1. Industrialization

2. Industrialization Caused by natural resources Black Gold- Oil
Bessemer process- removes impurities in steel

3. Inventions Thomas Edison George Westinghouse
Created the incandescent light bulb and the direst current- travels short distances
George Westinghouse
Created an alternating current- travel long distances

4. Inventions Charles Hires- pharmacist, root beer
Samuel Morse- Invented the telegraph and Western Union

5. Inventions Alexander Graham Bell- Invented the telephone
John & Washington Roebling- Built the Brooklyn Bridge- a suspension bridge

6. Why Industrialization?
Natural resources
Population
Free Enterprise- Laissez faire

7. Railroads
Leland Stanford- "Last Spike" in Promontory, Utah on May 10, 1869, uniting the transcontinental railroad.
Cornelius Vanderbilt- made wealth in railroads

8. Railroads
Land Grants
Gov. offered transcontinental RR companies land along its right-of-way to encourage rapid construction of tracks

9. Railroads
Robber Barons- RR tycoons that built fortunes by swindling people and stocks
Jay Gould- most famous robber baron

10. Industry Consolidation
Andrew Carnegie- U.S. Steel
Gospel of Wealth
Vertical Integration
Horizontal Integration

11. Industry Consolidation
John D. Rockefeller- Standard Oil
Used a trust to gain control of the oil industry in America

12. Industrial Labor Piecework- pay based upon production
Fined or fired for no reason
Child Labor- no rights, harsh conditions, long hours