Industrial Development - Chapter 18 Lecture 9.24.18

Chapter 18: Industrial Development Textbook (Studying) 9/24/18 Abundance of natural resources, also labor. Telegraph and telephone were also invented. Railroads linked cities. → Tariffs made their produce uncompetitive. Govt gifted Manufacturers w/ anything they needed to promote economic growth. Not regulated. Entrepreneurs flourished. Some called them captains, others called them robber barons. Concentrated in the north and the east. West had resources and South was still recovering. The railroad was the largest resource of urbanization. America's first big business. American and European investors both invested in railroads. They even received $ from local and state governments. Cornelius Vanderbilt. Established time zones. Westward of Nebraska Central Union Pacific. Promontory, Utah. Railroad became incredibly competitive. An Industrial Empire: → Steel was now stronger and buildings could be taller. Carnegie and Steel Pittsburgh = Center of Steel production. & Andrew Carnegie = Ruler of Steel. Vertical integration. philanthropy, then sold US company sold to Carnegie. Kerosene lamps opened the evenings to activity. Titusville, PA - drilled for oil. Rockefeller: high quality + low prices. Standard Oil company - also vertically integrated. trust would help profits and competition ceased. US patent office was busy af. Thomas Edison = phonograph + lightbulb. Tesla: alternating-current motor. The Sellers: "Science of marketing". Department Store development. Working men, women and children: Western workers made more than Eastern. Women started taking on more important jobs. Made a little more than half of men. Culture of work: AFL - united National Labor Union. After he died, Union Stephen and Knights of Labor. End child labor. AFL only skilled workers. Samuel Gompers Haymarket Riot Chapter 21: America looks outward Expansion was different, because islands were more so used for naval bases and commercial trade routes. Catching the Spirit of Empire: A sense of isolationism spread and Americans didn't want to get involved in foreign affairs. However, Americans were still interested in broadening its borders. END OF FRONTIER: 1890, business was blooming... too good. Overseas markets Imperialism - Americans wanted land overseas. Biogenetic law would argue Anglo-Saxon superiority. Josian Strong wanted white people everywhere. Foreign Policy Approaches: USA tried not to get too issued with Europe. N/S Americas: Monroe Doctrine. William Henry Seward wanted America to be Yuuuge! including the west shores of Asia. Acquired Alaska as a chance to "sandwich" Canada. Saw Asia as a marketplace goldmine. Hamilton Fish was an avid expansionist under Ulysses S. Grant. Treaty of Washington = repaired relations with Great Britain. They had to repair Alabama. Grant had the balls to say that the U.S. will not be transferring land to Europe. James G. Blaine wanted to establish commercial relations. Harrison and Blaine got rejected with their shot at hemisphere relations, but it would open doors to new opportunities. McKinley Tariff would be reciprocated, and would increase an export with flour, grain, meat, iron, and machinery. Grover Cleveland was a bit more aggressive with his Latin America relations and almost started a war. → This showed that we have balls and shouldn't be fucked with. The lure of Hawaii and Samoa. "The Crossroads of the Pacific." = Helped Asian Markets. Queen Liliʻuokalani = greater power to Hawaiians. Treaty annexed Hawaii to the United States. Americans were worried that Hawaii was gonna cause a civil war. → Cleveland dismissed tariff and Hawaii was its own place again. The New Navy (1890's) US had no navy. Needed a navy to defend Caribbean and the Pacific. Alfred Thayer Mahan + Ben Tracy = new navy minds. Argued that industrialism needed protection. Argued in Congress to push for stronger navy. War with Spain: America got a power boner from that W, son! A war for principle: Cuban vs Spain: Spain was raping them gaucho. Cubans came to NYC to sway public opinion and raise money. → A general was sent and basically started a concentration camp. Yellow journalism = newspapers covering issues just to circulate better. 2 → Cleveland wanted neutrality, McKinley wanted the insurgents to win. Remember the Maine and to Hell w/ Spain! Teller Amendment - pledged that US had no intention of annexing Cuba. "A Splendid little War" = 10 weeks later, it was over. US's army was more accustomed to fighting Indians. "Smoked Yankees" Most black troops were posted in the west. → Still experienced racism! Bro... The Course of War: Rough Riders