HIS 142 1st Edition Lecture 2Outline of Last Lecture I. Industrializationa. Factors in Industrializationb. Geographic ExpansionII. UrbanizationIII. Impact of IndustrializationIV. People, Groups and Events to Considera. Native Americansb. FarmersOutline of Current Lecture I. 1890’sa. Andrew Carnegieb. Pullman StrikeII. Progressive EraCurrent LectureI. 1890’sFamers were finding themselves in high levels of debt and began to reorganize themselves by formal and informal organizations and by social networks.- Omaha Platform – the government was controlling railroads and farmers wanted everyone to have access to public transportationWorkers felt like they were no longer independent people who could provide form themselves and control their own labor. People like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller wanted to do things their own way. 35,000 workers died or got seriously injured each year from working long shifts in unsafe environments at industrial factories.Workers were also paid terribly considering all of the hard work they were doing. At thistime, there was no such thing as minimum wage, maximum hours, disability, or unemployment insurance. Workers had to collectively work together to form labor unions and strikes to try and improve their working conditions.a. Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie wanted things done his way and wanted to get rid of the worker’s labor union. He locked the workers out of the factories instead of These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.raising wages, creating better working environments, etc. (This was known as theHomestead Strike). He said that if the workers accepted the lower wages and gave up the union, they would be able to come back to work at the factory. Carnegie gave big donations to places like libraries and wanted to present himselfas a philanthropist but wouldn’t pay his worked higher wages and treated them very poorly.Something called an Injunction was created – if workers went on strike a judge could stop it because it was now considered illegal.b. Pullman Strike – workers were pleased with the conditions so they went on strikeand an injunction occurred. Workers were holding up the railroad system and were arrested because this was now considered illegal.The government was using its power to promote industrialization. The 1890’s was a decade of conflict and tension rising to the surface because of industrialization.II. Progressive Era (20th Century)A “progressive” is someone who believed the new world created left things that needed to be corrected. They were ok with industrialization. They wanted to reform rather than have a revolution  they wanted things to be safer and more consistent with American ideals such as freedom. They were mostly middle class. They wanted to get rid of thingssuch as prostitution, crimes and drugs and also wanted to clean up the streets and cities.They advocated for positive change in the United