1. The Farmer, the Worker,
and the Businessman

2. The Changing Economy

3. The Industrial Revolution
From Cottage Industry
To Factory

4. 1883 Chicago World’s Fair

6. Business Forms
 The sole proprietorship
 The partnership
 The franchise
 The chartered company
 The corporation
 Why the corporation?

7. The invention of the railroad made the
existing system inadequate

8. The Corporation
 Hierarchy
 Cost accounting
 Professional managers
 Shareholders
 Ownership through stock
 Vertical integration

9. Carnegie Steel

10. Inequality
 Horatio Alger
 Social Darwinism
 Bad working conditions
 “Deskilling”
 Extremes of wealth and poverty

11. The
Gilded
Age

12. “Robber Barons”

14. Immigration

16. Why did people
immigrate?

18. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses, yearning to breath free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door. “
~ The Statute of Liberty

21. Labor Unions

22. The Origins of the
Labor Union
 Unions in the early republic and antebellum era
 The Knights of Labor, 1869
 The American Federation of Labor, 1886
 Industrial Workers of the World, 1905
 Union differences:
 Skilled v. unskilled
 Moderates v. radicals

23. The Demands
 Moderates:
 Better wages
 Shorter hours
 Better benefits
 Better working conditions
 Radicals
 The overthrow of the capitalist system

24. Tactics
What tactics did labor unions have available to them?

25. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877

26. The Haymarket Riot, 1886

27. The Ludlow Massacre, 1914

28. Discussion
“Triumphant Democracy” and “What Does the
Working Man Want?”

29. The Populists

32. Farmers’ Solutions
 Education
 Cooperatives
 Political action
 Organizations
 The Grange
 The Farmer’s Alliance
 The Populist Party

34. The Populist Party
The Omaha Platform of 1892

35. What was the most famous
speech in American history?

36. William Jennings Bryan’s
“Cross of Gold” speech, 1896

38. The Farmers’ Movement and
the Workers’ Movement
What were some similarities and differences?