MT2: Industrialization and Immigration LT #1: What allowed the USA to change from agricultural based to industrial based?

Terms Industrialization- To go from agricultural based to using resources to quickly create things with machines and factories

How did the USA make Money? Before industrialization: Farming, selling crops Small businesses (family owned) Trading natural resources to other industrialized countries https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LbAOseDs3KY

1st Natural Resources USA so large they have an abundance of natural resources needed for a country to industrialize. Oil Iron Coal Land Water (rivers) Gold, silver Forest (timber) United States used oil, coal, and timber as fuel to run factories. Land and water provided a way to transport these natural resources to the factories in the cities. Watch video on how steam power was created with oil and water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73txXT21aZU&list=PLXbeKvvVTKqVjN5HaAkKRfU-cZpDpnhE1&index=5

2nd Immigrants- Workers Came for jobs Most lived in cities Took any job = low paying Worked in factories, mining, building buildings, building railroads, as servants China Italians Greeks Poles (Poland) Russians Armenians With the increase immigrants , Americans began to feel nativism (preference to native born people) Watch video on Nativism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHXXfG5f81Y

3rd Technological Advancements Telephone Electricity Ice machine (refrigerator) Railroad Effect Communication improved Business stayed open later, more products were created Fragile products no longer spoiled, could travel longer distances United the country, cut the cost of transporting products and increased speed of delivery

Effect: US Becomes an industrialized nation The steady supply of natural resources + The new technological advances in industrialization + Created too many products that could not be sold in USA The United states began to sell/trade their surplus of products to other countries USA becomes a world wide industrial power They made the most products and sold the most = $$$$$$$$

What allowed the USA to become industrialized? Assignment Go back and look at learning goal Go back into notes and highlight Create a tree map What allowed the USA to become industrialized?   Natural Resources Immigrants Technological advances What? How effect USA?