1. Industrialization: What Factors Caused the U. S
Industrialization: What Factors Caused the U.S. to Industrialize in the late 19th Century?

2. 1. Abundant Raw Materials

3. Ex: Alexander Graham Bell,
2. Inventions/Innovation
Ex: Alexander Graham Bell,
Thomas Edison
Optimism
& Technological
Innovation 8:00-14:00
Also:
Camera
Telegraph
Sewing machine
Record player
X-ray

4. 3. New Kind of Businessmen:The Robber Barons
(Ex: Andrew Carnegie, JD Rockefeller & JP Morgan)

5. New Forms of Business Organization

6. Railroads

7. Steel
Carnegie steals the
Bessemer process

8. Ex: Eastern & Southern European Immigration
4. Abundant Cheap Labor
Ex: Eastern & Southern European Immigration

9. 6:10-8:00 &
14:00-15:00
0-1:45

10. 5. Pro-Business Government
Laissez Faire policy =
no limits on business

11. Problems with Industrialization

12. Exploitation of workers: low pay & dangerous conditions
2:00-5:00

13. Pollution & Environmental Damage

14. Critics Argue that “Trusts” (monopolies) have too much power
-- that they are undemocratic & anti-individual

15. Critics Argue: Govt’ no longer “for the people”