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Chapter 18
The Rise of Smokestack America
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History
12th Grade
09/20/2011

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Industrial Heartland
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New England to the Mid-West (Steel Belt)
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Andrew Carnegie
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Vertical integration; United State's Steel
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Vertical integration
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One person owns all of the steps in production
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John D. Rockefeller
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Horizontal integration; Standard Oil
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Horizontal integration
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control completely one part of production
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Chain Migration
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One comes first then others follow
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Jane Addams
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founded the Hull House to help less fortunate
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Middle-Class Women
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Have more rights which causes more women to get jobs. Mostly teachers It results in less women having kids.
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Education
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By 1900 there are 6,000 schools and attendance is required for minors. This ultimately helps end child labor
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Horatio Alger Jr.
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write books to popularize the myth of the self-made man
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National Labor Union
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Wanted to end wage slavery, wanted 8-hour workday and curb the power of the owners
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1877 Railroad Strike
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100 people died. Wanted higher wages and shorter hours
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The Knights of Labor
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accepted everyone but wasn't very successful
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American Federation of Labor
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union of skilled workers that wanted higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions. Excluded blacks and women
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Haymarket Riot
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ended with a bomb explosion, 7 police killed and 8 people convicted with 3 of them executed.
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The Homestead Strike
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Andrew Carnage and the Homestead steel mills want wage decrease.
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Pullman Strike
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150,000 employees get cut wages or laid off. $340,000 of damage and many killed.
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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No Chinese immigration for 10 years
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Eugene V. Debs
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organizes the American Railway Union
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Pollution
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factories will pump smoke, soot, and ash into the air
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