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Industrial Revolution
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History
11th Grade
07/07/2009

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First Transcontinental

Railroad

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  • Marked the meeting of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads
  • During construction, The Union Pacific used Irish labor, While Central Pacific used Chinese labor
  • The connection of the railroads opened national markets and met growing economic need
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Knights of Labor

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  • Militant orgainization seeking solutions to labor problems
  • Wanted an eight-hour work day, termination of child labor, equal pay for equal work, and the elimination of private banks
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  • Period of new industrial era
  • America emerged as the world's leading industrial and agricultural producer
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Theory that wealth was based on the survival of the fittest;associated with Charles Darwin

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Robber Barons

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  • Leaders of large corporations
  • Often gained wealth through questionale business means
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John D. Rockefellar

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Founder of Standard Oil

Focused on philanthrophy

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Andrew Carnegie

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  • Steel and Iron Companys
  • His philanthrophic ventures included Carnegie Hall and public libraries
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J.P. Morgan

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Wall Street banker whose company financed railroads,banks,and insurance companies

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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  • Only legislation passed to limit immigration of any one group of people
  • Passed in response to the Chinese who settled in California after building the railroads
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Interstate Commerce Act
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  • Established the Interstate Commerce Commission in part to monitor discrimination within the railroad industry
  • Proibited rebates and pools and required railroads to publish their rates
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Progressivism

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Social,political, and economic reform that came as an American response to problems caused by industrialization,urbanization, and immigration.

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Sherman Antitrust Act

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  • Based on Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce
  • Corporate monopolies were exposed to federal prosecution if found to conspire in restraining trade
  • Supreme Court applied the act to both labor unions and corporations
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Populist Party

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  • Consisted mostly of farmers
  • Many of these ideas were later adopted by the Progressive Party
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Nativist

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  • people living in the US the longest who resented the newly arrived immigrants
  • political party called the Know-Nothings supported this position
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