Monday - Last night, there was a deadly mass murder attack at the Jason Aldean concert. He killed 50 people making this the worst in U.S history. About 200 people were injured.
Tuesday -
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
How did growth of the steel industry influence the development of other industries?
- Took place during the 1700's and early 1800's
- Natural resources, creative ideas and growing markets fueled and industrial boom
- Technological developments paved the way for continued growth of American industry
- 1. Resources - Coal, Iron Ore, Steel, Oil
- 2. Government giving businesses money
- 3. Growing Cities
- 4. Cheap Labor
- 5. New Products
- Oil Boom - Edwin L. Drake used a steam engine to drill oil out of the ground in Pennsylvania in 1859, It spread through Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Texas, Refining industries started in Cleveland and Pittsburgh , They refined the oil into kerosene
- Standard Oil Company, Cleveland Ohio - Founded by John D. Rockefeller, on Lake Erie, Connected to oil well by railroad, successful, first environmental concerns from refinery, Air and water was put into rivers - fires broke out and destroyed boats, buildings, yards
- Bessemer Process - Coal and iron were available in the U.S, 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.
- Steel was used on ... Railroads were buying huge amounts of steel to build tracks , Brooklyn Bridge - called a "wonder of the world" , Skyscrapers
How did inventions and developments in the late 19th century change the way people worked?
Inventions - Photography, Reaper, Telegraph, Sewing Machine, Dynamite, Radio, Motion Picture, Airplane
Electricity - Thomas Edison established a research laboratory , he invented the light bulb, he invented a way to produce and distribute electricity, was used for many machines, appliances, manufacturing plants could be located anywhere
Wednesday - 5 Inventions - Photography, Reaper, Telegraph, Sewing Machine, Radio
Words To Know - Henry Ford's Quadricylce, Model T, Principles of Scientific Management, Interchangeable Parts, Assembly Line, Division of Labor, Mass Production
Thursday - Christopher Sholes invented the typewriter
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
Both changed the way people worked
It created new jobs for women
Consumers - people were purchasing more things being invented and produced
Cities were growing
Why did people, especially farmers, demand regulation of the railroads in the late 19th century?
- Because of unfair prices
Why were attempts at railroad regulation often unsuccessful?
- Because of long legal processes and resistance
Transcontinental Railroad - A railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the U.S
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 vs. 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
Railroads made traveling easy and moving west possible for both businesses and people
Government gave the railroads huge land grants and loans
By 1890 there was over 190,000 miles of railroad track in the U.S
The railroad made the "American Dream" possible - Adventure, land, and a fresh start
The Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads built the transcontinental 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, Diseases, Deaths/Injuries
Asian immigrants earn 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
Railroads established time zones
In 1869, Professor C.F. Dowd divided the Earth into 24 time zones, one for each hour of the day
U.S has four time zones: Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific
Friday - Video Day
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