Industrial Revolution Lecture 1 1877 - 1917

Standard 11.2.1 Know the effect of industrialization on living and working conditions, including the portrayal of working conditions and food safety in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. Essential Question: What is the significance of the Railroad and the changes it brought about?

Economic -- Money, taxes, manufacture, and trade History can be divided into four broad categories. Not all events are easily placed in any one category. Political -- Governments, wars, treaties, laws, court cases, elections, and political parties Economic -- Money, taxes, manufacture, and trade Geographic -- Topography, climate, agriculture, and resources Social -- Religion, entertainment, immigration, and social movements

The Effects of the Civil War on Industrialization Expansion of Northern Industrialization and Markets Factories = Mass Production = Low Prices North = production and manufacturing of goods. West and South = Raw Materials wheat, corn, livestock, iron, timber, gold, silver, coal Failure of Reconstruction African Americans in the South had rights on paper 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

Homestead Act, 1862 Goal = Policy of Northerners who wanted individual farmers to own and operate their own farms This helped fill in the middle of the country CSS 11.1.4

Attempted Assimilation of Native Americans Dawes Act, 1887 Indian tribes were forced onto reservations government tried to assimilate the Indians into white society Gave them property to farm Indian children were and educated in white schools railroads paid for the annihilation of the buffalo No Food  CSS 11.1.4

Attempted Assimilation of Native Americans Ghost Dance Movement a ceremony to communicate with the dead government banned it Wounded Knee, 1890 cavalry ordered to take all of the Sioux firearms A deaf Indian refused to give up his gun shooting began Over 300 Sioux died and 25 cavalry CSS 11.1.4

Importance of the Railroad Railroads = Fast, Cheap, Efficient Railroad Materials helped built industry 1865 and 1900 the US built over 150,000 miles of railroad mining, lumber, steel mills, chemical plants Land Grants CSS 11.2.6

Choo Choo Union Pacific and Central Pacific, 1869 Time Zones Irish and Chinese Labor Time Zones Railroads created time zones for efficiency Cecil P. Huntington Leland Stanford CSS 11.2.6