1. The Rise of Industry Section 5.1 (T&H page 223) Welcome to Beautiful
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Section 5.1 (T&H page 223)

2. Today’s Agenda Day 7 5.1 Slide Show Homework
Letter Home or Diary Entry due Wednesday
Essay or Presentation due next Friday

3. Post Civil War America Centennial Exposition showcases Corliss Engine
Brooklyn Bridge Completed
Lee surrenders at Appomattox
Civil War
Industrial Revolution Begins in America
Abraham Lincoln elected President
Edison lights Pearl Street, NY
Transcontinental RR completed

4. What was America like before the Industrial Revolution?
Agrarian
Rural
Few big cities
Travel is slow and difficult
Very few consumer goods
Products made by skilled craftsmen for local community

5. How did the US change economically after the Civil War?
It Industrialized
Changed from nation of farms to a nation of factories, mines, and railroads
Mass production
Producing large amounts of standardized products
made skilled craftsmen obsolete
Urbanization
People (peasants) left the country and moved to the city
Proletariat (workers)
New social class appeared
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6. Who was Louis Sullivan? Father of the Skyscraper American architect
Great Chicago Fire of 1871
Legend says Mrs. O’Leary’s cow tipped lantern & started fire
Gave Sullivan chance to help rebuild city
Price of steel also began to fall
overcame limits of thick load-bearing walls by using a steel frame
“form follows function"
emphasized the importance of a building’s usefulness over its aesthetic beauty
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7. Describe the technology boom
Patents skyrocketed
thousand patents
1890s- 200 thousand patents
Telephone- Alexander Graham Bell 1876)
Tinkered with electricity and metal disks to replace damaged eardrum for deaf
“Mr. Watson, come here: I want you.”
1878 – 1st phone in White House
million phones
Centennial Exposition of 1876
1st official World’s Fair in Phila
Showcased American inventions
Typewriter, Corliss Engine, Heinz Ketchup
Wright Brothers
1st sustained flight 1903
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8. New York, 1850

9. Describe the Brooklyn Bridge
Longest suspension bridge (1883)
1st to use steel wire
Designed by architects John August Roebling & Washington Roebling
John died of tetanus (just as construction began)
Finished by Washington (& his wife)
Caissons disease
(Bridge is) Both beautiful and functional
A statement of American greatness
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11. Caisson

13. New York, 1873

15. The American Dream

16. Homework
Use the notes above to answer the following. Pretend that you are an immigrant to the United States at the turn of the 20th Century (about 1900). Write a letter back to your home country (or a diary entry) and describe what you see. (About 2 paragraph). Be creative.