MOnday- rest of test
Tuesday-
Chapter 6
Industrial Revolution
Important questions!!!
How did growth of the steel industry influence the development of other industries?
How did inventions and developments in the late 19th century change the way people worked?
Late 1700s and early 1800
Natural resources, creative ideas, and growing markets fueled an industrial boom
Technology advancements
Vocab
Entrepreneur-someone that starts own business
Edwin L. Drake-Used a steam engine to drill for oil
Bessemer process- a cheap and efficient process for making steel
Thomas Alva Edison- first industrial research laboratory, electricity, lightbulb
Christopher Sholes-Invented typewriter
Alexander Graham bell- Invented phone
Things that took us from agricultural-industrial’
Natural resources
Coal
Iron
Steel
Oil
2. Government giving businesses money
3. Growing cities
4. Cheap labor
5. New products
Oil Boom
Edwin Drake used a Steam Engine to drill oil in Pen.
Spread to kentucky, ohio, illinois, indiana, texas
Refineries started in Cleveland and pittsburgh to make oil for lamps
Standard Oil Company
Founded my John Rockefeller
On the shore of Lake Erie(water power)
Connected to the oil wells of Pennsylvania by railroad
Ohio was rule but Cleveland was perfect for industrialization
Successful for Cleveland and country
First environmental concerns
Pollution from refinery
Pollution in water
Bessemer process
Coal and Iron were readily available
Iron was Dense metal but soft and rusted
The Bessemer Process took out the air in the steel and made it stronger
Railroads were being built so they needed huge amounts of steel for tracks
Brooklyn Bridge”Wonder of the world”
Skyscrapers- steel could bear the weight of the buildings
Inventions promote Change
Photography
Telegraph
Dynamite
Motion Picture
Reaper
Sewing Machine-Singer!!!!
Radio
Airplane
Electricity
Thomas Edison
Lightbulb
Produce a way to produce and distribute electricity
It was important because
It ran machines
Saving appliances
Manufacturing plants did not need to be by water
Wednesday-The collage guy is here!!!
Vocab
Henry Ford's Quadricycle-simple car, no frame, 4 bike wheels
Model T-First successfully mass produced vehicle
Principles of Scientific Management- way to streamline production- Frederic Winslow Taylor
Interchangeable Parts-uniform parts and identically made so you can take it from different ones
Assembly line-arrangement of machines that one person does one thing the entire time and it moves down the line
Division of Labor- each person has one job to do
Mass Production-many objects made in little time
Read paper
Watch a video
Thursday-
Typewriter and Telephone
Christopher Scholes
Alexander Graham bell
Changed how people worked in offices
Created jobs for women
Consumers
People were spending money
The more people bought-the more things were invented
growing cities
This adds up to more production
Important questions
Why did people, especially farmers, demand regulations of the railroads in the late 19th century?
They were over taxing them
Why were attempts at railroad regulation often unsuccessful?
They were too powerful
Vocab
Transcontinental railroad- a railroad like linking the Atlantic and Pacific coast of the United States-Union Pacific (omaha)and Central(Sacramento) were the main companies (met in Utah)
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 skim off railroad profits for themselves.
Munn v. Illinois- Supreme court ruled in favor of the farmers and consumers and establishing 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 east and moving west possible for both businesses and people
The government gave the railroads huge land grants and loans
The central pacific and Union Pacific railroads built the transcontinental railroad
By 1890, there was over 190,000 miles of railroad track in the Unites States
The railroad made the “American Dream” possible- adventure, land, and a fresh start
Immigration 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
-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 nutid n avalanches or froze to death
Video
Friday-
Watch Henry Ford video
Talk about extra credit
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