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Day 91 US War and Expansion / Nineteenth Century Progress

Explore the transformative era of 19th-century America marked by war, industrial innovations, cultural shifts, and scientific breakthroughs, from Manifest Destiny to Darwin's Origins of Species.

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Day 91 US War and Expansion / Nineteenth Century Progress

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  1. Day 91 US War and Expansion / Nineteenth Century Progress Extra Credit: Origins of Species by Darwin (Book)

  2. America Moves West • Manifest Destiny • Indian Removal Act and the trail of tears • Louisiana Purchase • Mexico Loses Texas • Mexican-American War

  3. Civil War • Cultural differences: Industrial North and Agricultural South • Issues included slavery and State rights • Lincoln is elected and South Carolina leads secession • North wins and begins a process of reconstruction • 1/5 of US adult male population dies

  4. Post War economy • Mass Immigration from Europe in East and Asia in West • Railroad System increases

  5. 19th Century Progress

  6. Inventions of the “2nd” Industrial Revolution Electricity • Light Bulb- Thomas Edison (Menlo Park, New Jersey) • Electric Generator- Hydro-electric energy. Single family homes with electricity Communication • Telephone- Alexander Graham Bell • Guglielmo Marconi- radio • Auto- Gottlieb Daimler • Ford- Assembly • Airplane- Wright Brothers

  7. More Inventions Alfred Nobel- Dynamite Alessandro Volta- Battery Nikolaus Otto- Internal Combustion Engine Samuel Morse- Telegraph

  8. Mass Culture • Education and Literacy = More Newspapers and books • Weekend Laws • Musical Variety Shows (Vaudeville) • Movies (Thomas Edison- Pioneer) • Sports as entertainment (Football and Baseball and Olympic revival)

  9. Medicine and Science • Louis Pasteur- Germ theory- Leads to pasteurization and vaccination • William Morton- Anesthesia • Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution- Origins of Species • Genetic Heredity (Mendel) • Atoms, Periodic Table (Dmitry Mendeleyev) • Marie Curry- Nobel Prize for Chemistry and Physics, Radioactivity, Polonium

  10. Social Science • Sociology- study of human society • Anthropology- Study of culture • Psychology- study of the Pavlov- Dog

  11. Summary Question Who? • Developed the theory of evolution. • Developed an efficient Assembly Line • Developed the Germ theory • Invented a practical incandescent light bulb • Invented the telephone • Identified radioactivity • Invented the first Radio • Invented the first airplane • Developed the theory that much of human actions are based on unconscious reaction and can be changed based on training

  12. Discussion Questions • Why do you think that Darwin’s theories were seen as controversial?

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