1. Industrial America and Westward Expansion
People, Events, and Places
terms of the
Industrial America and Westward Expansion

2. Week 1
2nd Industrial Revolution Mechanization Coca Cola Bottling in Chattanooga Transcontinental Railroad

3. 2nd Industrial Revolution
Known as the Technological Revolution, was a phase of the larger Industrial Revolution
Sometime between 1840 and 1860 until World War I
Examples- Electricity, Automobiles, Airplanes

4. Mechanization Using machines to do work
Examples: reaper (machine that cuts grain) & threshing machine (separated the grain from the plant stalks)
Threshing Machine
Reaper

5. Coca Cola Bottling in Chattanooga, TN
Site of the World’s first Coca-Cola Bottling Company

6. Transcontinental Railroad
A railroad across the continent
Union Pacific began building track west from Omaha, Nebraska
Central Pacific began building track east from Sacramento, California (C for Central and C for California)
On May 10, 1869, the tracks of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific met at Promontory Point, Utah Territory

7. Protectionism Nativism Settlers Homestead Act
Week 2
Protectionism Nativism Settlers Homestead Act

8. Protectionism
Economic policy of America during this time.
Belief that new industry in America needed to be protected against stronger, foreign industry.

9. Nativism Policy to protect native-born people against immigrants
During this time: greatest number of European immigrants on east coast and Chinese immigrants on west coast brought huge numbers of inexpensive labor.

10. Settlers
Person who has migrated to an area and lived there.
Many people moved from east to west during Western Expansion

11. Homestead Act was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln
on May 20, 1862.
Anyone who had never taken
up arms against the U.S. government (including freed slaves and women), was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant.

12. Week 2 Cumulative
2nd Industrial Revolution Mechanization Coca Cola Bottling in Chattanooga Transcontinental Protectionism Nativism Settlers Homestead Act

13. Buffalo Soldiers George Jordan Great Plains Gilded Age
Week 3
Buffalo Soldiers George Jordan Great Plains Gilded Age

14. Buffalo Soldiers Made up of African American soldiers
protected settlers as they moved west and to support the westward expansion by building the infrastructure needed for new settlements to flourish

15. George Jordan a former slave from Nashville, TN. a Buffalo soldier
Jordan led his soldiers to
hold back a force of more
than 100 Indians.
Jordan and 19 of his men
again held their ground
while being attacked by
a group of Apaches.

16. Great Plains
Land that lies west of Mississippi River and East of Rocky Mountains in United States.
Homestead Act attracted many people to move to the Great Plains.
Life on Great Plains was hard.

17. Gilded Age From the 1870s to about 1900.
Term was coined by writer Mark Twain in The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873)
Meaning: thin gold layer on top of major social problems

18. Week 3 Cumulative
2nd Industrial Revolution Mechanization Coca Cola Bottling in Chattanooga Transcontinental Protectionism Nativism Settlers Homestead Act Buffalo Soldiers George Jordan Great Plains Gilded Age

19. American Federation of Labor
Week 4
Child Labor
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Entrepreneurs
Thomas Edison

20. Child Labor The use of children to work in industry.
Children often had to work to help support their families.
Children were paid less money than adults.

21. Samuel Gompers One of the early labor union leaders in the U.S.
A labor union is where people work together to gain improved working conditions.
Formed the American Federation of Labor

22. American Federation of Labor
Founded by Samuel Gompers
Brought many workers’ unions together to fight for:
better wages
an 8-hour work day
safer working conditions
end to child labor.

23. Entrepreneurs
A person who starts a new business, hoping to make a profit.
Example: Sam Walden started Walmart

24. Thomas Edison Inventor who helped change the world.
He had over one-thousand inventions (1,093)
He perfected the light-bulb
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

25. Week 4 Cumulative
2nd Industrial Revolution Mechanization Coca Cola Bottling in Chattanooga Transcontinental Protectionism Nativism Settlers Homestead Act Buffalo Soldiers George Jordan Great Plains Gilded Age

26. Week 5
Alexander Graham Bell George Washington Carver Swift and Armour Henry Ford George Eastman Henry Bessemer Cornelius Vanderbilt

27. Alexander Graham Bell Inventor Invented first working telephone
Developed techniques to teach the deaf

28. George Washington Carver
Former slave
Founded the Tuskegee Institute in 1881
He encouraged African American businesses
Taught equal rights could be gained through education, hard work, and understanding.

