Monday - 2nd part of Quiz/Written part - Discussion: Las Vegas Shooting
Tuesday - Chapter 6-
Important Questions!!
1. How did growth of the steel industry influence the development of other industries?
2. How did inventions and developments in the late 19th century change the way people worked?
Industrial Revolution: Lots of things were being invented and mass produce.
The Industrial Revolutions was a period of major industrialization that took place during the late 1700's and early 1800's
Natural resources, creative ideas and growing markets fueled an industrial boom.
Technological developments of the late 19th century paved the way for continued growth of American industry.
a. Child Labor
b. Poor Working Conditions
Vocab -
1. Entrepreneur - a person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture
2. Edwin L. Drake - Used a steam engine to drill for oil
3. Bessemer process - a cheap and efficient process for making steel
4. Thomas Alva Edison - an American inventor and businessman; created first industrial research laboratory, electricity, and the light bulb
5. Christopher Sholes - invented the typewriter
6. Alexander Graham Bell - Invented the telephone
What took America from an agricultural nation to a leading industrial power?
1. Many natural resources -
a. Coal
b. Iron Ore
c. Steel
Bessemer Process:
1. Coal and iron were readily available in the United States
2. Iron was a dense metal but soft and rusted
3. The Bessemer Process took out the air in the steel to take out the carbon making it stronger
4. Railroads were buying huge amounts of steel to build tracks
5. Brooklyn Bridge - called the
6. Skyscrapers - steel could bear the weight of the height of the building
d. Oil -
Oil Boom -
a. Edwin L. Drake used a steam engine to drill oil out of the ground in Pennsylvania in 1859
b. It spread through Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Texas
c. Refining industries started in Cleveland and Pittsburgh
d. They refined the oil into kerosene and gasoline
Standard Oil Company, Cleveland, Ohio
1. Founded by John D. Rockefeller
2. On the shore of Lake Erie
3. Connected to the oil wells of Pennsylvania by railroad
4. Ohio was rural, but Cleveland was perfect for industrialization
5. Successful for both Cleveland and the entire country
6. First environmental concerns/pollution from the refinery
7. Air and Water - put oil into the river - fires broke out on the water and destroyed boats, buildings, and ship yards
2. Government giving businesses money
3. Growing cities
4. Cheap labor
5. New products -
Inventions Promote Change
a. Photography
b. Telegraph - Faster Communication
c. Dynamite - Used for mining, railroad tracks through the mountains
d. Motion Picture
e. Reaper - Faster Farming
f. Sewing Machine - Used in factories, women didn't have to make their own clothes
g. Radio
h. Airplane (1903)
Electricity -
1. Thomas Edison - established a research laboratory
2. He invented the light bulb - why important? - Changed what they did at night/Longer time in factories
3. He invented a way to produce and distribute electricity
4. Electricity was important because:
a. Ran many machines - Faster/didn't have to have people do it/took away jobs
b. Available in homes for time-saving appliances
c. Manufacturing plants could be located anywhere - no need to be next to a power source like a river - industries grew
Wednesday - List Five Inventions that we talked about yesterday
1. Telegraph
2. Photography
3. Airplanes
4. Reaper
5. Radio
Vocab -
a. Henry Ford's Quadricycle - A gasoline-powered horseless-carriage. (4 bicycle tires) (First Model)
b. Model T -
c. Principles of Scientific Management -
d. Interchangeable Parts -
e. Assembly Line - Machines and people working together to make cars.
f. Division of Labor - Job is specific
g. Mass Production - An item that is made a lot of.
Thursday - Industrial Revolution Con...
Typewriter and Telephone - Important? Improved Communication
a. Christopher Sholes invented the typewriter
b. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
c. Both changed the way people worked in a office
d. It created new jobs for women
Consumers -
a. People were spending money buying things
b. The more people purchased the more the things were being invented and produkced
c. Cities were growing
d. What does this all add up to? Mass production, Industrial Revolution.
*More Important Questions!!!
Why did people, especially farmers, demand regulation of the railroads in the late 19th century?
Unfair prices/no competition
Why were attempts at railroad regulation often unsuccessful?
More Vocab Words -
Transcontinental Railroad - a railroad line liking 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 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 -
a. Railroads made traveling easy and moving west possible for both businesses and people
b. The government gave the railroads huge land grants and loans
c. By 1890, there was over 190,000 miles of railroad track in the United States
d. The railroad made the "American Dream" possible - adventure, land, and a fresh start
e. The Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads built the transcontinental railroad
Immigrants Working on the Railroad --
a. Union Pacific employed Irish immigrants and out-of-work Civil War veterans
b. Central Pacific employed Chinese immigrants
c. Working conditions were awful:
1c. Native American attacks
2c. Accidents
3c. Disease - disabled and killed the workers
4c.
d. Asian immigrants earns less money than the white workers
e. White workers received $40-60 a month plus free meals
f. Chinese were paid $35 a month and supplied their own food
g. Dug tunnels by hand through granite mountains
h. Worked while surrounded by walls of snow
i. Many were buried in avalanches or froze to death
Time Zones -
a. Each town still had it's own time - noon was when the sun was directly overhead
b. Noon in Boston was 12 minutes later than in New York City
c. In 1869, Professor C.F. Dowd divided the earth into 24 time zones, one for each hour of the day.
d. United States has four time zones: Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific
Friday -
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