1. Mindset #49
What is the difference between an invention and a discovery?
Define the following vocabulary:
- Industrialism
National market
Merger
Union
Strike
Turn in MS # 44-49

2. Segregation Industrialization Big business
America Post Civil War
Segregation
Industrialization
Big business

3. Segregation
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Supreme Court ruled in favor of separate but equal
Jim Crow Laws – laws that discriminated against African Americans
Lynching – an execution by a mob

6. Industrialization
Inventions!
Steam elevator
Typewriter
Refrigerator car
Telephone
Light bulb
Pullman sleeping car
Razor
Camera
Many more!!
All inventions can be placed into one of three categories:
Manufacturing
In the home
Agriculture

7. Industrialization
After the Civil War, the U.S. focused on manufacturing goods
Branching out into heavy industry
Railroad tracks
Steam engines
Farm tractors
STEEL and COAL
Production

8. Consumerism
Creation of the national marketplace changed how people spent their money
Development of department stores
Introduction of charge accounts
Cater to consumers
Advertising costs:
1870 = $50 million
1900 = $542 million

9. Big Business
Steel
Coal
Oil
Railroads
Monopolies

10. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST FOR BUSINESS
Social Darwinism
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST FOR BUSINESS

11. Labor Unions Unions for skilled workers Main objective Shorter workday
Better pay
Knights of Labor
First national labor union to remain active for more than a few of years

12. Labor Unions - Problems
By 1900 only 1 in every 33 American workers belonged to a union
Unions excluded women, minority groups, and unskilled workers
Less than 100,000 of the 5.3 million working women belonged to unions
In the South, African American workers could only join segregated local unions
Hostility toward immigrant labor
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

13. Closure
Explain the plight of African Americans after the Civil War and Reconstruction.
What invention stood out to you and why?
What is consumerism?
What were the main industries that were developing?
What is Social Darwinism?
What were the problems with the labor unions?