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 * Manjot Chahal**

15 : Industrial America in the Late Nineteenth Century (1865-1900) a) Corporate consolidation of industry b) Effects of technological development on the worker and workplace
 * Vertical Integration - buying/taking over competitors to your industry
 * Horizontal Integration - buying companies that sell products that your company uses
 * Trusts - used so trustees can guide your industry to success

The first major cause of the rapid industrialization was the mass amount of immigrants coming to America. The immigrants were willing to work for very low wages and this meant better profits for the company them working in. The more profits the company makes, the quicker it expands and becomes more powerful. The second cause was the mass amount of resources available to people in the far West. The coals, oils, and the advancement in technology allow for mass mining of certain metals. Technologies newly created needed something to fuel it and the oil and coal came into play. There were large amount of those resources so that help create more new companies and businesses which expanded the industries to the far West. The third cause was the capitalist economy which allows anyone to make profits, and there was no limit on how much a person can make or what tactics they could use to make their business or company better.

c) Labor and unions

Labor unions used many methods to organize and manage labor. Unionization was the process to form unions to bring change by having more supporters behind you. They attempted to bargain and negotiate with ownerships. One key effort was the attempt to exclude the use of women in the industrial world. Many believed that women would just get in the way of men and hurt themselves from trying to manufacture in the dangerous buildings. Men believed that women were less productive than men because they were weak. They also tried to limit the amount of hours and working conditions that laborers went had, along with providing better wages. While unions were successfully able to make some accomplishments such as child labor abolition and reduced work to eight hours per day, they were overall unsuccessful. Unions usually had no way of enforcing the laws that they proposed. They only represented a small percent of the entire labor population as well. They also went on strikes to get what they wanted but this led to violence in many cases. Scabs: people who break strikes. Unions also used violence and threats also. Protests were also done by Unions.

d) National politics and influence of corporate power

corporations influenced politics much.

e) Migration and immigration: the changing face of the nation The first major cause of the rapid industrialization was the mass amount of immigrants coming to America. The immigrants were willing to work for very low wages and this meant better profits for the company them working in.  alotta immigration happened and new people came to america. migration also took place in america such as people moving from one place.

f) Proponents and opponents of the new order, e.g., Social Darwinism and Social Gospel

During industrialization, many people gained wealth while others lost wealth. In social Darwinism, only the fittest survive while the weak die out. This was the same in the industrial cities throughout the nation. The business men who worked hard and made a lot of profit moved up the social class, while other like farmers lo customers and money leading to their downfalls. In the society of that time, people saw others as successful or the opposite. There was the belief that those who were poor were so because they were unfit to become successful while those who were rich were better fit to thrive than the poor and lower class people. The ones that became successful were able to adapt to the changing conditions and make the best of it.