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| What are the 6 key terms for Industrialization? |
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1. Deskilling
2. Capitalism
3. Andrew Carnegie
4. Social Darwinism
5. Haymarket Riot
6. Socialism |
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| What are the 6 factors of success of Industrialization in the U.S.? |
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1. Natural Resources
2. Rail Roads
3. Government Aid
4. Foreign Investment
5. Inventions and innovations
6. Immigration |
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| Why are natural resources so important? |
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| We have resources other countries don't have, and we can trade |
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| In 1865, how many miles Rail Roads did we have? 19th Century? |
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| What were rail roads a new type of? |
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| Business were normally small local businesses, but what does the rail road do to them? |
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| Gives them the opportunity to grow larger. |
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| What did they have to do for the states while there were rail roads? |
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| In order for the people to move west, the rail roads needed to move west. What did the Government Aid to the rail roads? |
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| Land going out west. The states also gave land to rail roads. |
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| What did the government also do to help sell American made products? |
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| A tax on an imported good |
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| What did JP Morgan do in foreign investment? |
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| Received foreign capital from British investors |
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| What did the invention of the Bessemer do? |
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| Produced better and faster steel |
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| Where did the U.S. get the idea of the Bessemer? |
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| What is steel lighter and stronger than? |
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| What is an example of a U.S. inventor and what did he invent? |
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| Thomas Edison- Light bulb |
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| What is Research and Development? |
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| Searching and investing in new products |
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| # of people are millions and the do hard cheap work. |
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| What are immigrants a source of? |
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| Individuals making government decisions, and the government stays out of the way |
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| Who wrote The Wealth of Nations, and what was it about? |
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| Adam Smith, and Capitalism as a good thing. He was for capitalism |
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| What are 4 different names for capitalism? |
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Free market capitalism,
free enterprise capitalism,
private enterprise capitalism,
and Laissez- Faire |
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| What does Laissez- Faire mean? |
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| With Capitalism, consumers get the best market choice with the lowest price |
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| What was against capitalism? |
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| What was Karl Marx's definition of capitalism? |
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| "A centralized ownership of the means of production carrying with it the system of wage labor" |
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What did Karl Marx mean when he says:
1. Centralized ownership
2. productions
3. wage labor |
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1. Owned by a few hands
2. ex. factories
3. workers pay |
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| Why did Karl Marx view capitalism in a negative way? |
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| Because the same thing happened in Britain, and he pointed out the bad things like child labor and death |
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| In capitalism, there is ______ v. ________ |
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| Who is under capital? Give a persons name. Labor? |
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Owners, Andrew Carnegie,
Workers |
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| What type of business did Andrew Carnegie run? |
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| Tell how Andrew Carnegie grew up. (4) |
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| Immigrant, started working at 13, learned how to read telegraph messages on his own, and became president of the Pennsylvania Rail Roads at a young age and was extremely successful |
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| What did Andrew Carnegie invest in to become steel? |
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| What was the business called? |
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| Carnegie Steel Corporation |
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| Carnegie lived the American Dream |
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| how much of Carnegie's money did he donate? |
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| What is vertical integration? |
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| When you own the entire process of a business so you don't have to pay a middle man. Controlling from start to finish |
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| What where the three things that Carnegie owned? (in order-vertical integration) |
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| mines, steel mills, and the shipping |
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| Carnegie steel produced more than who? |
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| What does John D. Rockefeller own and produce? |
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| How was Rockefeller ruthless? |
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| He would place his business beside a small business and undersell them to make them go out of business, and then he would go back to normal prices |
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| How would Rockefeller get Rail Road transportation extremely cheap? |
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| He would get a discount on transportation because no rail road is going to say no to him since he is such a big customer |
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Term
| What did the cartoon of the octopus show us? |
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| That standard oil was taking over society |
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| What are time motion studies and who created them? |
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| where you time the workers to see how fast they are going. Fredrick Taylor |
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| What is time motion studies also refereed to as? |
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| Taylorism- (it was like a fad) |
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| What was the normal time that workers would work? |
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| 10hrs. day - 6 days a week |
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| What was the normal time that workers would work for steel industries? |
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| 12hrs. day - 7 days a week |
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| What was the Average wage for a worker? |
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| How much would a family of 4 need? |
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| How would you make up your debt? |
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| Get the children and wives to work |
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| How much did a child get paid? |
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| Where would women work since there weren't many jobs? |
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| Do housework for other, or laundry for others |
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| Every year, how many work related deaths were there? |
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| What does the government do if the husband dies? |
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| They don't have to do anything. There is no workers comp |
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| Back then, how much did 2% own of the worlds wealth? 10%? Non wealthy 90%? |
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| What is Social Darwinism? |
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| The theories of Charles Darwin that show survival of the fittest and says that the wealthy are wealthy because they were born to be wealthy. |
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| Who was a British Sociologist who adapted Darwinism and applied it? |
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| What are two things workers would form if they were mad at their company? |
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| What were unions used for? Strikes? |
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| Whose side was the government mainly on? |
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| What were the knights of labors? |
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| A union who allowed any workers to join (even blacks and women) (The more you have, the stronger you will be) |
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| If you started a union, why did you have to keep it a secret? |
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| Because you could easily get fired for starting something like that |
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| How many strikes happened a year? |
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| What did the Knights of Labor strike for for a long time? |
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| What happened during the Haymarket Riot? |
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| bomb went off and killed a police officer and injured others. There were multiple shots fired. The leaders were then arrested, and 7 were sentenced to death. The knights of Labor were finished |
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| What is anarchism? Give an example. |
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| No governance. Labor organists |
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| What was the American Federation of Labor? |
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| Very different from The Knights of Labor because they focused on only skilled laborers |
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| The workers are on the losing side, and joining a union is very risky. |
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| What did Karl Marx predict that would happen to Capitalism? |
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| It would turn to Socialism |
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| What happens in Socialism? (3) |
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It is a public enterprise that is owned and operated by the state (government),
Get a better pay,
and The profits are distributed evenly |
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| Who ran for president 5 time and wanted socialism instead of capitalism? |
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| What are 2 reasons why Socialism would not work? |
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1. Give up the American Dream
2. Many workers were immigrants. |
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| What happened April 5,1911? |
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| New York gathered to pay tribute to the girls who died. |
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| What was the name of the factory? |
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| Triangle shirt waste factory |
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| The Triangle shirt waste factory was a Better place to work because it was more moderen |
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| How many hours a day did the girls work, and how much did they get paid? |
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| Girls were on the 9th floor and owners were on the 10th. |
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| Speed was key in making the shirts. |
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| When did the fire start and how? |
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March 25,1911.
Dropped cigarette |
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| How many women were there? How many died? |
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| Half of the women that died were children. How many jumped from window? Fell down elevator shaft? Fell off fire escape? Burned? |
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| One jumped and survived, but later died, when did she die? |
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| What were the Shirtwaste kings charged for, and what were their real names? |
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Manslaughter.
Harris and Blank |
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| 30 new laws were passed by who to protect factory workers? |
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| Factory Safe Legislatures |
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