Industrial Revolution American History – Henrichsen

Machinery  Engines  Steam  Water  Gasoline  Factories  Clothing  Goods  Assembly Line  Uneducated labor  Many jobs available  Mass production

Inventions  Refrigerated rail cars  Typewriter  Kodak camera  Elevator  Cable and Electric streetcar  Fountain Pen  Gillette Razor  Cash Register  Vacuum Cleaner  Which of these inventions has most affected our lives today?  What do you think you could invent that would affect future society?

Child Labor  The new source of labor  Small and easy to fit inside the machinery  Destroyed the body  Long hours

Labor Unions  Workers got together to encourage safety, better pay, as well as continued jobs when the government and society were pro- business  Laws were created to specifically ban unions as they were seen as anti-business and possibly communist  Anti-immigrant ideas used to support many of the anti-union laws

Women Workers  Right to vote  still not there  Workers in factories  Pay is always less then men  Preferred for some jobs as they were smaller and easier to fit in the small spaces  Definite ties to the garment industry  Education  Social Influence

Politics  Political Machines – Boss Tweed  Corruption  Close ties to business  Not seen as a problem  Thomas Nast

Immigration  Not a unified group as many seem today.  Many divisions and hatred especially to those who were from either the poorer and/or Catholic areas of Europe  There were specific rules against immigration from Asia based on racism and cultural differences  A move to send Black Americans back to Africa was led by Marcus Garvey and eventually started the country of Liberia

Monopolies  Vertical  Control every aspect of a single product from production to the final sales and distribution  US Oil  US Steel  Horizontal  Control a single level of a product ie all distribution, sales or production  Microsoft

Social Darwinism  Misapplication of Darwin’s theories on evolution to areas of society such as money and inherited wealth and land  Usually referred specifically to those of a different ethnic and/or religious background

Social Gospel  Reaction to Social Darwinism  Provides good works to the people of the US based on religion  Includes ideas such as settlement houses, aid to single mothers, immigrants  Jane Addams – Hull House