Posted by 4Chancey on September 28, 2011 at 10:36am
On this day we started the presentations on Chapter 6. We started, of course, with section 1.Ch. 6.1:-What caused the Industrial revolution to really take off in the late 1800's? An oil boom in the mid-1800's. Iron and steel were very popular as well. They would use steel to build railroads tracks and farming tools. Cheap labor for immigrants, Irish, Chinese, etc. Very large markets in cities, ie stock market. More natural resources like gold and silver. Government supporting, not taking over businesses; Laissez-fairre (leave alone in French). Caused businesses to boom. Entrepenuers.-What were some new inventions in the late 1800's and what affect did they have on people's lives? Electricity. Changed the nature of business. It made machines more popular. George Westinghouse made electricity safer. Thomas Edison made it better, and invented telegraph. He later invented a system for distributing power and electricity. Christopher Scholes invented the typewriter. Changed the world of work. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and it set up world-wide communications.Then we moved on to Section 2 of Chapter 6.-Why were many people upset with the railroads? The costs were quite expensive. The government misused the land grants. Fixing prices made farmers go into debt. The length of hauls were inexcusable.-What did the Grangers or government do to regulate the railroads? They were formed in 1867, demanded control over railroad industry. Every state had one branch and national membership suprassed 750,000 members. The pressed laws to protect their interest. They prohibited descrimination. The act of Interstate Commerce established the rights to the federal government to supervise the railroads.
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