Chapter 2 Section 3

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Andrew Carnegie

Manufactured steel

Eugene V. Debs

Formed the American Railroad Union 

Samuel Gompers

Leader of the American Federation of Labor 

Mary Harris Jones

Organized the United Mine Workers

John D. Rockefeller

Ownded the Standard Oil Company 

Supporters of Social Darwinism 

Believed that government should not interfere with business because riches were a sign of god’s favor.

Working Conditions

For factories in the late 1880s were unhealthy and dangerous

Children

Left school to work in the factories in order to support their families

Industrial growth in the US

This led to a concentration of wealth in the hands of a small number of industry leaders. 

Employers 

Fought the power of unions by firing union organizers

The Federal Government

Responded to large strikes by using federal troops to end strikes

Vertical and Horizontal Integration 

Strategies that helped Andrew Carnegie control the steel industry. 

Sherman Anti-trust act

Made it illegal to form a trust that would interfere with free trade

American Federation of Labor

Focused on collective bargaining between labor and management.

Industrial workers of the world 

Were radical unionists and socialists. 

Arbitration

A method to settle workplace disputes by an approved judge.