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Zation Unit 1860s-1900s Where: Northeast, Midwest and Westcoast Cities

Zation Unit 1860s-1900s Where: Northeast, Midwest and Westcoast Cities. Industrialization -discoveries and inventions that improved manufacturing, transportation and the everyday lives of Americans

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Zation Unit 1860s-1900s Where: Northeast, Midwest and Westcoast Cities

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  1. Zation Unit 1860s-1900sWhere: Northeast, Midwest and Westcoast Cities • Industrialization-discoveries and inventions that improved manufacturing, transportation and the everyday lives of Americans • Immigration-People began moving to the United States for employment opportunities and the chance for the American Dream • Urbanization-the growth of cities upward and outward. Cities beginning to take a modern look (skyscrapers, mass transit, street lights).

  2. Railroads

  3. Railroads Stimulate The Economy • Carried raw materials to factories. • Carried manufactured goods from factories to markets • Steel tracks could carry bigger loads farther, faster • R.R. created jobs in the steel, lumber, and coal industry

  4. Making It Rich off the Railroad Many made afortunein the Railroad industry Couplers Connected R.R. Cars Refrigerated Cars

  5. Pullman Cars:George Pullman created the first passenger cars

  6. Railroad Barons & Railroad Invention Tycoons

  7. Railroad Barons & Railroad Invention Tycoons Continued

  8. How wealthy are we talking kids?We’re talking extreme, beyond belief wealth • http://www.nyc-architecture.com/NP/NP.htm Vanderbilt Home Pullman House

  9. Inventions Change the way Americans Lived on a daily basis.

  10. New inventions and the R.R. helped Big Business Boom during this time • John D. Rockefeller obtained great wealth in the oil industry • Andrew Carnegiedid the same in the steel industry. • Many other big business owners took advantage of the new technology and lack of regulation of business to strike it rich.

  11. Define the following in your notes. • Corporation • Stock • Shareholders • Merger • Dividends • Trust • Horizontal Integration • Monopoly • Vertical Integration • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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