The American Vision: Chapter 5, Industrialization

The following is a selection of articles that will relate to information in Chapter 5. These are just starting points. For the curious, each article leads to additional articles. Occasionally, an article will be listed in more than one category. Previous Chapter Next Chapter

1. Section 1: The Rise of Industry
   • The United States Industrializes
     • Gross National Product
     • Natural Resources
       • Pennsylvania Oil Discoveries
       • Kerosene
     • A Large Workforce
       • Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
   • New Inventions
     • Bell and the Telephone
       • Alexander Graham Bell
       • Bell Telephone System
     • Edison, Westinghouse, and Electricity
       • Thomas Edison
       • George Westinghouse
       • Nikola Tesla
       • Electric Lighting
     • Technology`s Impact
       • Developments in Textiles
       • Telegraph
   • Free Enterprise
     • Laissez-Faire
     • Morrill Tariff
2. Section 2: The Railroads
   • Linking the Nation
     • The Transcontinental Railroad
       • The Union Pacific
       • The Central Pacific
       • The Last Spike
     • Railroads Spur Growth
       • Cornelius Vanderbilt
     • Robber Barons
       • Jay Gould
       • Credit Mobilier Scandal
       • Great Northern Railroad
         • James J. Hill
3. Section 3: Big Business
   • The Rise of Big Business
   • Consolidating Industry
     • Andrew Carnegie and Steel
     • John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil
     • New Business Organizations
       • Trusts
       • Holding Company
       • J.P. Morgan
     • Selling the Product
       • Montgomery Ward
       • Sears, Roebuck & Co.
4. Section 4: Unions
   • Working in the United States
     • Early Unions
       • Trade Unions
       • Anarchists
   • Struggling to Organize
     • Railroad Strike of 1877
     • Knights of Labor
     • The Homestead Strike
     • The Pullman Strike
   • New Unions Emerge
     • The Rise of the American Federation of Labor
     • The IWW
     • Working Women