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Books in America's Industrial Society in the 19th Century series

  • Oil, Steel, and Railroads: America's Big Businesses in the Late 1800's

    Jesse Jarnow

    Hardcover (Rosen Publishing Group, Aug. 1, 2003)
    The expansion of steel, oil, and the railroad industries during and after the Civil War helped America to grow and change. Millions of people were immigrating to the United States from Europe and Asia, altering the size and face of the population. Looking for work and for a better life, they found a country in the midst of an economic revolution. Owners of new, big businesses became a new wealthy class; their workers, many of whom were the same immigrants who came looking for a better life, became the new working poor.
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  • America's Industrial Society in the 19th Century Set

    Bernadette Brexel, Suzanne J Murdico, Bill Stites, Holly Cefrey, Jesse Jarnow

    Hardcover (Rosen Publishing Group, Dec. 1, 2004)
    The American Industrial Revolution came at a time when our young nation was ripe for growth and change. The government was looking for ways to expand the country's economic growth by turning to business as a way to prosper. Average citizens were looking to expand their own earning potential. It was a time when many Americans became rich. America changed from a rural, agrarian economy to one that relied on urban industrial power. This series explores the many faces of America's growth during this turbulent era, from the building of the railroads to the production of oil, coal mining, and large-scale farming that would feed the new industrial society to the laws necessary to control big businesses' rule over workers' rights. Using exciting primary source materials, these books provide important information and fascinating insight into the years of the robber barons and government cronyism, unionization and farmers' rights, and urban sprawl and tenement slums.
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  • The Sherman Antitrust ACT: Getting Big Business Under Control

    Holly Cefrey

    Paperback (Rosen Publishing Group, Jan. 1, 2004)
    As big business trusts proliferated in the last 1800s, a number of state governments, especially those in the South and West, passed laws to regulate corporate behavior. Large corporations got around the regulations by establishing their businesses in states that did not have these laws. In an effort to put a stop to corporations circumventing the states' laws, the federal government passed the Sherman Antitrust Act, which was the first federal antitrust law, and called for federal action against any restraint of trade.
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  • The Rise of American Capitalism: The Growth of American Bank

    J T Moriarty

    Library Binding (Rosen Pub Group, Aug. 1, 2003)
    Examines the economic history of the United States, from the paper money issued during the American Revolution through the rise of big business after the Civil War, and the effort to create a stable monetary system.
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  • Possibilities and Problems in America's New Urban Centers: The Rise of Cities

    Suzanne J. Murdico

    Library Binding (Rosen Pub Group, Oct. 1, 2003)
    Discusses the problems faced in the cities during the Industrial Revoultion, including over-crowding, poor working conditions, and low wages.
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  • Telegraph and Telephone Networks: Ground Breaking Developments in American Communications

    Jesse Jarnow

    Library Binding (Rosen Pub Group, April 1, 2003)
    Examines the history of communication in the United States, particularly the technological advances of the late nineteenth century that improved transmission speed from weeks or months to hours or minutes.
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  • Railroads and Steamships: Important Developments in American Transportation

    Suzanne J Murdico

    Library Binding (Rosen Pub Group, April 1, 2003)
    Looks at the history of transportation in the United States, discussing the need for railroads and steamships and how they impacted the nation.
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  • The Knights of Labor and the Haymarket Riot: The Fight for an Eight-hour Workday

    Bernadette Brexel

    Library Binding (Rosen Pub Group, Oct. 1, 2003)
    Examines the early history of America's labor movement in the nineteenth century, particularly the fight for an eight-hour work day, and its effects on American business and workers.
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  • The Populist Party: A Voice for the Farmers in the Industrialized Society

    Bernadette Brexel

    Library Binding (Rosen Pub Group, Oct. 1, 2003)
    Examines the history of the Populist Party in the United States, which was formed in 1892 to represent the needs of working-class citizens and bring about reform in government, big business, and labor laws.
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  • The Republican Party in the Late 1800s: A Changing Role for American Government

    Bill Stites

    Library Binding (Rosen Pub Group, Aug. 1, 2003)
    Examines the struggles of the Republican Party as it attempted to deal with the defeated South while maintaining its hold on the White House, and discusses the rise of machine politics and administrations from Grant to McKinley.
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  • Problems and Progress in American Politics: The Growth of the Democratic Party in the Late 1800s

    Jason Porterfield

    Library Binding (Rosen Pub Group, Dec. 2, 2003)
    Traces the history of the Democratic Party from its founding by Thomas Jefferson in 1792, to the end of the nineteenth century, focusing on how issues of the day affected the choices of Democratic presidential candidates and campaigns, as well as election results.Traces the history of the Democratic Party from its founding in 1792 to the end of the nineteenth century, focusing on how issues of the day affected the party's choices of presidential candidates and campaigns, as well as election results.
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  • The Interstate Commerce Act: The Government Takes Control of Trade Between the States

    Holly Cefrey

    Library Binding (Rosen Pub Group, Sept. 1, 2003)
    Discusses the growth of commerce in the United States during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the need for some kind of regulation of interstate commerce, and the development of laws toward this end.
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