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TERMS & NAMES
For each term or name below, write a sentence explaining its
connection to the industrialization of the late 19th century.
1. Thomas Alva Edison 6. Andrew Carnegie
2. Alexander Graham Bell 7. Sherman Antitrust Act
3. George M. Pullman 8. Samuel Gompers
4. transcontinental 9. American Federation of
railroad Labor (AFL)
5. Interstate Commerce Act 10. Mary Harris Jones
MAIN IDEAS
Use your notes and the information in the chapter to answer
the following questions.
The Expansion of Industry (pages 436–439)
1. How did the growth of the steel industry influence the
development of other industries?
2. How did inventions and developments in the late 19th
century change the way people worked?
The Age of the Railroads (pages 442–446)
3. Why did people, particularly farmers, demand regulation of
the railroads in the late 19th century?
4. Why were attempts at railroad regulation often unsuccessful?
Big Business and Labor (pages 447–455)
5. Why were business leaders such as John D. Rockefeller
called robber barons?
6. Why did the South industrialize more slowly than the
North did?
7. Why did workers form unions in the late 19th century?
8. What factors limited the success of unions?
CRITICAL THINKING
1. USING YOUR NOTES In a chart like the one shown, list what
you see as the overall costs and benefits of industrialization.
2.
RECOGNIZING BIAS In 1902 George Baehr, head of the
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company, said, “The rights
and interests of the labor man will be protected and cared for
not by the labor agitators but by the Christian men to whom
God in his infinite wisdom has given the control of the proper-
ty interests of the country.” What bias does this statement
reveal? How does Baehr’s view reflect Social Darwinism?
3. IDENTIFYING PROBLEMS Consider the problems that late-
19th-century workers faced and the problems that workers
face today. How important do you think unions are for present-
day workers? Support your answer.
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VISUAL SUMMARY
INDUSTRIALIZATION
Costs Benefits
BIG BUSINESS BOOMS
1880–1914
IMMEDIATE CAUSES
• expansion of railroads in late 1800s
• cheap labor supply provided by
increasing immigration
• burst of technological innovation
• new management techniques and
business strategies
• investment capital
• abundant natural resources
• harnessing of early power sources
such as water and coal
• invention of the steam engine
• construction of roads, canals, and
railroads in early 1800s
LONG-
TERM CAUSES
IMMEDIATE EFFECTS
• growth of large corporations
• new and plentiful manufactured goods
• poor working conditions in factories
and sweatshops
• increased labor activism
LONG-TERM EFFECTS
• regional economies are linked
• labor movement wins shorter workweek