1. The Growth of Industry
Chapter 19

2. Section 1: railroads Lead the Way! (Page 551)
S.1 Question
How did the railways pave the way for the expansion of industry in the West?

3. Trains!

4. Influence of trains Civil War? After the War?
Moved troops and supplies
Lines expanded to help with trade and rebuilding.
163,000 miles of track by 1900!

5. Railroads in Song John Henry
9 minutes
I’ve been working on the railroad
Buggs clip 30 sec.
Rr clip 2 min or so.

6. Quiz item Consolidation
Practice of large RR companies buying smaller companies
Other examples?
Internet?
Cable?
Cell phone companies…?

7. Quiz Item Railroad Barons Cornelius Vanderbilt History Channel clip
The Men Who Built America: The Rise of Cornelius Vanderbilt (3:47) TV-G
Discover how a steamboat captain built a railroad empire.

8. How did the railroads increase growth in industry?
Raw Materials: coal, iron ore, and timber to factories
Move manufactured good to markets
Transport produce from farms

9. Connecting America Standard Gauge
Same width of RR track, 4 feet, 8.5 inches

10. Standard Gauge

11. RR Technology improves
Air brakes
Couplers
Refrigerated cars
Sleeping cars
Dining cars

12. Quiz item
Rebates
Secret discounts to the largest customers

13. How did the railways pave the way for the expansion of industry in the West?
Draw a picture related to your response:
Share with a neighbor!
End section 1 notes.
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14. Section 2 notes Chapter 19
Inventions!
How did inventions change the way Americans lived?

15. inventions
Samuel B. Morse invented?
Telegraph

16. Inventions Alexander Graham Bell invented?
Telephone!
The Birth of Telecommunications (4:11) TV-PG
Alexander Graham Bell thought he was on to something, but no one wanted his new invention. Hear the first messages to travel by wire and through the air.

17. Inventions Thomas Edison invented? Light bulb!

18. Inventions Henry Ford improved…
The ways cars were made so they were less expensive

19. Inventions The Wright Brothers were the first to… Fly an airplane!
How did the various inventions change the way Americans lived?
Assignment: Categorize the inventions on a piece of notebook paper!

20. Section 3, C.19, the age of Big business
How did big business change the way Americans lived?
This time period in history is referred to as the “guilded age.”
What is guilded?
Who prospered?
Who did not?
What is the result?

21. The corporation What is a corporation?
A company that sells shares or stock to the public

22. facebook

23. Quiz item What are dividends?
A reward or cash payment for investing in the company stock

24. The oil business John D. Rockefeller
Formed a company called Standard Oil.
(Kerosene)

25. Standard oil

26. Standard Oil

27. The Steel Business Andrew Carnegie Made steel at a lower cost
Sidenote: Pittsburgh Steelers
J.P. Morgan bought Carnegie’s steel company for 450 Million.
First Billion $ company in the U.S.

28. What to do with all of the money?
Philanthropy
Use of money to benefit the community
Sidenotes: Carnegie donated over 350M, Carnegie Hall in NYC
Rockefeller, money for medical research and started the University of Chicago

29. Corporations (big business)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890
This was the first attempt to limit the power of monopolies

30. What is the problem with Monopolies?
Prices?
Quality?
Competition?
Cell phones?
Other products?
Section summary?
How did big business change the life of Americans?
End section 3.

31. The men who built America
The Men Who Built America: Traits of a Titan (3:37) TV-G
Today's business leaders reflect on the character and inspiration that many of America's first titans of industry all had in common.

32. Section 4 Industrial Workers
Challenges for workers:
Big factories
Less personal
Long work day (10-12 hours)
6 day work week
Fired for no reason
Could be replaced by immigrants who were willing to take less pay

33. Working Conditions Sweatshops
Garment workers who toiled in crowded factories and ruined their eyesight by sewing in poor light for many hours

34. Child Labor Laws to protect children were often ignored by employers
Law: 12 years old, not work more than 10 hours per day.
Jacob Riis (2:07) TV-PG
Learn how photographer Jacob Riis changed the lives of New York Citiy's poor by exposing how they were forced to live.

35. Labor Unions begin to form. Why?
Trade Unions
Groups that formed because they worked in the same type of job

36. Unions begin to grow Collective bargaining
The union represents the workers when bargaining with manangement.
Sidenote: Some unions are allowed to strike
Triangle Shirt Company Fire, Co. locked the doors so workers couldn’t leave early died in a fire.

37. The unions take action
Railroad strike of 1877: Strikebreakers were hired to replace striking workers. Led to violence

38. More Union action Haymarket Square Riot in Chicago 1886
Workers were protesting the killing of 4 strikes
Someone threw a bomb that killed 7 policemen.
Pbs 8 minute clip

39. More Union Action Homestead Strike:
Carnegie cut worker’s wages hoping to break the union, led to riots
Pinkertons

40. More union action Pullman Strike of 1894:
Railway plant workers in Chicago went on strike due to cut in wages. President Cleveland sent troops to end the strike. A big hit to the labor movement.
End section 4.
Summarize the labor movement. Include a picture in the space below.