1. Warm Up 2/6 LINCS Cards Dry Farming Carlisle School Turner Thesis
Assimilation
Nativism
Reservations
Dawes Act
Omaha Platform
Morell Land Grab Act
Bimetallism

2. Growth of Industry
Focus Question :How did industrialization and new technology affect the economy and society?

4. The Gilded Age (Late 1800s)
Mark Twain called the late 19th century the "Gilded Age." By this, he meant that the period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath.
In the popular view, the late 19th century (late 1800s) was a period of greed, shady business practices, discrimination and corruption.

6. Conditions that led to rapid Industrialization
What is industry? OR

7. Industrialization
Period of social and economic change that transforms a society from Agrarian (mainly farming) to Industry (business and manufacturing)

9. Conditions that led to rapid Industrialization
1. Abundant Natural Resources:
Edwin Drake used the steam engine to drill for oil
OIL
COAL
Iron ore and coal were used to create steel
Bessemer Process: injecting air into molten iron
Steel = lighter, more flexible than iron & rust resistant
Used for:
Skyscrapers & Brooklyn Bridge:

10. Conditions that led to rapid Industrialization
2. Expanding Urban Population
Due to immigration and migration to cities
Provided markets for new inventions, manufactured goods, and goods produced in the West.
Ready supply of labor for industry
Skilled and unskilled/semi-skilled

11. Conditions that led to rapid Industrialization
2. Increasing Number of Inventions
ELECTRICITY!
Thomas Edison, 1789: lightbulb – system of producing and distributing electric power
Refined by George Westinghouse who made electricity safer and cheaper!
Enables industries to grow!
Spurred other inventions!

12. New Uses for Steel The Bessemer Process
In 1856 Henry Bessemer devised a way of converting iron into steel on a large scale.
His invention involved blowing air through molten iron in a converter, or furnace, in order to burn off the excess carbon.
His invention revolutionized the Industrial Age.
New Uses for Steel
Steel used in railroads, barbed wire, farm machines
Changes construction: Brooklyn Bridge; steel-framed skyscrapers

13. With the Bessemer Process and Carnegie steel, Skyscrapers revolutionized the building industry…..
Major city skylines would be dotted with this new type of building as the 1900’s begin.

16. Thomas Alva Edison
“Wizard of Menlo Park”

17. “Wizard of Menlo Park”
Edison Inventions helped to shape modern society
More than 1,000 inventions patented
Light bulb
Phonograph
Incandescent electric lamp
Starter for automobiles that eliminated hand crank
Batteries
Perfected stock ticker
New York City first city to powered by electricity
The motion picture camera and projector
First used “hello” as phone greeting
Helped Alexander G. Bell with the telephone

18. Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone (1876)

19. Wilbur Wright Orville Wright
The Airplane
Wilbur Wright Orville Wright

20. Model T Automobile
Henry Ford

21. Assembly line

22. What was life like before Ford’s assembly line?
Ford began building the Model T in It took workers 12 hours to build one.
After 1913, when Ford built his assembly line plant, it took 93 minutes to build one car.
By 1925, a Ford car took 10 seconds to build.

23. How did the world change?
The price of automobiles decreases from…
$805 in 1908
$490 in 1914
$295 in 1924
Now everyone could have a car…and were not restricted to one area.
By 1924 more people in the United States had cars than had indoor plumbing.
“You can’t ride to town in a bathtub”

24. U. S. Patents Granted 1790s  276 patents issued.

25. Conditions that led to rapid Industrialization
Favorable Government Policies
“Laissez-Faire” government policies: no regulation by government of business
Free market – allowed some the opportunity to become very wealthy
HIGH tariffs protected American business by keeping foreign goods out! Tariff = Tax on imports (things made in other countries)

26. Favorable Government Policies
Capitalism: Economic system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by big business
What would be the opposite of capitalism?

27. How do both electricity and the assembly line impact production of items? Do Assembly Lines require more or less skill? What type of worker would work on an assembly line?