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Ch. 24 History
The Industrial Revolution- Part 2?
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 8 Reasons for Industrial Growth | Abundance of natural resources, Business leadership, Investment capital, Technology, Markets, Labor, Government Support, and Advanced Transportation Network. |
| Financial Backing Equation | Financial Backing + Inventions + Resources = New Industries + expansion of old industries. |
| U.S. was leading what in 1900. | The leading industrial power. |
| The industrial growth rate in America | 4% |
| After the Civil War... | Economy became more diverse and "Go-Getters" appeared. |
| Go- Getter | Aggresive Americans who looked for new and improved ways to make a living |
| Pre-Civil War Production | Textiles, clothing, and leather products. |
| Post Civil War Production | "Heavy Industries" like Steel, petroleum, electric power, and Industrial Machinery. |
| Samuel Morse | Telegraph |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Telephone |
| Waterman | The Fountain Pen |
| Cyrus W. Field | Transatlantic Communication |
| Kodak | Camera |
| Gillette | The razor and blade |
| Pre-Civil War lamps... | powered by camphene. |
| Camphene | Turpentine and alcohol. |
| Kerosene | came from coal, but expensive and flammable. |
| Gearge H. Bissell | Founded Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co. in West Pennsylvania. |
| Oil was first used as... | Medicine |
| Bejamin Silliman Jr. | Hired to discover uses of oil, he found petroleum. |
| Edwin L. Drake | Adopted the water drill for use in excavating oil. |
| Uncle Billy Smith | Hired by Drake to teach him drilling. |
| First Oil?! | August 29, 1859. |
| D.C.?? | direct current |
| 1st patent by Edison | 1869- a machine to record votes. |
| Invention Factory Location. | Menlo Park, New Jersey. |
| Edison's other inventions? | Phonograph, lamp, and motion picture camera. |
| A.C.?? | alternating current |
| Geoge Westinghouse's inventions | Air brake for railroads and the high voltage transformer. |
| Impact of Electricity on Business and Daily Life | Increased productivity, it was cheaper, it was more efficient, used for home appliances. |
| Samuel Morse's Company | Western Union Telegraph Co. |
| Alexander Graham Bell's Company | American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (ATT) |
| 1st telephone exchange | Jan. 28, 1878. served 21 people. |
| 1st President with phone. | Rutherford B. Hayes. |
| Railroads...? | The first BIG business. |
| Impact of Railroads | New Markets, Mass production, Mass consumption, Economic Specialization/new industries, Created the need for a standard time, Led to modern stockholders, and brought up Laws to regulate competitions. |
| Trunk Lines | Major route between large citise |
| Major Trunk Lines | NY Central Railroad, Baltimore and Ohio, and Pennsylvania Railroad. |
| Eastern Rail Lines | Each had a standard gauge. |
| Role of Railroads | Promoted settlement and linked the East to the West. |
| Subsidies | A form of loans and land grants. |
| Land Grant | Given in alternate mile square sections in a chekerboard pattern |
| Government needed railroads for... | Cheap transportation for mail and Troops |
| Negative RR Consequences | Hastily/poorly constructed, corrupted, public protests |
| Union Pacific RR | built from Omaha Nebraska and went west |
| Central Pacific RR | build from Sacramento, CA and build east |
| Greeville Dodge | Owned Union Pacific |
| Leland Stanford | Owned Central Pacific |
| Promontory Point, Utah | Meeting point of Union Pacific and Central Pacific |
| Railroads | Union, Central, Southern, and Northern Pacific, Atchison, Topeka, and Santa fe, and the Great Northern RR |
| Great Northern RR | Only one to be built without govt. funds. Built by James Hull |
| Railroad car =- Passenger gets their own bed. | Pullman Car |
| Railroad car =- Passenger gets their own seat. | Day-Coach Car |
| Railroad car =- Passengers sat on a bench | Zulu Car |
| Rebates | To improve profits, best customers got rebates. |
| 1893 Financial Panic | This forced 1/4 of all railroads to close. |
| J.P. Morgan bought | He bought bankrupt railroads and Carnegie's railroads. |
| Overproducing RRs: Consolidation | 7 giant RRs controlled 2/3 of railroads in America. |
| Granger Laws | Goal of this law was to regulate railroad prices. |
| Federal Interstate Commerce Act | 1887- Prohibited rebates and pools. |
| Frederick W. Taylor | "Science of Management" - There was a efficient systematic way of doing things. Used at Bethelham Iron Co. |
| Mesabi Range | The leading steel production area. |
| John A. Roebling | Ohio suspension bridge is model for Brooklynn's. Designs it. |
| Washington Roebling | Gains bridge credit, but dies from the "beads" |
| Robber Baron | Business leaders that built their fortunes by stealing from the public. |
| Captain of Industry | Served the Nation in a positive wat |
| Characteristics of a Big Business | Large investments, good use of transportation, had a broad range of operations, revised role of ownership, and new methods of management. |
| Oligopoly | Market dominated by a few large firms. |
| Monopoly | Complete Contro of a product. |
| Cartels | Monopoly where competition is limited by agreement. |
| Vertical Integration | Business processed product "from the ground to the finished product" |
| Horizontal Integration | The bringing of companies under a single organization. |
| Social Darwinism | The idea that Darwin's theories applied to economics. |
| Gospel of Wealth | Religion created the rich class. Proclaimed by Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Russell Conwell. |
| Iron Law of Wages | The idea that wages will always revert to a certain level. |
| Horatio Alger | Writer that introduced a new genre that paralled the industrial revolution. |
| Gibson Girl | The ideal representation of a girl. |
| C.F. Dowd | Devised the standard time zones (Eastern, Western, Central, and Mountain) |
| Gearge Stephenson | Made RR's standard track size (4 ft. 8.5 in.) between wheels. |
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