1. Industrialization and Westward Expansion
The Gilded Age
Industrialization and Westward Expansion

3. Title:
Trend:
Think: I can infer this trend exists because…

6. Title:
Trend:
Think: I can infer this trend exists because…

7. Free-Enterprise System $$$$
*Private Business
*Entrepreneurship
*Little gov. intervention
*Supply and demand
*Competition
Laissez-Faire Capitalism
*Gov. “hands off” economy (free market)

10. Corporations, Stocks, and Shareholders

11. Industrialization
*Factories
*More efficient
*Assembly-Lines
*Mass-Production
*Unskilled Labor
*Economic Growth
*Rural  Urban

13. Urbanization *The growth of cities
*Industrialization= higher standard of living and jobs
*Influx of immigration
*Higher birthrates
* U.S. population tripled
(23 million to 76 million)

16. New Technology
1. Bessemer Steel Process- production of steel more economical
2. Railroads- Transcontinental Railroad connected East to West= open new markets

22. New Technology (Commercial Electricity)
3. Light Bulb- Thomas Edison (1879); factories could extend working hours
4. Telephone- Alexander Graham Bell (1876); instantaneous long-distance communication

23. Westward Expansion (Closing the Frontier)
*Great Plains (dry-farming)
*Homestead Act (federal land grants)
*Railroads
*Farm, Ranch, Mine
*Barbed Wire Fences
*“Indian Wars”

33. How did industrialization transform late 19th century (1800s) America?
Big Question #1
How did industrialization transform late 19th century (1800s) America?

34. Free-Enterprise System and Laissez-Faire Capitalism

35. ACES Writing
Are the Free-Enterprise System and Laissez-Faire Capitalism a positive or negative economic policies?