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1 Day 91 US War and Expansion / Nineteenth Century Progress Extra Credit: Origins of Species by Darwin (Book)

2 America Moves West Manifest Destiny Indian Removal Act and the trail of tears Louisiana Purchase Mexico Loses Texas Mexican-American War

3 Civil War Cultural differences: Industrial North and Agricultural South Issues included slavery and State rights Lincoln is elected and South Carolina leads secession North wins and begins a process of reconstruction 1/5 of US adult male population dies

4 Post War economy Mass Immigration from Europe in East and Asia in West Railroad System increases

5 19 th Century Progress

6 Inventions of the “2 nd ” Industrial Revolution Electricity Light Bulb- Thomas Edison (Menlo Park, New Jersey) Electric Generator- Hydro- electric energy. Single family homes with electricity Communication Telephone- Alexander Graham Bell Guglielmo Marconi- radio Auto- Gottlieb Daimler Ford- Assembly Airplane- Wright Brothers

7 More Inventions Alfred Nobel- Dynamite Alessandro Volta- Battery Nikolaus Otto- Internal Combustion Engine Samuel Morse- Telegraph

8 Mass Culture Education and Literacy = More Newspapers and books Weekend Laws Musical Variety Shows (Vaudeville) Movies (Thomas Edison- Pioneer) Sports as entertainment (Football and Baseball and Olympic revival)

9 Medicine and Science Louis Pasteur- Germ theory- Leads to pasteurization and vaccination William Morton- Anesthesia Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution- Origins of Species Genetic Heredity (Mendel) Atoms, Periodic Table (Dmitry Mendeleyev) Marie Curry- Nobel Prize for Chemistry and Physics, Radioactivity, Polonium

10 Social Science Sociology- study of human society Anthropology- Study of culture Psychology- study of the Pavlov- Dog

11 Summary Question Who? 1)Developed the theory of evolution. 2)Developed an efficient Assembly Line 3)Developed the Germ theory 4)Invented a practical incandescent light bulb 5)Invented the telephone 6)Identified radioactivity 7)Invented the first Radio 8)Invented the first airplane 9)Developed the theory that much of human actions are based on unconscious reaction and can be changed based on training

12 Discussion Questions Why do you think that Darwin’s theories were seen as controversial?


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