How did major industries(railroads,oil,steel) alter the average american way of life.

By xgayiver

  • 1850-1870

    . Over the 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s the transformation rippled outward to a host of other industries. Surveying the economic landscape, Wright found that factory production methods had overhauled “the manufacture of boots and shoes, of watches, musical instruments, clothing, agricultural implements, metallic goods generally, fire-arms, carriages and wagons, wooden goods, rubber goods.”

  • 1877

    Pullman wanted to avoid the types of workers who participated in the turbulent 1877 Railroad strike. The town was mainly built to house the employees but over time the plan did not work because the employees would complain about the cost of living there.

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

    n 1890 the federal government passed the Sherman Anti-trust Act which made trusts illegal (trusts are combinations of firms or corporations formed to limit competition and monopolize a market).

  • Sixteenth Amendment

    In 1913 the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified, allowing the federal government to collect a graduated income tax.