Oct. 02- Oct. 06

Monday

Finishing group test/ Individual test

Tuesday

Industrial Revolution
- Child labor
- Factories were becoming a big deal\
- Cars
- How did growth of the steel industry influence the development of other industries?
- How did inventions and developments in the late 19^th century change the way people worked?
  - The industrial Revolution was a period of major industrialization that took place during the late 1700s and early 1800s
  - Natural resources, creative ideas and growing markets fueled an industrial boom
  - Technological developments of the late 19^th century paved the way for continued growth of American industry
  - Vocabulary words:
    - Entrepreneur: a person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture
    - Edwin L. Drake: used a steam engine to drill for oil
    - Bessemer process: a cheap and efficient process for making steel
    - Thomas Alva Edison: an American inventor and businessman; created first industrial research laboratory, electricity, and the light bulb
    - Christopher Sholes: invented the typewriter
    - Alexander Graham Bell: invented the telephone
    - What took America from an agricultural nation to a leading industrial power?
      - Many natural resources:
        Coal
        Iron Ore
        Steel
        Oil
Government giving businesses money
Growing cities
Cheap labor
New products
Oil Boom
- Drake used a steam engine to drill oil out of the ground in Pennsylvania in 1859
- Spread through Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Texas
- Refining industries started in Cleveland and Pittsburgh
- They refined the oil into kerosene and gasoline
- Standard Oil Company, Cleveland Ohio
  - Founded by John D. Rockefeller
  - On the shore of Lake Erie
  - Connected to the oil wells of Pennsylvania by railroad
  - Ohio wad rural but Cleveland was perfect for industrialization
  - Successful for both; Cleveland and the entire country
  - First environmental concerns/ pollution from the refinery
  - Air and water- put oil into the water- fire broke out on the water and destroyed boats, buildings, and ship yards
  - Bessemer Process
    - Coal and iron were readily available in the United States
    - Iron was a dense metal but soft and rusted
    - The Bessemer Process took out the air in the steel to take out the carbon making it stronger
    - Railroads were buying huge amounts of steel to build tracks
    - Brooklyn Bridge was build
    - Lots of Skyscrapers were build
    - Inventions Promote Change
      - Photography
      - Telegraph
      - Dynamite
      - Motion Picture
      - Reaper
      - Sewing Machine
      - Radio
      - Airplane
      - Electricity
        Edison established a research laboratory
        “ invented the light bulb
        “ invented a way to produce and distribute electricity
        Electricity..
        ..ran many machines’
        ..available in homes for time-saving appliances
        ..manufacturing plants could be located anywhere-no need to be next to a power source like a river- industries grew

Wednesday

5 inventions we talked about yesterday:
- Light bulb
- Telephone
- Airplane
- Telegraph
- Dynamite
- Henry Ford
  - Made the car
  - Vocabulary words:
    - Henry Ford’s Quadricycle
      - 1^st attempt of a car by henry Ford
Model T
- Build in 1909
- “legend”, Henry Ford’s 1srt vehicle
Principles of Scientific Management
- Frederic Winslow Taylor
- Came up with a new way of thinking which is more effective
Interchangeable Parts
- Certain sights can go anywhere
Assembly Line
- Lots of workers do the same job
- Faster, no waste of time
Division of Labor
- Everyone has their specific job
Mass Production
- A lot of things produces quickly
- Reading a text about Henry Ford
- Video about manufacturing labor; mass productions
- Group activity

Thursday

Typewriter and telephone
- Christopher Sholes invented the typewriter
- Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
- Both changed the way people worked in a office
- It created new jobs for women
- Consumers
  - People were spending money buying things
  - The more people purchased the more the things were being invented and produced
  - Cities were growing
  - Important questions:
  - Why did people, especially farmers, demand regulation of the railroads in the late 19^th century
  - Why were attempts at railroad regulation often unsuccessful
  - Vocabulary:
    - Transcontinental Railroad- a railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the united states
    - George M. Pullman- built a factory where luxury sleeper cars for the trains were built; known as the Pullman car
    - Credit Mobilier- a construction company formed by the Union Pacific Railroad to fraudulently (=stealing) skim off railroad profits for themselves
    - Munn v. Illinois- Supreme Court ruled in favor of the farmers and consumers and established the right of government to regulate private industry to serve the public interest
    - Interstate Commerce Act- a law that established the federal government’s right to supervise railroad activities
    - Age of the railroads
      - Railroads made traveling easy and moving west possible for both businesses and people
      - The government gave the railroads huge land grants and loans
      - Picture of the transcontinental railroad 1869
      - The Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads built the transcontinental railroad
      - By 1890, there was over 190,000 miles of railroad track in the united states
      - The railroad made the “American dream” possible- adventure, land, and a fresh start
      - Immigrants working on the railroad
        Union Pacific employed Irish immigrants and out-of-work Civil War veterans
        Central Pacific Employed Chinese Immigrants
        Working conditions were Awful
        Native American attacks
        Accidents
        Disease-disabled and killed the workers
        Over 2,000 people died and 20,000 injured
Asian immigrants earned less money than the white workers
White workers received $40-60 a month plus free meals
Chinese were paid $35 a month and supplied their own food
Dug tunnels by hand through granite mountains
Worked while surrounded by walls of snow
Many were buried in avalanches or froze to death
Video about railroad

Friday

Toady’s lesson with Mr. Bruns
New Forum Post Leaders
Going through the daily summary
Talking about Extra Credits
Video about Henry Ford

Blogs

Oct. 02- Oct. 06

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