Transcript Chapter 20: Industrialization and Immigration 1860

Chapter 20: Industrialization and
Immigration 1860-1914
Section 1
American Enters the Industrial Age
Explain:
1. Definition of Industrial Revolution
2. What caused industries to grow
so rapidly?
Explain:
3. Why did people immigrate to the
U.S. during this time period?
4. How/why labor unions started.
Explain:
5. How did industrialization and
technology create a new mass
culture in the U.S.?
Change from making goods
by hand to using machines
(mass production).
Chapter 11 Section 1, Page 365.
Video Clip: Industrial Revolution
•Factory system in Britain copied here
•Samuel Slater, first mill, Pawtucket, RI
•Interchangeable Parts (E.Whitney.)
•Lowell, Massachusetts, textile mills
•Urbanization – people looking for
factory jobs
Show Mill from page 371 in textbook.
Mill from textbook.
Ch. 11 Page 371
Beginning of Urbanization:
• people begin to move to cities looking
for factory jobs
•Mechanical reaper and other farm
technology puts farm hands out of work,
they begin to move to cities
Developments in Transportation and
Communication:
•Robert Fulton – Steam Boat
•Peter Cooper – built America’s first
locomotive train
•Samuel Morse – Telegraph and Morse
Code
Railroad Companies give U.S.
Economy Benefits•Economy: a system of producing
and distributing the material needs
of a society.
20-1 Railroads Spur Industry
Railroad Companies give the
U.S. Economy Benefits...
•Transport of raw materials and
finished goods
•Allowed industries to grow
20-1 Railroads Spur Industry
Railroad Companies give U.S.
Economy Benefits...
•Created thousands of jobs
•Changed the way a business works
(corporations)
•Opened up entire country to growth
The New Steel
Industry:
“Bessemer Process”
•William Kelly and Henry Bessemer
develop way to make cheaper,
stronger steel
•Output of steel increased 350 times
between 1867-1900.
•Plows, barbed wire, nails, steel
beams for skyscrapers, rails for
railroad.
Edison and Electricity:
1876 Menlo Park, New Jersey.
•First stable, long lasting light bulb
•Over 1000 patents for his inventions
•Invented system to deliver electricity to buildings
•1882 – installed first commercial central power
system in NY City.
New Industries:
New inventions become the
basis for new industries.
•Telephone industry (Bell, 1876).
By 1880 over 50,000+
telephones had been sold.
•Telephone switchboards = new
jobs for women
•Elias Howe and Isaac Singer –
Sewing Machines. Led to ready
made clothing for people, so new
industry for clothing production.