Chapter 24: Industry comes of Age
Media economics
The progressive era
The Rise of Big Business. The Rise of Big Business Objectives To analyze the growth of corporations To describe monopolies and trusts and evaluate their.
Progressives & Reform Copy the words in YELLOW Government Reform: Spoils System Spoils System = when a politician gives someone a government job in return.
1865 – 1900. Revolutions in technology: American inventors filed over a half a million patents since the end of the Civil War (Bell, Edison, Ford…)
John m. Murrin, et al. Liberty, Equality, Power A History of the American People Chapter 19 The Emergence of Corporate America 1865-1900.
Captains of Industry or Robber Barons. Captain of Industry – person who builds a huge business and helps society. Robber Baron – people that get ahead.
Theories of Management The Evolution of Management.
Warm Up
1 & The Gilded Age. 2 Industrialization A change in the system of producing goods from hand tools in homes & shops to power-driven machines in factories.
Industrial Giants: The Kings of the “Gilded Age”. A closer look at the wealth of the leading 19 th Century Industrialists of the United States.
