WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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He welcomed competitors because he knew competition was beneficial to consumers.
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He was a strong supporter of government regulation in business.
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He was a proponent of trust-busting and opposed any one company having too much control over an industry.
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He supported the theory of Social Darwinism.
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Detailed explanation-1: -’ John D. Rockefeller stated his own case even more simply. ‘The American beauty rose, ’ he said, ‘can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up about it. This is not an evil tendency in business.
Detailed explanation-2: -"The American Beauty Rose can be produced in all its splendor only by sacrificing the early buds that grow up around it, ” he said. Rockefeller wasn’t very popular with most Americans. Often he behaved as if he were a king.
Detailed explanation-3: -Unions were not successful because they did not have enough members, legislators would not pass effective laws, and the courts supported the business owners. Practice Describe three ways in which industrialization changed America in the late 1800s.
Detailed explanation-4: -Social Darwinists believe in “survival of the fittest”-the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better. Social Darwinism has been used to justify imperialism, racism, eugenics and social inequality at various times over the past century and a half.