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8-5.5. Compare industrial development in SC to industrialization in the rest of the US, including the expansion of railroads, the development of the phosphate and textile industries, and immigration. SLM Industrialization, Expansion, & Progressivism: Industrial Development.

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8-5.5

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  1. 8-5.5 Compare industrial development in SC to industrialization in the rest of the US, including the expansion of railroads, the development of the phosphate and textile industries, and immigration.

  2. SLMIndustrialization, Expansion, & Progressivism: Industrial Development EQ: What industries developed in the late 19th century? Vocabulary: entrepreneurs raw materials mill villages lint heads

  3. Post Civil War • Industry throughout the US expanded rapidly • Discoveries of iron ore and coal in the west and the need for steel for the railroad as well as the role of entrepreneurs and new technologies led to a growth in the steel and oil industries.

  4. Meat packing and grain processing plants were built to make the bounty of the ranches and farms of the west and Midwest available to people throughout the country.

  5. Immigrants anxious to make their fortunes in America provided the labor for expanding factories.

  6. SC remained unaffected by the economic growth in the rest of the country immediately following the war and did not attract immigrants looking for work • The planter elite looked down on industry • More interested in reviving the “Old South” than a new south

  7. Due to the railroad boom that did hit SC, major cities grew as a result of their location (near RR routes) • Columbia became a regional hub served by over 100 routes a day • These transcontinental trains promoted the establishment of time zones

  8. Workers were unable to organize to improve their conditions • Union organizers were immediately fired and the organized labor movement was consistently crushed by the mill owners • The United States government backed the interests of the mill owners rather than the workers as did the political leadership of South Carolina

  9. Cottonseed oil, lumber, and phosphates for fertilizers increased after Reconstruction • Phosphate rock that was found near Charleston and Beaufort was a major part of commercial fertilizer that was produced in the state for about twenty years after the Civil War. • In the Beaufort area, phosphate mining never recovered after the 1893 hurricane. • When rich phosphate deposits were found in Florida, South Carolina companies went out of business.

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