1. Industry and Urban Growth Kristen Hall

2. Thesis To educate the class on the rapid industrial growth of the United States from 1865 to 1915.

3. Industrial Revolution Steel and Oil Railroad Boom Inventors and inventions – Edison’s Invention Factory – Communications – Devices for Home and Office

4. Industrial Revolution Transportation Revolution – Henry Ford Assembly Line Wright Brothers – Orville and Wilbur Wright Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

5. BB & OL Corporation – Stockholders Banking – Lent amounts of capital to corporations Trusts – Free Enterprise Andrew Carnegie – Immigrant – Steel industry J.D. Rockefeller – Immigrant – Oil refinery

6. BB & OL Social Darwinism – Charles Darwin – “survival of the fittest” Women and Children – Sweatshops Dangerous Conditions – Fibers and Dust – Molten metal – Fires Workers Organize

7. BB & OL Knights of labor – Admitted women, African Americans, immigrants, and unskilled workers. Women in Labor – Mary Harris Jones AFL – Skilled workers only Women in Labor Movement Strikes

8. Growing Cities Urbanization 1860- 1/5 th | 1890- 1/3 rd City dweller New York | San Francisco Cities ↔ Industry ↔ People New Technology – Elevated trains – Electric subway – Electric streetcar Skyscraper – Chicago; 10-story

9. Growing City Problems Tenement Life Improving City Life Settlement Houses

10. Excitement in the Cities Department Stores – Allowed people to get all goods in one store Leisure Activities – People valued free time because of their the long work hours – Visited Orchestra, art galleries, theatres, circuses – Parks, zoos, and gardens in the city

11. Sports Baseball Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1869 Soccer Massachusetts Basketball Winter sport Football 44 college players died of injuries 1882 American Association Champions Cincinnati Reds

12. Immigrants Migration – Italy  farmland shrunk as the population swelled – Turkey and Russia  escape from religious persecution – Mexico  political unrest within the country Immigrants came to the United States searching for the promise of freedom

13. “The New Immigrants” Southern and Eastern Europe – Italy, Poland, Russia, and Greece – Catholic or Jewish Fewer immigrants from the Pacific and Asia Video  Ellis Island

14. America and immigrant neighborhoods Immigrants had been crammed in steerage – Breeding grounds for disease and rough seas sickened travelers Once admitted to the U.S. – Settled in cities/ethnic neighborhoods Sidewalks would fill the streets with all types of languages Brought back traditions from the old country such as Kielbasa and Goulash

15. Finally becoming an American Assimilation – Becoming part of another culture Children assimilated easier than adults because of the English-speakers in school. Contributions – Worked in steel mills, meatpacking plants, mines, and garment sweatshops – Chinese, Irish, and Mexicans laid railroads in the west.

17. Education and Culture Compulsory education is the requirement that children attend school up to a certain age. 8:00A.M. to 4:00P.M. Adults got more opportunity to widen their knowledge by having local libraries.

18. Realism and Mark Twain Realists emphasized the harsh truth of life. Jack London wrote of miners and sailors who worked hard for little money Mark Twain wrote books about people who worked along the Mississippi River

19. The Newspaper More Americans could read – Cities needed newspapers to stay informed with all the events Joseph Pulitzer – New York World – The Yellow Kid Tough but sweet slum boy who became the first popular American comic strip

20. Works Cited http://www.oldhouseweb.com/architecture-and-design/a-museum-to- tenement-life.shtml http://www.oldhouseweb.com/architecture-and-design/a-museum-to- tenement-life.shtml http://www.eccchistory.org/BurdenFireWagon2.jpg Davidson, James West and Michael B. Stoff. America History of Our Nation: Civil War to Present. Boston, Massachusetts: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007 “Industrialization and Reform.” The USA online. Active USA Center. May 13 th, 2009. http://www.theusaonline.com/history/industrilazation.htm R, Gawaine. “What effect did industrial growth of the late 1800’s have on urban living?.” Yahoo! Answers. 2007. Yahoo!. May 12, 2009. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070719153519AAtnaGd