Chapters are like computer mice- they are small and numerous (this title is like a c418 song title) Flashcards
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Water shipping
James J. Hill
Railroads. James J. Hill Company.
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Steel
John D. Rockefeller
Standard oil Company. Standard Oil Trust.
James Buchanan Duke
American Tobacco Company.
New South
Tobacco. Textiles.
Danville, Virginia. Greensbourogh+Charlotte, North Carolina.
John Pierpont Morgan
Mergers.
United States Steel Corporation. Carnegie Steel. First Billion dollar corporation.
H. J. Heinz
Pittsburgh. No Sunday advertising.
Alexander Graham Bell
1876
Thomas Alva Edison
Menlo Park, New Jersey
lights (2x), mic, power
Roscoe Conkling
In charge of opperation that skimmed Money from NY customs house.
Chester A. Arthur did the ground work.
Stalwarts
High tariffs, hard money, spoils system.
Half-breeds
Low tariffs, soft money, unspoiled system
James A. Garfield
Ohio. Republican. Half-Breed.
Shot by Charles Guiteau
Chester A Arthur
New York. Republican. Stalwart (ground work in skimming from NY customs)
Tried to lower tariff, but it lead to the Mongrel Tariff.
Pendleton Act established Civil Service Commission.
1884
Republican James G. Blaine lost to Democrat Gov. NY Grover Cleveland.
Mugwumps.
Interstate Commerce Act.
1888
Republican Benjamin Harrison beat Democrat Grover Clevland.
Benjamin Harrison appointed James. G. Blaine, who was very ineffective and this ruined everything, to be Secretary of State.
Billion Dollar Congress.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act. 1890. Vague.
McKinley Tariff
Way too high tariff ruined lives
Knights of Labor
Secret society of skilled and unskilled ppl. from multiple professions.
Terrence V. Powderly
700,000 @ height.
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers.
Split from Knights of Labor for skilled craftsmen.
8-hour days standardized.
Haymarket Riot
Chicago factory workers demanded 8-hour days.
Police were bombed and 11 ppl. died.
Homestead Strike
Carnegie Steel Company employees in Homestead, Pennsylvania fought Henry C. Frick’s guards.
Eugene V. Debs
Founder of American Railway Union.
Leader of Pullman Strike.
Pullman Strike
Lower wages lead to Eugene V. Debs encouraging people to sabotage Pullman by taking the cars out of trains and leaving them by the wayside.
The Pullman ppl. were fired making it general.
Generality lead to looting.
Cleveland put an end to all of it to save the postal service.
