A Changes in Daily Life 1 Daily

A. Changes in Daily Life

1. Daily Life in 1865

2. Investing in Technology

B. New Forms of Energy

1. Drake Strikes Oil

2. Edison, a Master of Invention

3. Electricity is Improved

3. Electricity’s Impact on Business and Daily Life

C. Advances in Communications

1. The Telegraph

2. The Telephone

D. Railroads Create a National Network

1. The Transcontinental Railroad

2. Railroad Developments

3. Railroads and Time Zones

4. Railroads and Industry

E. The Bessemer Process

Bessemer Process

1. The Brooklyn Bridge

II. The Growth of Big Business

Rockefeller and Carnegie

Robber Barons or Captains of Industry

John D. Rockefeller

2. Carnegie’s “Gospel of Wealth”

B. Social Darwinism

C. Business on a Larger Scale

D. Gaining a Competitive Edge

1. New Market Structures

2. Carnegie Steel

3. The Standard Oil Trust

4. Government Response

III. Industrialization and Workers

A. The Growing Work Force

B. Factory Work

1. Increasing Efficiency

2. The Division of Labor

3. The Work Environment

C. Working Families

IV. The Great Strikes

A. Gulf between Rich and Poor

B. The Rise of Labor Unions

1. Early Labor Unions

2. The Knights of Labor

Founders of the Knights of Labor

3. The American Federation of Labor

4. The Wobblies

5. Reaction of Employers

C. Railroad Workers Organize

1. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877

2. Debs and the American Railway Union

D. Strikes Rock the Nation

1. Haymarket, 1886

2. Homestead, 1892

3. Pullman, 1894