1. Chapter 18 Industry and Urban Growth

6. Industry Boom
the nation expanded west and found deposits of coal, iron, and copper,
Government created policies that favored industrial growth
Including tariffs
Tax on imports

8. Steel and Oil
Building blocks of modern United States

9. Inventions
In the late 1800s Americans started to create many new inventions
In 1897 the government issued more patents than in the ten years before the Civil War
America became known as the land of Invention

10. Inventions
Thomas Edison- invented the light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera, and hundreds of other devices
In 1882, Edison opened the nation’s first electrical power plant in New York City
Helped to bring in the age of electricity

12. Inventions Communications
In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell built a device that carried the human voice (telephone)
By 1885 more than 300,00 phones had been sold
Succeeded in 1876 when he sent the first telephone message to his assistant “Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.”

14. Inventions
Other inventions include the type writer, shoe making machine, light weight camera, flash for the camera

16. Inventions In 1900 only 8,000 Americans owned automobiles
Henry Ford perfected a system that made the automobile available to millions, known as the assembly line
By 1917 more than 4.5 million Americans owned cars

21. Inventions
In 1903 Wilbur and Orville Wright were the first people ever to fly
The first flight lasted 12 seconds and flew 120 feet

23. Chapter 18 Industry and Urban Growth

24. New Ways of Doing Business
Business expansion was led by bold entrepreneurs
Businesses became corporations
Corporations limited the risk of investors

25. New Ways of Doing Business
Banks lent huge amounts of money to corporations, which led to industries growing faster

26. Growth of Big Business
Government had a laissez-faire approach to business in the late 1800s
They allowed for the rapid growth of big business and for the creation of monopolies

27. Growth of Big Business Andrew Carnegie
Managed to gain control of the steel industry
Believed that the rich had a duty to improve society (Gospel of Wealth)

28. Growth of Big Business John D. Rockefeller
Started an oil refinery at the age of 23
Used his profits to buy other oil companies and managed to take control of the oil industry

29. Working Conditions Industries attracted millions of new workers
Most were immigrants or native born whites

30. Working Conditions
Women worked and outnumbered men in some industries, such as textile mills, tobacco factories, and the garment sweatshops of New York
Children worked in bottle factories, textile mills, tobacco factories, coal mines, and sweatshops
Most child laborers could not go to school, and had little chance of improving their lives

31. Working Conditions
New York City, March 25, 1911 fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.
Hundreds of workers raced to the exits only to find the exits were locked
Nearly 150 people died as a result of the fire