Evolution of Industrial Systems in the United States
Second Industrial System
- Who: United States
- What: Massive phase of rapid production of basic goods and goods for industry – especially steel
- When: 1870-1914
- Where: United States
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Third Industrial System
- Who: U.S.
- What: Mass production of basic goods and goods for industry and unnecessary consumer goods
- When: 1920s
- Where: U.S.
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Post-Industrial System
- Who: United States
- What: Period of globalization – having stuff made in places outside the U.S. – beginning of transnational companies
- When: After Vietnam
- Where: U.S., the rest of the world
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Pullman Strike
- Who: Pullman workers
- What: Nationwide railroad strike in the United States after Pullman increased working hours, cut wages and didn’t decrease the cost of living
- When: 1894
- Where: Chicago
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“Psychological wages”
- Who: Southern White Americans, coined by W.E.B. DuBois
- What: Poor whites feeling superior to poor blacks during Civil Rights era for simply not being associated with poor blacks white – whites saw this as a benefit
- When: 1890s during Jim Crow segregation in the South
- Where: Southern U.S.
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Progressives
- Who: Progressives were people who lived mainly in the cities, were college educated, and believed that government could be a tool for change.
- What: Progressives were people who lived mainly in the cities, were college educated, and believed that government could be a tool for change.
- When: 1890s-1920s
- Where: Cities in the U.S.
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Spanish-American War
- Who: The US, Cuba, and Spain
- What: Cuba’s fighting Spain for independence. The USS Maine is in Cuba and then it sinks because of a boiler issue. American thinks it was Spain and joins Cuba to fight against Spain. They win, get Cuba but give them nominal independence.
- When: 1989
- Where: Cuba
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Andrew Mellon
- Who: Secretary of Treasury for three presidencies (Harding, Coolidge and Hoover). He cut taxes and believed in trickle-down economics, enforced the prohibition and overall was extremely successful in helping the U.S. financially. After the market crash in 1929, President Hoover lost faith in Mellon, so he resigned in 1932
- When: 1921-1932
- Significance: Mellon’s policies helped the American economic boom of the 1920s
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CIO
- Who: Created by John L. Lewis – made for skilled workers
- What: Congress/Committee of Industrial Organizations – federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the U.S.
- When: 1935 – 1955
- Where: Founded in Pittsburgh
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New Deal System
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Birmingham, Alabama campaign
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Tet Offensive
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Students for a Democratic Society
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Watergate
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Paris Accords, 1973
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Transnational corporation
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Arms race with USSR
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