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Industrial Revolution Industrial: Work Revolution: Rapid Change So what changed rapidly about work? Change from Muscle Power to Machine Power
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Took place in USA from 1865 to about 1920 Or, if you’re not good with dates, from the end of the Civil War until the end of World War I By 1900 USA had become world’s largest and wealthiest economy 1860: 20% Urban, 80% Rural 1920: 50.1 % Urban, 49.9% Rural 2000: 80% Urban, 20% Rural
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The Shop
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The Factory
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The Impact of the Railroads Before the railroads, each town kept its own time, based on the position of the sun. Railroad companies, however, needed more exact time tables. They devised a system with four time zones – eastern, central, mountain and pacific time. Every place within the same time zone observed the same time.
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From 1860 to 1910 over 210,000 miles of railroad was built in the United States 1918
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What Industries Grew With the Railroads? Steel Lumber
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#4 Read Chapter 14 sections 1 & 3 Do Skillbuilders pp. 437, 453 p.456 Terms and Names 1,2,6,7; Main Idea Questions 1,2,5,6
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Henry Bessemer In 1859 he invented a new process for making steel. Lowered production cost from $50 a ton to $7 a ton
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The Bessemer Process
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Andrew Carnegie Scottish immigrant who realized the possibilities of the Bessemer process. Created the modern American steel industry
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· Carnegie gave $350 million of his $400 million fortune to charities, including $60 million to build libraries. Harper's Weekly April 11, 1903
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Bessemer Converter
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“A modern blast furnace”
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“Stirring iron in a puddling furnace”
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Pouring steel
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Filling ingot molds with liquid steel
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Open pit iron mine in Northern Minnesota
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Ore docks in Duluth, Minnesota
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Homestead, Pennsylvania, outside of Pittsburgh US Steel Production 1870 – 68000 tons 1900 – 11,000,000 tons 1918 – 44,000,000 tons
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Immigrant ship
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“The melting pot of the steel industry”
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Italian immigrant steelworkers
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Russian Immigrant Steelworkers
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Northern Pacific land brochure …in German Immigrants being “tagged” so they’ll get off at the correct stop
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Immigration to the USA by Year Percent of American population born in a foreign country
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Big tree in the Washington woods
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Big logs on the skid road
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The Skid Road
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Near Arlington
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A donkey engine snaking logs in a chute
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“A group of Finns”
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Cutting the top off a spar tree
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High lead logging
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Loading logs onto flat cars
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Bunkhouse on rails
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“Japanese Loggers”
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Edgecomb, Snohomish County (at the north end of the Centennial Trail)
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Clear cut
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Log boom in Maine
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Cigar raft on the Pacific coast
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The Mill Pond
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A double edge saw
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A shingle mill in Washington
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Inside a shingle mill
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Rucker Mill Lake Stevens 1910
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What was the world’s most valuable commodity before the Civil War? What was the world’s most valuable commodity by 1920?
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Indians skimming oil from a creek
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Selling Seneca Oil
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Edwin Drake’s oil well, Titusville, Pennsylvania 1859
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Kerosene Lamps
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John D. Rockefeller His Standard Oil Corporation controlled 90% of US oil business in 1900 World’s first B BB Billionaire when average wage was 14 cents an hour No income tax Worth $200 billion in today’s ($Bill Gates is worth about $70 billion)
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A “Gusher” in Texas 1905
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A lake of oil
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Oil “Boom Town” in Texas
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Oil Wells along a property line
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The Chicago stockyards
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“Hog butcher for the world…” Unloading hogs in Chicago
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The soaking pit
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Dressing carcasses
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Ford’s Model T assembly line Ford began mass producing the Model T in the fall of 1908. It originally cost $850 – by the 1920s the cost was $250 – about $3000 today.
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By 1924 Ford had produced over 10 million Model Ts – ½ of all the cars in the world at that time were Model Ts
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John D. Rockefeller His Standard Oil Corporation controlled 90% of US oil business in 1900 World’s first B BB Billionaire when average wage was 14 cents an hour No income tax Worth $200 billion in today’s ($Bill Gates is worth about $70 billion)
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The Corporation A form of business organization that became increasingly popular during the Industrial Revolution As businesses got bigger, it took larger and larger amounts of CAPITAL ($$) to start such a business 3 major advantages of a corporation: –C–C–C–Can raise money through the sale of STOCK – shares of ownership in the corporation –L–L–L–Limited Liability – stockholders are not liable for debts of the corporation larger than what they have already invested –I–I–I–Immortality – Corporations outlive their individual owners
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