2. Warm Up
Personal choices often affect not only your life, but the life of others. Give one example of a choice settlers made during Westward Expansion that impacted the lives of others.

3. Objectives
Content: Choose one inventor and defend why his invention was the most important.
Language: List the 2 inventors and their inventions/innovations.

4. Inventions

5. The Growth of Industry
After the Civil War, the United States was transformed from an agricultural to an industrial nation.
One reason for growth was new inventions

6. Inventions and Innovations
1.) The Electric Light Bulb (1879)
Thomas Edison “The Wizard of Menlo Park”
Perfected the light bulb
Also either invented or contributed to the first power plants, phonograph, motion picture projector and the storage battery
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7. Inventions and Innovations
3.) “Model T” (1908)
Henry Ford
Established his first automobile plant in Michigan.
The Model T sold for $825.00
First to use the assembly line

9. Warm-Up
What do the items in this suitcase tell you about the person it belonged to?
Why do you think this person would come to the U.S.?

10. Objectives
Content: Determine if the factors leading to immigration were push or pull. Language: List the 4 reasons people immigrated to the United States after the Civil War.

11. IMMIGRATION

12. What is immigration?
Immigration is the movement of people from one country to another

13. What is immigration?
An immigrant is someone who comes into another country.
An emigrant is someone who exits their own country.

14. New Immigration

15. Immigrants have been coming to America since the 1600s
Immigrants have been coming to America since the 1600s. But the immigration we are talking about now took place much later! After the 1880’s!

16. New Immigration
New immigration is the wave of immigration from to During this time, 23 million immigrants enter the United States.
The peak decade was
Most “new immigrants” came from southern and eastern Europe.

17. Immigration was a combination of Push/Pull factors
Push- reasons they left home country
Pull- reasons they came to the U.S.
Crop Failure/Famine
Land and Job Shortages
Rising Taxes
Religious and/or Political Discrimination
Disease
Freedom
Join Families
Economic Opportunity
Wealth
Jobs

18. So why did Immigration increase after the Civil War?
Because of HEAR!
Hope for better opportunities
Escape from oppressive government
Adventure
Religious freedom