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Chapter 20: Industrialization and Immigration 1860-1914

Chapter 20: Industrialization and Immigration 1860-1914. Section 1 American Enters the Industrial Age. Chapter 20 Objectives. Explain:. 1. Definition of Industrial Revolution 2. What caused industries to grow so rapidly?. Chapter 20 Objectives. Explain:.

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Chapter 20: Industrialization and Immigration 1860-1914

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  1. Chapter 20: Industrialization and Immigration 1860-1914 Section 1 American Enters the Industrial Age

  2. Chapter 20 Objectives... Explain: 1. Definition of Industrial Revolution 2. What caused industries to grow so rapidly?

  3. Chapter 20 Objectives... Explain: 3. Why did people immigrate to the U.S. during this time period? 4. How/why labor unions started.

  4. Chapter 20 Objectives... Explain: 5. How did industrialization and technology create a new mass culture in the U.S.?

  5. Industrial Revolution: Change from making goods by hand to using machines (mass production). Chapter 11 Section 1, Page 365. Video Clip: Industrial Revolution

  6. Chapter 11-1 • 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.

  7. Mill from textbook. Ch. 11 Page 371

  8. Chapter 11-1 • 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

  9. Chapter 11-1 • Developments in Transportation and Communication: • Robert Fulton – Steam Boat • Peter Cooper – built America’s first locomotive train • Samuel Morse – Telegraph and Morse Code

  10. Chapter 20-1 • Railroad Companies give U.S. Economy Benefits- • Economy: a system of producing and distributing the material needs of a society.

  11. 20-1 Railroads Spur Industry • Railroad Companies give the U.S. Economy Benefits... • Transport of raw materials and finished goods • Allowed industries to grow

  12. 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

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

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