1. A New Industrial Age

2. The expansion of industry

3. Objectives
Explain how an abundance of natural resources, new recovery methods, and new uses for them lead to intensive industrialization
Identify inventions that changed the way people lived and worked

4. Natural Resources Fuel Industry
Only 60 years after the Civil War, U.S. has moved from an Agrarian society to the leading industrial nation
Why?
Wealth of natural resources
Government support of business
Growing urban population
Aided by immigration
Cheap labor

5. Natural Resources Fuel Industry
Black Gold
Edwin L. Drake
1st to practically remove oil via steam engine in Titusville, PA
Distilled in kerosene
The by product, gasoline, was originally thrown away

6. Natural Resources Fuel Industry
Bessemer Steal Process
Iron
Dense
Easley breaks and rusts
If you remove the carbon from inside iron ore, you can create steel
Bessemer Steal Process
Injecting air into molten iron to remove carbon and other impurities
Eventually replaced by open-hearth process
Could use scrap and raw materials

7. Natural Resources Fuel Industry
New Uses for Steel
Railroad
Tracks
Agriculture
Barbwire
Farm machinery
Infrastructure
Bridges
Skyscrapers

8. Inventions Promote Change
The Power of Electricity
Thomas Edison
Incandescent Light bulb
Factors break free
No longer need to be near power sources/water

9. Inventions Promote Change
Inventions Change Lifestyles
New jobs for women
Christopher Sholes
Typewriter
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Watson
Telephone
1890 < 5%
1910 ~40%
Industrialization of Workforce
textile/garment
Workers standard of living