1. Chapter 20: Industrialization and Immigration 1860-1914
Section 1
American Enters the Industrial Age

2. Explain: 1. Definition of Industrial Revolution
Chapter 20 Objectives...
Explain:
1. Definition of Industrial Revolution
2. What caused industries to grow so rapidly?

3. Chapter 20 Objectives...
Explain:
3. Why did people immigrate to the U.S. during this time period?
4. How/why labor unions started.

4. Chapter 20 Objectives...
Explain:
5. How did industrialization and technology create a new mass culture in the U.S.?

5. Change from making goods by hand to using machines (mass production).
Industrial Revolution:
Change from making goods by hand to using machines (mass production).
Chapter 11 Section 1, Page 365.
Video Clip: Industrial Revolution

6. Factory system in Britain copied here
Chapter 11-1
Factory system in Britain copied here
Samuel Slater, first mill, Pawtucket, RI
Interchangeable Parts (E.Whitney.)
Lowell, Massachusetts, textile mills
Urbanization – people looking for factory jobs
Show Mill from page 371 in textbook.

7. Mill from textbook.
Ch. 11 Page 371

8. Chapter 11-1
Beginning of Urbanization:
people begin to move to cities looking for factory jobs
Mechanical reaper and other farm technology puts farm hands out of work, they begin to move to cities

9. Chapter 11-1
Developments in Transportation and Communication:
Robert Fulton – Steam Boat
Peter Cooper – built America’s first locomotive train
Samuel Morse – Telegraph and Morse Code

10. Railroad Companies give U.S. Economy Benefits-
Chapter 20-1
Railroad Companies give U.S. Economy Benefits-
Economy: a system of producing and distributing the material needs of a society.

11. 20-1 Railroads Spur Industry
Railroad Companies give the U.S. Economy Benefits...
Transport of raw materials and finished goods
Allowed industries to grow

12. 20-1 Railroads Spur Industry
Railroad Companies give U.S. Economy Benefits...
Created thousands of jobs
Changed the way a business works (corporations)
Opened up entire country to growth

13. The New Steel Industry:
“Bessemer Process”
William Kelly and Henry Bessemer develop way to make cheaper, stronger steel
Output of steel increased 350 times between
Plows, barbed wire, nails, steel beams for skyscrapers, rails for railroad.

14. Edison and Electricity:
1876 Menlo Park, New Jersey.
First stable, long lasting light bulb
Over 1000 patents for his inventions
Invented system to deliver electricity to buildings
1882 – installed first commercial central power system in NY City.

15. New Industries: New inventions become the basis for new industries.
Telephone industry (Bell, 1876). By 1880 over 50,000+ telephones had been sold.
Telephone switchboards = new jobs for women
Elias Howe and Isaac Singer – Sewing Machines. Led to ready made clothing for people, so new industry for clothing production.