1. Industrialization

2. Learning Targets
I can analyze the causes and effects of the Second Industrial Revolution.
I can identify and describe key people during the Second Industrial Revolution.

3. Big Picture Changes From 1800 to the present…
World’s population increases 6-fold
Majority of people begin living in cities
Health and life expectancy improve
Quality of life improves, but social class gap widens
Immigration increases

4. Uses for Natural Resources
Uses were found for oil
Used to light lamps
Gasoline wasn’t useful until automobiles were invented
Efficient production of steel
Railroad tracks
Barbed wire
Cans
Brooklyn Bridge
Skyscrapers (1st one was in Chicago)

5. Importance of Railroads
Nationwide network of rail lines built.
Many Chinese immigrated to work on them.
Led to creation of time zones.
Allowed people to access remote areas more easily.
Allowed new towns and markets to form.
Cornelius Vanderbilt owned many railroads.

6. Biltmore Estate Vanderbilt family used wealth to build it.
Still the largest privately-owned house in U.S.

7. Electricity & Telephones
Thomas Edison
Improved the light bulb (1879)
Led to cheap, accessible electricity
Alexander Graham Bell
Invented the telephone (1876)
Did not become common until 20th century

8. Other New Inventions Electric motor (1873) Phonograph (1877)
Radio (1895)
Movies (1895)
X-ray machine (1895)
Airplanes (1903)
Automobiles ( ish)

9. Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?
Cared only about wealth
No social conscience
Exploited workers
Low pay
No benefits
Dangerous conditions
Transformed America’s economy
Ingenious and industrious
Philanthropists

10. Leaders of Major Industries
Cornelius Vanderbilt – Railroads
John D. Rockefeller – Oil
Andrew Carnegie – Steel
J.P. Morgan – Banking

11. Learning Targets
I can identify things that resulted from the Second Industrial Revolution.
I can identify key people during the Second Industrial Revolution.  