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7 features of Industrial Growth
- 1 CW
- 2 improving ppl's daily lives
- 3 England Industrial Revolution
- 4 inventors and scientists
- 5 immigration
- 6 natural resources
- 7 capitalism
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what did Adam Smith write?
The Wealth of the Nations
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what about the government?
- Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations
- Laissez-faire
- infrastructure
- fair laws
- military & naval protection
- protective tariffs
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who invented the Telegraph (morse code)?
Samuel Morse
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who invented the Sewing Machine?
Elias Howe
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who invented Alternative Current?
George Westinghouse
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who invented the Telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
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first two Suspension Bridges?
Brooklyn Bridge and Roebling bridge
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how did railroads transform America?
- 1 transport
- 2 shipping
- 3 time zone
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what does henry Ford help develop?
mass production
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what is the Impact of Industrialization?
- 1 linking world markets
- 2 changes society
- - farming tech.
- - move to industrial centers
- - repetitive factory work
- - lower prices for goods, higher costs
- 3 environmental issues
- - industrial and mining wastes
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what are the Advantages of Corporations?
- 1 organizers can raise large sums of $ by selling stock
- 2 stockholders enjoy limited liability
- 3 a corporation is steady because it is not dependent on a specific owner
- 4 monopoly - some corporations tried to control all levels of production
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Andrew Carnegie Integration?
vertical
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John Rockefeller Integration?
horizontal
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How is Life in the Factories?
- 1 different family structure
- 2 language barriers
- 3 sweatshops
- 4 poor working conditions
- 5 no safety regulations or workman's compensation
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Management VS Labor
- 1 collective bargaining
- 2 socialism
- 3 Knights of Labor
- 4 American Federation of Labor
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why the old immigrants feel threatened by the new?
- 1 cultural differences
- 2 job opportunities
- 3 ethnic/religious differences (prejudice)
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Push Factors of Immigration
- 1 persecution
- 2 economic hardship
- 3 loss of jobs
- 4 war
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Pull factors of Immigration
- 1 rel and political freedom
- 2 cheap land
- 3 factory jobs
- 4 follow family
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what are Characteristics of Urbanization?
- 1 Bright Light Syndrome
- 2 hard work, little $
- 3 magnet for economic and social opps
- 4 mass transit
- 5 pronounced class distinctions
- 6 new opps for women
- 7 squared living conditions for many
- 8 political machines/labor unions
- 9 ethnic neighborhoods
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what are Problems of Urbanization?
- 1 disease ran rampant
- 2 sewers backed up
- 3 poor ventilation/ overcrowding
- 4 tuberculosis
- 5 crime/prostitution
- 6 ethnic violence
- 7 fires
- 8 sewers in rivers
- 9 pollution
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how the AF of L would help the workers
- 1 catered to the skilled worker
- 2 represented workers in matters of national legislation
- 3 maintained a national strike fund
- 4 evangelized the cause of unionism
- 5 prevented disputes among the many craft unions
- 6 mediated disputes b/t management & labor
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immigration waves
- 1 northern and western europe escaping religious turmoil or seeking economic opportunities (protestants)
- 2 irish and german immigrants - potato famine & revolutions in german states (mostly catholic)
- 3 "new immigrants" - beginning 1870s southern & eastern Europe (mostly poor, settled in cities, Jewish, catholic)
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immigrant experience
- 1 decision to come
- 2 hard & costly journey
- 3 steerage - worst accomodations on the ship
- 4 uncertain future/finding employment & housing
- 5 assimilation - learning the language, understanding cultural norms
- 6 "melting pot" excluded ethnic minorities
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