1. The New Industrial Age Chapter 14

2. New Inventions ► Discovery of oil – Black Gold ► Development of Steel – iron with carbon removed (Bessemer Process)  Much harder and durable  Made high-rise buildings possible ► Thomas Edison – Harnessed electricity and invented the light bulb ► Typewriter ► Telephone – Alexander Graham Bell

4. Activity ► Make a list of all the things that you would not be able to do in your life today without the inventions on the previous slide. ► List all the things that you can do without these inventions.

5. Sports ► Baseball, Basketball, Volleyball and Football all invented in America in the mid to late 1800’s

6. Age of the Railroad ► Transcontinental railroad – a train track that went from the east coast to the west coast. ► Time Zones ► Railroad Towns ► Shipping of goods – mail order catalogs ► Big $$$

8. Business Evolves ► Andrew Carnegie  Vertical integration – owning all aspects of a business (supplier, manufacturer and shipper)  Horizontal integration – companies producing similar products merge ► Monopoly – one business has total control of a product (John D. Rockefeller with oil) ► Social Darwinism – only strong companies should survive, weak ones should die  No government help

10. Workers Fight Back ► Labor Unions ► Desired better conditions  12 hour days, 6 days a week, no vacation, no insurance, no compensation if hurt on the job  Low wages  Child labor  Unequal pay for men and women (267:498 per year) ► STRIKE!!! – stop working to gain benefits

11. The Pullman Strike

12. Essay Question ► ► Was Rockefeller a threat to the republic or a benefactor to the millions of average Americans? Explain and make sure to include support for your opinion.

13. FREE BINGO!!!

14. Vocab Natural Rights Separation of Powers Constitution Bicameral Ratify Veto Amend Neutrality Embargo Blockade Interchangeable Parts Mass Production Nationalism Civil Disobedience Abolition Emancipation Strike Union Specialization Entrepreneur Capitalism Manifest Destiny Underground Railroad Union Confederacy Ironclad Assassinate Reconstruction Sharecropping Segregation Assimilation Gold Standard Monopoly Patriot Minutemen History Government Economy Nomadic Colonization Conquistador Joint Stock Company Indentured Servant Puritan Tolerance Cash Crop Slave Enlightenment Boycott Martial Law