Test 1 Flashcards
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What were the five phases of the Industrial Revolution?
Resources, Inventions, Transportation, Labor, Friendly Federal Government
What were the main resources of the industrial revolution?
Coal, Oil, Iron Ore, Electricity
What was the influence of Coal in the industrial revolution?
Allowed for steam, heat, and steel production
There was a mining revolution, coal comes from Appalachia
What was the influence of Oil in the industrial revolution?
“Blood of industrial revolution”
Source of fuel for engines and ships
Came from Texas, Kansas, Alaska, Oklahoma
Rockefeller Tycoon
What was the influence of Iron Ore in the industrial revolution?
Steel was the most important product of this age for use in skyscrapers and ships
Andrew Carnegie Tycoon
Was was the influence of Electricity in the industrial revolution?
Light, revolutionized lifestyle, “conquered the night”
What were major inventions of the industrial revolution?
Vulcanized rubber by goodyear
Telegraph/gram by Samuel Morse
Typewriter
Automobile
What was the influence of vulcanized rubber during the industrial revolution?
Reinvented the wheel
What was the influence of the telegraph/gram during the industrial revolution?
Railway industry, shipping; telephone by Alexander graham bell
What was the influence of the typewriter during the industrial revolution?
Book publishing
What was the influence of the automobile during the industrial revolution?
Not very influential then, but would become very popular
What was the major transportation aspect of the industrial revolution?
led to time zones, life no longer centers around the harvest now centers on the amount of time you give your employer
very expensive
Public ownership of stock
public accountability, separation of ownership and management
How did the expansion of the PA railroad affect the industrial revolution?
led to time zones, life no longer centers around the harvest now centers on the amount of time you give your employer
Public ownership of stock, separation of ownership and management
Who was Jay Gould?
ruthless railroad owner, financial strongarm people
What did the labor shift look like in the industrial revolution?
Rural to Urban shift
Lifestyle change, technology change allowed less people in farms
Native born americans leaving farms, and millions of european and jewish immigrants
How did the federal government influence the industrial revolution?
Would adopt a laissez faire policy expect for occasionally helping and investing in businesses, like the railroads
Define Laissez faire policy and the general economic outlook of the industrial revolution.
Separation of government from a private sector
Southern Property owners expected a ruling class that would control slaves, but this didn’t happen
Access to wealth is free and unfederated
The negatives of capitalism would later cause massive social issues (don’t care about anything but the dollar)
The general population could afford to participate in economy through stocks
What was the book Hands Off by Adams Smith?
book on Laissez faire economics, a reaction to his era
used to be called mercantilism which was built upon the development of riches for the king, transition to capitalism, property owners, and wealthy individuals
What were the major societal consequences of the industrial revolution?
Mass production, consumer productions, greater standard of living
Eventual exhaustion, weren’t living up to american ideals
How did mass production of consumer products influence society in the industrial revolution?
Brands became powerful, consumer orientated products
Brand Loyalship
Sort of democracy
Expectation of abundance
Cutthroat competition and advertisement
List some popular brands during the industrial revolution.
Ivory Soap, Quaker Oats, Kodak Film, Coca Cola, Budweiser, Ketchup
What caused eventual societal exhaustion from the industrial revolution?
Losing freedom as becoming more modern, social policy and morality was not keeping up with modernization
1: Laissez faire gov could not control for poor capitalist conditions
Poor industrial situations, question if business regulation was needed
2: Individualism was threatened by growth of corporations
US Steel, Railroads monopoly
List the things that caused the progressive movement to grow.
Grew out of a response to
1: Industrialization and social consequence
2: Immigration
3: Concentration of corporate power
4: Widening of class divisions
Describe early progressives.
Reformers- not revolutionaries but felt the american system was going the wrong way
Not a united movement
White, Native born, middle class