Agenda ● Do Now ● Expansion of Industry Notes ● Crash Course: The Industrial Economy ● Writing response ● Alexander Graham Bell Primary Source Homework: ● Read Opposing Viewpoints and answer the two questions (one at the beginning of each viepoint)
Agenda ●Do Now ●Expansion of Industry Notes ●Crash Course: The Industrial Economy ●Writing response ●Alexander Graham Bell Primary Source Homework: ●Read.
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Agenda● Do Now● Expansion of Industry Notes● Crash Course: The Industrial Economy● Writing response● Alexander Graham Bell Primary Source
Homework:● Read Opposing Viewpoints and answer the two
questions (one at the beginning of each viepoint)
Do NowHad the United States been poor in natural resources, how might industrialization been impacted?
A Technological Revolution
American HistoryNovember 20, 2014
What is an “Industrial Revolution”?
Industrial revolution can be described as…● a dramatic change in society in which
most people live on farms to one where most people live in towns or citieso In 200 years farming goes..
90% → 3%
Fuel of Industrialization● By 1900 the US economy was growing at 4%
per year● Factors leading to immense growth
o Natural resourceso Abundant labor supplyo Growing populationo Capital was plentifulo Development of laborsaving technologieso Lenient government policieso Entrepreneurs
Changes in Daily Life● Daily life in 1865
o No electric lightingo No refrigerationo Communication was slow
● Investing in technologyo Inventions rise so do investments
increases standard of living helps old and new businesses
The Oil Industry● Drake Strikes Oil
o 1858 - PA Rock Oil Company sends Edwin L. Drake to
look for oilo Drill using steam-powered
engine
● Oil strike = oil business grows
Advancement in Electricity● Edison, a master of invention
o Goal was to invent home lightingo Builds electric power plant
● Electricity is improvedo Alternating currents
● Impact of electricity
Advancements in Communication
● Telegrapho Samuel Morse
Morse Codeo Western Union Co.
● Telephoneo Alexander Graham Bell
“Talking Telegraph” 1876
Railroads Create a National Network● The Transcontinental Railroad
o Funded by the governmento Brings immigrants
● Railroad Developmento New technologies increase travel
● Railroad and Time Zoneso Standardized time
● Railroads and Industryo Stimulates other businesses
The Bessemer Process● 1850’s process for making steel
o Henry Bessemer - England Receives first patent
o William Kelly - Kentucky● Makes mass production possible● The Brooklyn Bridge
o John A. Roeblingo Opens on May 24, 1883
Writing:Write a paragraph explaining:● Which of the inventions you researched
yesterday was most significant?● Why?
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