1. The Second Industrial Revolution
The Age of Invention
Rise of Big Business
Unions Strive to Organize

2. Bell Ringer
Read the TIME magazine article and summarize what you have read by filling in the Snapple caps.

3. Activity
Vocabulary (Chapter)
Chapter 5 Section 1 Guided Reading

4. Bell Ringer
What inventions had greatly influenced lives 100 year ago, today, and what will the invention be that will impact the future?

5. Objectives
Describe how the development of steel and oil refining affected the U.S. industry.
Recount the innovations that were made in transportation.
Explain how innovations in communications technology changed business practices and daily life in the United States.

6. Industrial Innovations
Industrial growth brings a new revolution
Iron is replaced with steel
Oil = “black gold”
Patents protect inventor’s rights

7. Transportation More railroads are created = transcontinental railroad
Consequences: increase in settlement, towns become cities
Economic impact: provides many jobs

8. Transportation Beginning of automobile production
Creating gasoline engines
Kitty Hawk, NC Wright brothers first flight

9. Communications Telegraph – Samuel F.B. Morse (Western Union)
Telephone – Alexander Graham Bell (AT&T)
Typewriter – offers a skilled profession for women

10. Edison and Menlo Park Significant impact on communications
Electricity, light bulbs, phonographs, early motion-picture cameras
New invention every 6 months
Direct current electricity transforms American life

11. The Second Industrial Revolution
The Age of Invention
Rise of Big Business
Unions Strive to Organize

12. Bell Ringer
How much control should the government have in our lives?

13. Objective
Describe the arguments that business leaders and social critics made about government’s role in business.
Recount how business strategies change.
Explain how new methods of marketing products changed American life.

14. A New Capitalist Spirit
Capitalism = private business runs most industries
Horatio Alger discusses the ability to go from “rags to riches”
Karl Marx, opponent, describes the people as bourgeoisie and the proletariat (supports Communism)
Social Darwinism = society progresses through competition

15. The Corporation
Creation of corporation allows society to invest in company with stocks
Control given to a group of people = trust
Monopoly allows company to have complete control of $$$

16. Andrew Carnegie Leader in steel Idea of creating things in bulk
Sells business to J.P. Morgan

17. John D. Rockefeller Founder of the Standard Oil Company
Uses the concept of vertical integration
Controls 90% of refining capacity

18. Railroad Giants Cornelius Vanderbilt George Westinghouse
Controls many RR
George Westinghouse
Air brake
George Pullman
Travelling rail cars
Develops a town

19. Mass Marketing Marketing necessary to persuade customers
Department stores allow another opportunity for women to work

20. Assignment “Do, Say, Think”
Complete the chart for the following people…
Karl Marx
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller

21. The Second Industrial Revolution
The Age of Invention
Rise of Big Business
Unions Strive to Organize

22. Bell Ringer
It is You work in a factory. Last month, your little brother was hurt in a workplace accident, but the company refuses to modify the machine that hurt him. Do you join a union to protest unsafe working conditions, even though the stakes may be high? Why or why not?

23. Government and Business
The Sherman Antitrust Act outlaws monopolies and trusts
Little attention paid to gap between classes
By 1890 – 10% control 75% of nation’s wealth

24. The New Working Class Earn less than $500/year
Jobs filled by immigrants
Blacks barred from work in South
Women and children work in garment factories

25. Working Conditions Work day = 12 hours White men Black men
10 hrs., 6 days, $10/wk.
Black men
Work same, pay less
Unsafe working conditions
Control workers by creating towns

26. The Great Upheaval People react to pay cuts by striking Haymarket Riot
Want an 8 hr. work day
Led by anarchists

27. The Homestead and Pullman Strikes
Few strikes occur at other factories
Eugene V. Debs works to support strikers
President Cleveland restores order with troops

28. Second Industrial Revolution Quiz
Work in pairs to complete the quiz. You are allowed to use your notes and your textbook with the quiz. Only one answer sheet is required. Make sure both names are on the answer sheet. All answers are due at the end of the class period.