1. Age of the Railroad and Expansion of Industry

2. Agenda
1. Bell Ringer: How does populism represent the people? 2. Notes: Age of the Railroad, Expansion of Industry (20 minutes) 3. Impact of Technology Analysis (15 minutes) 4. Video Clip: Promoting Edison and Tesla (15 minutes) 5. The War of the Currents (10 minutes) 6. Quick Kahoot Review (15 minutes)

3. Resources Fuel Industrialization
New inventions help improve processes and aid in factories being open continuously.
Lightbulb- Thomas Edison
Typewriter- Charles Sholes
Telephone- Alexander Graham Bell
Bessemer Steel Process

4. Transcontinental Railroad
Railroads provide increased economic potential and easier travel.
Transcontinental railroad completed in 1869.
Time zones created to regulate train travel throughout the United States.

5. New Opportunities
Towns become known for independent economies, all linked by rail.
Chicago, stockyards and meatpacking
Minneapolis- Grain production
George Pullman built a town for their employees to manufacture rail cars.
Strict rules in place to promote harmony between groups.

6. Conflict
The Grange- Farmers that did not like the high costs of railroads.
They needed to send grain and livestock east. The railroads charged high taxes, bankrupting the farmers.
Munn v. Illinois would allow states to regulate the railroads for the benefit of farmers, and limited the taxes imposed on those groups by the railroads.
It became a national issue under the Interstate Commerce Act
The Panic of 1893 would consolidate the railroads, and this would lead to seven companies controlling 66% of track.