1. Industrial Revolution

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

3. Cottage Industry

4. Factory system

5. Cotton gin
His cotton gin removed the seeds out of raw cotton.

8. Steam Engine
The steam engine was not just a transportation device. It ran entire factories the way rivers used to.

9. Steam engine

10. Railroads

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

14. The transcontinental RR met in Utah

15. 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.

16. Erie Canal 1825

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

18. Panama Canal

20. Telegraph
Samuel Morse invented the telegraph. It communicated using a series of beeps (Morse code).

21. telephone
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

22. Robber Barons
Andrew Carnegie owned US Steel.

24. Steel Mill at night.

25. Robber Barons
John D. Rockefeller owned the railroads and the oil industries

27. Monopoly
Carnegie and Rockefeller ran their competition out of business.
A monopoly is when one company controls the entire industry.

29. Thomas Edison
The light bulb allowed factories to work at night.

30. Phonograph

31. Edison’s inventions
Motion picture camera

32. Immigration

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

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

36. Jobs pulled immigrants here.

37. Free land was a pull factor

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

39. Many immigrants lived in tenements.

40. tenement

41. Child labor
Many immigrants put their children to work ASAP.

42. Child labor
Shoeshine boys

43. Child labor
Bowling pin boys

44. Child labor
Coal miner boys

45. Child labor
Young miner