1. Unit 1: The Gilded Age Industry Comes of Age

2. Bell Ringer:
When was America’s first Industrial Revolution?
What is an Industrial Revolution?
1790s-1830s

3. USA becomes industrialized
USA becomes industrialized!!! What helped the USA become industrial nation? Top 5 Reasons

4. 1. 2nd Industrial Revolution
Revolution of mass production ( )
Ways to make things faster via communication, shipping and making
Need for less skilled workers=less wages=more $$$ for me 
Trains, Coal & Steel major resources of the day!!!!!!

5. 2. RAILROADS! RAILROADS!! Will cause steel industry to BOOM!!!
Tracks made of STEEL!!!
Over 40,000 miles track laid during Gilded Age
More RR track in USA than all of Europe
Importance:
Connects markets (West to East)
Standardized time (time zones)
Gov’t supports 100%

6. 3. Natural Resources Timber, coal, iron and copper
New resource: petroleum
Turned into kerosene
Lanterns and stoves

7. 4. Large Workforce Population: tripled Immigrants!!!!!
Created workforce and demand for manufactured goods
Immigrants!!!!!

8. 5. New Inventions Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Edison
Invented telephone
Make business transaction on spot
Thomas Edison
Invented light bulb
Improved battery and motion picture
Created GE (general electric company)

9. George Westinghouse Christopher Scholes
Created cheaper electric using alternating current (AC)
Competes with Edison and GE
Christopher Scholes
Invented typewriter
women=secretaries

10. Nikola Tesla
Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, emigrated in 1884 to the United States and became a naturalized citizen.
Works with Alternating Current, teams up with George Westinghouse.

11. Why Business ruled?? Federal Gov’t practiced: Free Enterprise
Ppl own means of production w/ little gov’t interference
AKA Laissez-faire: French term, means “to let alone” or hands off

13. The Gilded Age 1865-1898 Coined by Mark Twain
USA not experiencing a Golden Age
Instead glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath

14. Timeline WW2 1861-1865 Civil War 1898: Spanish American War 1939-1945
1850
WW1
Gilded Age

15. Characteristics of Gilded Age
Intense industrialization
Focus on USA
Huge amts of wealth accumulated by few
Political corruption
Wave of immigration (cheap labor)

16. *Unit 1 Vocab, Due Test Day*
Exit Ticket
What does this political cartoon say about the Gilded Age?
*Unit 1 Vocab, Due Test Day*