The Rise of Industry Section 5.1 (T&H page 223) Welcome to Beautiful Lower Moreland

Today’s Agenda Day 7 Political Spectrum Quiz Get Textbook 5.1 Slide Show Homework Use the notes above to answer the following. Pretend that you are an immigrant to the United States at the turn of the 20 th Century (about 1900). Write a letter back to your home country (or a diary entry) and describe what you see. (About 1 paragraph). Be creative.

Abraham Lincoln elected President Lee surrenders at Appomattox Transcontinental RR completed Centennial Exposition showcases Corliss Engine Edison lights Pearl Street, NY Brooklyn Bridge Completed Post Civil War America Industrial Revolution Begins in America Civil War

Agrarian Rural Few big cities Travel is slow and difficult Very few consumer goods Products made by skilled craftsmen for local community What was America like before the Industrial Revolution?

How did the US change economically after the Civil War? It Industrialized –Changed from nation of farms to a nation of factories, mines, and railroads Mass production –Producing large amounts of standardized products –made skilled craftsmen obsolete Urbanization –People (peasants) left the country and moved to the city Proletariat (workers) –New social class appeared Click for Clip

Who was Louis Sullivan? Father of the Skyscraper American architect Great Chicago Fire of 1871Fire –Legend says Mrs. O’Leary’s cow tipped lantern & started fire –Gave Sullivan chance to help rebuild city –Price of steel also began to fall overcame limits of thick load- bearing walls by using a steel frame “form follows function" –emphasized the importance of a building’s usefulness over its aesthetic beauty Click for Clip Begin at 8:55

Describe the technology boom Patents skyrocketed – thousand patents –1890s- 200 thousand patents Telephone- Alexander Graham Bell 1876)Bell –Tinkered with electricity and metal disks to replace damaged eardrum for deaf –“ Mr. Watson, come here: I want you.” –1878 – 1 st phone in White House – million phones Centennial Exposition of 1876Centennial Exposition –1 st official World’s Fair in Phila –Showcased American inventions Typewriter, Corliss Engine, Heinz Ketchup Wright Brothers –1 st sustained flight 1903

New York, 1850

Describe the Brooklyn Bridge Longest suspension bridge (1883) 1 st to use steel wire Designed by architects John August Roebling & Washington Roebling John died of tetanus (just as construction began) Finished by Washington (& his wife) –Caissons disease (Bridge is) Both beautiful and functional A statement of American greatness Click for clip

Caisson

New York, 1873

San Francisco, CA (circa 1847)

San Francisco, CA (Circa Mid1850s)

What impact did the expansion of the railroad have on America? Gold Rush (1849) –Population of California boomed –Calif. Had very fertile soil Pacific RR Act (1862) –Government called for construction of transcontinental RR –Completed 1869 Created a national market New products now available: –Gustavus Swift/ Meat Packing Used refrigerated RR cars –Fruit industry Chain Stores are born –Woolworth’s –Macy’s

How did businesses change as a result of the Industrial Revolution? Became Big businesses “Heavy” industries (RR, factories) grew Managerial Revolution –Businesses run by trained professionals Mass Production –Making large amounts of standardized products

The American Dream

Ticket Out or Homework Use the notes above to answer the following. Pretend that you are an immigrant to the United States at the turn of the 20 th Century (about 1900). Write a letter back to your home country (or a diary entry) and describe what you see. (About 1 paragraph). Be creative.