HIST 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Vertical Integration, Protestant Work Ethic, Gustavus Franklin Swift
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People are becoming wealthier and becoming a global economic power. Growing and making a labor force moves elsewhere: railroads: steam revolution of the 1830"s-1850"s. Aided the development of other industries: causes of industrialization, steam power, railroads and the railroad builders. Federal govt. said if you as a railroad builder agreed to build a track they will give you 2 mile on either side as a payment. Gained a lot of property and you can do what you want. b. i. Time zones and territory// built their own clocks, set watch to noon. So people wouldn"t miss their train, but its hard to know when is noon. Day light savings also comes out of it. b. ii. Riches people in america who owned the railroads. Charles crocker/ collis huntington/ mark hopkins/ leland stanford. Controlled the train lines across the country, when a political candidate didn"t do what they wanted they could stop it. b. iii.