29. Swift and Armour Meat packing company
Used refrigeration during shipping to keep meat from spoiling.

30. Henry Ford Inventor and Entrepreneur
Started Ford Motor Company where he manufactured cars using an assembly line.
Developed Model T car

31. George Eastman Inventor and Entrepreneur Popularized Role Film
Started Kodak company

32. Henry Bessemer Inventor
Developed a new way to make steel, called the Bessemer process.
Made it possible to produce steel in massive quantities.

33. Cornelius Vanderbilt
Entrepreneur
Got rich through his railroads and shipping
Richest man alive during this time.

34. Week 5 Cumulative
2nd Industrial Revolution Mechanization Coca Cola Bottling in Chattanooga Transcontinental Protectionism Nativism Settlers Homestead Act Buffalo Soldiers George Jordan Great Plains Gilded Age Alexander Graham Bell George Washington Carver Swift and Armour Henry Ford George Eastman Henry Bessemer Cornelius Vanderbilt

35. Week 6
Spanish American War Yellow Journalism U.S.S. Maine Rough Riders Imperialism

36. Spanish American War
a conflict between the United States and Spain in 1898
The war officially lasted four months(108 days) when the U.S. and Spanish governments signed the Treaty of Paris
Results: Cuba is independent and Guam and Puerto Rico belong to the United States.

37. Yellow Journalism
The Spanish-American War is often referred to as the first "media war."
Journalism that hyped—and sometimes even made up—dramatic events and helped push the United States into war with Spain.

38. U.S.S. Maine
A massive explosion of unknown origin sinks the battleship USS Maine in Cuba’s Havana harbor, killing 260 of the fewer than 400 American crew members aboard.
Spain was blamed

39. Rough Riders the most famous of all the units fighting in Cuba
the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt.

40. Imperialism
A policy in which a strong nation (America) seeks to dominate other countries (Puerto Rico, Philippines, and Guam) politically, socially, and economically.
Some Americans did not like the idea of the United States playing the part of an imperial power with foreign colonies.

41. Week 6 Cumulative Child Labor Samuel Gompers
2nd Industrial Revolution
Henry Bessemer
Mechanization
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Coca Cola Bottling in Chattanooga
Alexander Graham Bell
George Washington Carver
Transcontinental
Spanish American War
Protectionism
Yellow Journalism
Nativism
U.S.S. Maine
Settlers
Rough Riders
Homestead Act
Imperialism
Buffalo Soldiers
Child Labor
George Jordan
Samuel Gompers
Great Plains
American Federation of Labor
Gilded Age
Swift and Armour
Entrepreneurs
Henry Ford
Thomas Edison
George Eastman

42. Week 7
Anti-Trust Laws 16th Amendment 17th Amendment 18th Amendment 19th Amendment Ida B. Wells Randolph Miller

43. Anti-Trust Laws Trusts
several companies who joined together to control whole industries.
They could control the whole industry
Anti-Trust Laws
Laws to stop companies from controlling the whole industry and charging higher prices

44. 16th Amendment
1913 Congress has the power to tax all people directly based on their income.

45. 17th Amendment
1913 Two senators will represent each state in Congress, each elected for six-year terms, and each elected by the voters.

46. 18th Amendment
1919 The making, selling, and transportation of alcohol anywhere in the United States is outlawed.

47. 1920 Women are given the right to vote.
19th Amendment
1920 Women are given the right to vote.

48. Ida B. Wells
African American Journalist
Worked for equal rights for African Americans
Worked to help women get the right to vote

49. Randolph Miller
Emancipated slave
Tennessean
Journalist
Spoke out for equal rights for African Americans

50. Week 7 Cumulative
2nd Industrial Revolution Mechanization Coca Cola Bottling in Chattanooga Transcontinental Protectionism Nativism Settlers Homestead Act Buffalo Soldiers George Jordan Great Plains Gilded Age Swift and Armour Henry Ford George Eastman Henry Bessemer Cornelius Vanderbilt Alexander Graham Bell George Washington Carver Spanish American War Yellow Journalism U.S.S. Maine Rough Riders Imperialism Child Labor Samuel Gompers American Federation of Labor Entrepreneurs Thomas Edison Anti-Trust Laws 16th Amendment 17th Amendment 18th Amendment 19th Amendment Ida B. Wells Randolph Miller