 20th centuries?
How did critics explain the extremes and what, if
anything, did they propose to do about it?
Herbert Spencer / William Graham Sumner
Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth
Horatio Alger
Booker T. Washington
Henry George, Progress and Poverty
Eugene V. Debs
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DEFENSES OF THE NEW
INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM laissez-faire
Adam Smith
social darwinism Herbert Spencer
“survival of the fittest”
Andrew Carnegie The Gospel of Wealth
Russell Conwell “Acres of Diamonds”
Horatio Alger Protestant work ethic
Herbert Spencer Russell H. Conwell
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Defenses of Industrial Capitalism
Social Darwinism
“The growth of a large
business is merely the
survival of the fittest.”
-John D. Rockefeller
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CRITICISMS OF INDUSTRIAL
CAPITALISM
Socialist Labor Party
Eugene Debs
Henry George, Progress and Poverty
Edward Bellemy, Looking Backward
business cycle
recessions and panics