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Chapter 14 Section 1

1. What are the pros and cons of railroad expansion? 2. What dangers do the railroad workers encounter? 3. How will businesses and the general public benefit from the transcontinental railroad? 4. How might railroad construction affect the environment?

Government Support for Business  After the Civil War, the United States was still largely an agricultural nation.  A mere 60 years later, by the 1920s, it had become the leading industrial power in the world. Wealth of Natural Resources Growing Urban Population

kerosene Abraham Gesner In the 1840s American’s started using kerosene to light lamps, after the Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner discovered how to distill the fuel from oil or coal.

Edwin L. Drake Titusville, Pennsylvania It wasn’t until Edwin L. Drake successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania, that removing oil from beneath the earth’s surface became practical.

 This discovery led to the oil boom that spread to Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and later Texas.  Petroleum-refining industries arose in Cleveland and Pittsburgh as entrepreneurs rushed to transform the oil to kerosene.  Gasoline, after the automobile became popular became the most important form of oil.

 Oil was not the only natural resource that was plentiful in the US.  Coal and Iron were also found. steel  Removing the carbon from iron produces a lighter, more flexible, and rust-resistant metal – steel.

 Even the successful Bessemer process was bettered by the 1860s. open-hearth process  It was eventually replaced by the open-hearth process, enabling manufacturers to produce quality steel from scrap metal as well as from raw materials.

The Home Insurance Building in Chicago. -William Le Baron Jenney

By capitalizing on natural resources and their own ingenuity, inventors, changed more than the landscape, their inventions affected the very way people lived and worked. The Power of Electricity Thomas Ava Edison, 1876, established the worlds first research lab in Menlo Park, NJ. He perfected the incandescent light bulb and later invented and entire system for producing and distributing electrical power. By 1890, electric power ran numerous machines, from fans to printing presses. Allowed manufacturers to locate their plants wherever they wanted. The Power of Electricity Thomas Ava Edison, 1876, established the worlds first research lab in Menlo Park, NJ. He perfected the incandescent light bulb and later invented and entire system for producing and distributing electrical power. By 1890, electric power ran numerous machines, from fans to printing presses. Allowed manufacturers to locate their plants wherever they wanted.

Inventions Change Lifestyles Christopher Sholes, typewriter, 1867 Alexander Graham Bell, telephone, 1867 These inventions affected office work, and created new jobs for women. Clothing was now mass produced Freed laborers from backbreaking labor and helped improve workers’ standard of living.

If the US had been poor in natural resources, how would industrialization have been affected?