big business and the transportation of resources

National markets created by transportation advances

Advertising

Lower-cost productionAnd……

John D. Rockefeller- Oil

Andrew Carnegie- Steel

Henry Ford- Automobile

Andrew Carnegie

John D. Rockefeller

Henry Ford

Access to raw materials and energy

Availability of work force

Inventions

Financial Resources

Financial Resources--Money

Inventions—Light bulb

Workers

Steel

Railroad

Mechanization had reduced farm labor needs and increased production (reaper)

Industrial development in cities created a need for workers

Industrialization provided access to consumer goods (ex. Mail order catalogues)

FarmCity

Moving natural resources to eastern factories

Moving iron ore deposits to sites of steel mills

Transporting finished products to national markets

New England

Detroit

Pittsburgh

Textiles

automobile

Steel

Sources:

Andrew Carnegie

lt.wikipedia.org

John D. Rockefeller

www.voanews.com

Henry Ford

www.nndb.com

Money

http://www.finpipe.com/money.gif

Light Bulb

www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cbecs/bulb1.gif

Workers

http://i.pbase.com/o4/90/516390/1/58183295.workers.jpg

City

www.geocities.com

Textiles

http://www.companyc.com/images/textiles-throws.jpg

Automobiles

http://www.uh.edu/engines/model-t.gif

Railroad

www.umich.edu

Oil

www.cbc.ca

Steel

http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/s/images/steel_kapoor.turning.lg.jpg

Farm

http://www.class.uh.edu/phil/Freeland/pics/Farm.jpg