history alive slide lecture slides. the brooklyn bridge in new york city, 1883
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History Alive Slide Lecture Slides
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The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, 1883
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Andrew Carnegie
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Industry Key Person Significant Facts
Steel Andrew Carnegie
•1883-Brooklyn Bridge < symbol of American transition
• Bessemer process < turn iron into steel• Skyscrapers
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Pioneer Run, Pennsylvania
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John D. Rockefeller
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Industry Key Person Significant Facts
Oil John D. Rockefeller
• Standard Oil• 1st successful oil well drilled in 1859
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Industry Key Person Significant Facts
Railroad Cornelius Vanderbilt
• American Railway Assoc. divided the nation into 4 time zones
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“Captains of Industry” vs.
“Robber barons” – controlled the major industries of the
nation and much of American Society
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Social Darwinism – “survival of the fittest”• preserved the strong in society and
weeded out the weak• relieved any unwelcome guilt they may
have felt about poverty in society
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Gospel of Wealth – God’s chosen
• for those who found Social Darwinism distasteful
• religious rationale for wealth• Carnegie took this one step further by
saying that society’s fittest had both the talent and responsibility for deciding what was best for society.
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Laissez –faire economics – “to let one do”
• government’s proper role was to leave the economy alone
• government interference would disrupt the natural forces at work in the economy