West & North Study Guide

Andrew Carnegie

• Steel

• Gospel of Wealth

• “Rags to riches”

John D. Rockefeller

• Oil

• Horizontal and vertical integration

J. Piermont Morgan

• Born to wealth

• Financier and banker

• Bought Carnegie and made U.S Steel Corporation- the country’s first billion dollar firm

Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Railroads and shipping

Captain of Industry

Good

Robber Baron

Bad

Factors of Industrialization

• Larger workforce

• Inventions and innovations

• Laissez-faire

• Natural resources

New York State Tenement House Act of 1901

• Outward facing windows

• Indoor bathrooms

• Proper ventilation

• Fire safeguards

Ellis Island

1892-1954

Angel Island

1910-1940

Old immigrants

1835-1870

New immigrants

1880-1920

Urbanization

• Disease

• Unsanitary

• Overcrowding

• Tenements

• Pollution

• Poverty

• Crime

• Fire