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Industrialization and Corporate Consolidation
  1. Industrial growth: railroads, iron, coal, electricity, steel, oil, banks
  2. Laissez-faire conservatism
    • Gospel of Wealth
    • Myth of the “self-made man”
    • Social Darwinism; survival of the fittest
    • Social critics and dissenters
  3. Effects of technological development on worker/workplace
  4. Union movement
    • Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor
    • Haymarket, Homestead, and Pullman