Monday-
Written test
Tuesday-
Industrial Revolution- 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 19th century paved the way for continued growth of American industry
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?
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 efficient process for making steel, Coal and iron were readily available in the US, The Bessemer Process took out the air in the steel to take out the carbon making it stronger
Thomas Alva Edison- An American inventor and business man, created first industrial research lab, electricity and the light bulb\
Electricity-
Thomas Edison- established a research lab
He invented the light bulb
He invented a way to produce and distribute electricity
Electricity was important because Ran many machines
Available in homes for time-saving appliances
Christopher Sholes- invented the typewriter
Alexander Graham Bell- invented the telephone
What took America from an agricultural nation to a leading industrial power?
Coal
Iron Ore
Steel
Oil
Government giving businesses money
Growing cities
Cheap labor
New products
Oil Boom-
Edwin L. Drake used a steam engine to drill oil out of the ground in 1859
It 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 Jon D Rockefeller
On the shore of Lake Erie
Connected to the oil wells of Pennsylvania by railroad
Succesfull for both Cleveland and the entire country
First environmental concerns/pollution from the refinery
Air and water/ putting oil into the river, fires on the water and destroyed boats
Brooklyn Bridge- Wonder of the world
Skyscrapers-steel could bear the weight of the height of the building
Inventions Promote Change-
Photography
Telegraph
Dynamite
Motion Picture
Reaper
Sewing Machine
Radio
Airplane
Wednesday:
5 inventions
Photography, Airplane, Telegraph, Sewing machine, Reaper
Vocab words
Henry Ford's Quadricycle- first vehicle built by Henry ford
Model T-first vehicle made on the assembly line
Interchangeable Parts- parts that can be used instead of custom parts for everything
Assembly line- Machines and people working alongside each other putting parts together
Division of Labor- dividing equal labor among all people
Mass Production- making lots of one thing
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 19th century?- unfair prices they could charge whatever they wanted
Why were attempts at railroad regulation often unsuccessful?-no competition
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 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
Railroads made traveling easy and moving west possible for both businesses and people
The government gave the railroads huge land grants and loans
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
The Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads made the transcontinental railroad
Union Pacific emplyed Irish immigrants and out of work Civil War vertans
Central Pacific employed CHinese immigrants
Working conditions were awful
Native American attacks
aciidents
disease
over 2,000 people died and 20,000 injured
Asian immigrants earns less money that the white workers
Dug tunnels by hand through granite mountains
worked while surrounded by snow
Many were buried in avalanches or froze to death
Time Zones
Each town still had it's own time- noon was when the sun was directly overhead
Noon in Boston was 12 minutes later than in New York City
In 1869 Professor C.F. Dowd divided the earth into 24 time zones
United States has four time zones: Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific
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