HIST-1410 Final: HIST1410 Final Study Guide
4 Feb 2020
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The rise of industrial america: the corporation and american society, the singular importance of andrew carnegie as bureaucrat, inventor, investor, Entrepreneur, and innovator: the phenomenon of the u. s. steel corporation. Ingredients of industrialization (essentially stacked the deck in favor of the u. s. becoming industrialized) rich environment (rivers, mineral deposits, land, resources, etc. ), sympathetic and supportive government at local, state, and federal levels (while simultaneously remaining deferential to private ownership), talented business leaders (carnegie, hill, rockefeller, etc. Steel workers homestead one of the places where open hearth furnace was being exclusively used in steel production (consequences for skilled laborers); lockout initiated and workers strike (pennsylvania militia and pinkerton detectives called in by. Frick many people wounded in violence and some killed) Rise of the social settlement movement: william graham sumner social darwinism; what social classes owe. [background:1865, 1868, 1870: passage of 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the u. s.
