University:
York University
Course:
HIST 2600 | United States History
Academic year:

2018
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81

Pages:

2
Author:

Nick T.

Muckrakers: Called by TDR, meant to expose the bad of a company or corporation. Progressivism: Lasted from the mid-1890s through WWI. Samuel McClure Magazine: With all the cheese. Business: Booming during this time. Henry Ford: Built luxury and racing cars, then made the Model T less expensive and more profitable. Federal Aid Roads Act: States given complete control of road system. Mergers: Became more popular. Rockefeller still owned 85% of oil industry. Oligopoly: Multiple industries, few corporations. United Fruit and U.S. Steel: Worked abroad. Banks: Played a bigger role with mergers. Production Workers' Well-being: Research laboratories became a thing, factories had over 250 employees, increase in automation. Frederick Winslow Taylor: "Raises" based on efficiency, specializing. Triangle Shirtwaist Company: Fire in 1911 brought attention to workers' conditions (46 deaths). Labor: Immigration soared. RFD Routes: Allowed farmers to get a better idea about marketing. Farmers' Problems: Land costs rose, tenants instead of owners, diseases like hookworms. Rockefeller Sanitation Commission: Handled sanitation issues. Division Between: Owners and workers. Single Women: Outnumbered married women 7 to 1. Women graduating college more than men. Earnings were still very bad. A.A. women continued to work after marriage. Because women worked more, there was more divorce. Pg 295. IWW - Industrial workers of the world. TDR - Meat inspection Act + AFL - American Federation of Labor Taft W. Wilson Author who tore Standard Oil Company: - Women wanted to work. Ashcan School.