GROWTH OF AN INDUSTRIAL GIANT 

I. Industrial Growth: An Overview  
       A. Railroads-Most important industry
           1. Huge growth and great wealth
           2. Significant Financial Problems for RR
       B. Other Major Industries
           1. Iron and Oil giants
           2. Telephone and Electricity
II. Huge Growth Problems-Competition and Monopolies
   A. The Railroad
       1. Expansion and Concentration went together
           a. large scale production + expense of machines
           b. downward price trend + Panic of 1893
       2. "Morganization"
   B. Steel-Carnegie
       1. Tactics for success
       2. US Steel
   C. Oil
       1. John D. Rockefeller
       2. Ruthless organizer    
       3. Sam Dodd crates the "Trust"
   D. Utilities & Retailing
III. Americans React to Big Business
   A. Reformers and Critics
       1. Henry George and the "Single Tax"
       2. Edward Bellamy
       3. Henry Demarest Lloyd
   B. Government Reaction to Big Business 
       1. Railroad Regulation
           a. States first
               1. Munn v. IL 1877
               2. Wabash Cases 1883
           b. Interstate Commerce Act 1887
       2. Sherman Anti-Trust Act-1890
   C. Union Movement
       1. Knights of Labor
           a. Terrency V Powderly 
           b. Strategy of Knights
       2. The American Federation of Labor
           a. Samuel Gompers
           b. organized skilled workers only
   D. Labor Militancy Rebuffed
IV. Whither America, Whither Democracy?
   A. Can Democracy and the Republic survive?
   B. How important is equality in wealth?
   C. What can America do?

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