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CHAPTER 20 | BIG BUSINESS AND ORGANIZED LABOR | OVERVIEW

CHAPTER TIMELINE
1866	National Labor Union formed
1869	Completion of the first transcontinental railroad
1869	Knights of Labor organized
1870	Standard Oil of Ohio incorporated
1876	Telephone patented
1877	Great Railroad Strike
1879	Incandescent light bulb invented
1879	Terrence Powderly became president of the Knights of Labor
1882	First electric current supplied to eighty-five customers in New York City
1882	Creation of the Standard Oil Trust
1886	Haymarket Affair
1886	Founding of the American Federation of Labor
1889	Andrew Carnegie’s “Gospel of Wealth”
1892	Homestead Strike
1894	Pullman Strike
1901	U.S. Steel Corporation formed
1905	IWW founded

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to:

Evaluate the economic impact of the Civil War.

Understand the important factors in the growth of the economy in the late nineteenth century.

Discuss the role of the major entrepreneurs like Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan.

Account for the limited growth of unions in this period and the success of the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor.

Describe the major labor confrontations in this period.

Explain the limited appeal of socialism for American labor.