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Industrial Revolution. By J. Collins. Industrial Revolution. The IR is when people stopped making stuff at home and started making stuff in factories. Cottage Industry. Factory system. Cotton gin. His cotton gin removed the seeds out of raw cotton. Steam Engine.
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Industrial Revolution By J. Collins
Industrial Revolution The IR is when people stopped making stuff at home and started making stuff in factories.
Cotton gin • His cotton gin removed the seeds out of raw cotton.
Steam Engine • The steam engine was not just a transportation device. It ran entire factories the way rivers used to.
Transcontinental RR • The transcontinental railroad made travel across the country faster, cheaper and more efficient.
Canals • Canals are manmade waterways dug between 2 large bodies of water. • The Erie Canal was a short cut from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.
Panama Canal • The Panama Canal was a shortcut from the Atlantic to the Pacific (or backwards).
Telegraph • Samuel Morse invented the telegraph. It communicated using a series of beeps (Morse code).
telephone • Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
Robber Barons • Andrew Carnegie owned US Steel.
Robber Barons • John D. Rockefeller owned the railroads and the oil industries
Monopoly • Carnegie and Rockefeller ran their competition out of business. • A monopoly is when one company controls the entire industry.
Thomas Edison • The light bulb allowed factories to work at night.
Edison’s inventions • Motion picture camera
Pull factors • Immigrants come to the USA for jobs and opportunities.
Pull factors are good stuff to bring immigrants here like jobs.
Push factors • Push factors are bad stuff to push immigrants away like war or disease. This is potato famine.
Child labor • Many immigrants put their children to work ASAP.
Child labor • Shoeshine boys
Child labor • Bowling pin boys
Child labor • Coal miner boys
Child labor • Young miner
Girls were preferred over boys. They were paid less, had smaller hands.
Progressivism • Progressivism is a series of reform movements during the late 1800 and early 1900s.
