A New Industrial Age Chapter 6 A New

A New Industrial Age Chapter 6

A New Industrial Age Who invented the typewriter? Who organized coal miners, their wives, and their children to fight for better working conditions?

A New Industrial Age Who is the Scottish immigrant who made a fortune in steel and donated most of his profits? Who is the railroad-car mogul who built a town to house his employees?

A New Industrial Age Who opened a way for worldwide communications with the invention of the telephone? Who perfected the incandescent light bulb, created an electrical power system, and organized power plants?

A New Industrial Age Who developed a cheap and effective way to make steel? Who first successfully used a steam engine to remove oil from beneath the earth’s surface?

A New Industrial Age Who ran the American Railway Union and later ran for president several times as a socialist? Who created trusts and was criticized as a robber baron while serving as head of the Standard Oil Company?

A New Industrial Age • How did the abundance of natural resources help the growth of industry in the U. S. in second half of 19 th century? • How did new inventions help the growth and what were their effects? • How did the growth of urban population contribute to the industrialization of the U. S. ? • How did govt. policies toward business and industry effect industrialization?

A New Industrial Age • How did the 19 th century industrialists encourage AND discourage competition in the following ways? – Employee management techniques – Monopolies – Trusts