1. Industrial Revolution
Lecture 1

2. Standard
Know the effect of industrialization on living and working conditions, including the portrayal of working conditions and food safety in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.
Essential Question: What is the significance of the Railroad and the changes it brought about?

3. Economic -- Money, taxes, manufacture, and trade
History can be divided into four broad categories.
Not all events are easily placed in any one category.
Political -- Governments, wars, treaties, laws, court cases, elections, and political parties
Economic -- Money, taxes, manufacture, and trade
Geographic -- Topography, climate, agriculture, and resources
Social -- Religion, entertainment, immigration, and social movements

4. The Effects of the Civil War on Industrialization
Expansion of Northern Industrialization and Markets
Factories = Mass Production = Low Prices
North = production and manufacturing of goods.
West and South = Raw Materials
wheat, corn, livestock, iron, timber, gold, silver, coal
Failure of Reconstruction
African Americans in the South had rights on paper
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

5. Homestead Act, 1862
Goal = Policy of Northerners who wanted individual farmers to own and operate their own farms
This helped fill in the middle of the country
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6. Attempted Assimilation of Native Americans
Dawes Act, 1887
Indian tribes were forced onto reservations
government tried to assimilate the Indians into white society
Gave them property to farm
Indian children were and educated in white schools
railroads paid for the annihilation of the buffalo
No Food 
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7. Attempted Assimilation of Native Americans
Ghost Dance Movement
a ceremony to communicate with the dead
government banned it
Wounded Knee, 1890
cavalry ordered to take all of the Sioux firearms
A deaf Indian refused to give up his gun shooting began
Over 300 Sioux died and 25 cavalry
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8. Importance of the Railroad
Railroads = Fast, Cheap, Efficient
Railroad Materials helped built industry
1865 and 1900 the US built over 150,000 miles of railroad
mining, lumber, steel mills, chemical plants
Land Grants
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9. Choo Choo Union Pacific and Central Pacific, 1869 Time Zones
Irish and Chinese Labor
Time Zones
Railroads created time zones for efficiency
Cecil P.
Huntington
Leland
Stanford
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