Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution The IR is when people stopped making stuff at home and started making stuff in factories. Industrial Revolution

Cottage Industry

Factory system

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.

Steam engine

Railroads

Transcontinental RR The transcontinental railroad made travel across the country faster, cheaper and more efficient.

The transcontinental RR met in Utah

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.

Erie Canal 1825

Panama Canal The Panama Canal was a shortcut from the Atlantic to the Pacific (or backwards).

Panama Canal

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.

Steel Mill at night.

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.

Phonograph

Edison’s inventions Motion picture camera

Immigration

Pull factors Immigrants come to the USA for jobs and opportunities.

Pull factors are good stuff to bring immigrants here like jobs.

Jobs pulled immigrants here.

Free land was a pull factor

Push factors Push factors are bad stuff to push immigrants away like war or disease. This is potato famine.

Many immigrants lived in tenements.

tenement

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