Changes in the United States

Vocab for Ch. 17 page 384 Industrial Revolution Homestead Act Monopoly Urbanization Populism Progressivism Sherman Antitrust Act defraud

Vocabulary Activity

Fold a paper in half twice to create four boxes

Define each vocab term by creating a picture or series of pictures that represents the definition.

After you have created your picture define the key terms in your own words in the box with the corresponding picture.

The Rise of Industry in the United States

Railroads- linked all parts of the nation and carried raw materials to factories

Steel- low cost metal that was easily produced and used to build railroads, factories, tools, and skyscrapers

Railroads lead industrial development Homestead Act- gave free land in the

west if you farmed it for 5 years Transcontinental Railroad- connected

Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Union Pacific and Central Pacific were

given the task to construct a route through the middle of the country.

Paid $16,000 per mile of flat land $48,000 per mile through mountains

Steel replaces iron

Steel is purified iron ore and better than iron

Andrew Carnegie was responsible for the growth of the US steel industry.

Produced his own steel at a lower cost and did so more quickly.

Steel then replaced iron and became the most important building material in the industrial era

Discovery of “black gold” Black Gold- oil Oil had to be refined to be useful John D Rockefeller created Standard

Oil Company that controlled 90% of the refining industry

Rockefeller created a monopoly or total control in an industry.

He did this by setting prices and controlling supply

Inventions

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone which dramatically changed communication

Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, motion picture camera, light bulb, and the electrical power plant

Patent- legally prevents someone from coping another persons invention

Inventions Timeline

With a partner create a timeline of when you think the following major inventions happened. (1900-2012)

1.HD TV 7.The computer mouse2.Car 8.YouTube3.Helicopter 9.the first video game4.Velcro 10.airplane 5.McDonalds 11.Air Conditioner6.Mobile phones 12.Atomic Bomb

Manufacturing

Henry Ford in 1903 complete the first car or “horseless carriage”

Assembly line- Ford used to create cars more quickly and efficiently. One person responsible for one part. The car traveled along a conveyer belt as each person added their part

Able to produce 146 cars per hour or 1 car every 25 seconds

Robber Barons or captains of industry Some people considered Carnegie,

Rockefeller, and Ford to be thieves that took advantage of their workers and destroyed competitors

Others saw them as captains of industry who made the United States into the greatest industrial power in the world.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Answer questions 1-5 on page 3891. Summarizing- Describe the building of the

first transcontinental railroad.2. How did steelmaking change between 1850

and 1900?3. Why are the growth of railroads and

steelmaking examples of the Industrial Revolution in America?

4. How did Edison, Rockefeller, Graham Bell, and Ford change the way people lived

5. What problems might have been created by the growth of industry?

Journal Entry (Ch.17.2) Read pages 390-392 Write an journal entry (2 paragraphs) from

the perspective of a family moving into the city for work. You can choose to be a farmer or an immigrant.

Make sure you explain why you are moving into the city.

Tell where you are from (what state/country) and where you are settling (city/state).

Describe how your new life is different. From your house to your surroundings

Changes to farming

New methods – rotating crops, fertilizers

New tools – steel plows and tractors Transportation – improved market for

selling goods Problems – new methods and

equipment meant less farmers needed;

Urbanization – farmers moved to cities in look for jobs

Ellis Island

Immigration station off the coast of New York where immigrants were made to stop to go through a series of exams before entering the U.S.

Immigration

Industries needed workers Immigrants from Poland, Russia,

Austria-Hungary, Italy, Greece, Turkey

Settled in Northeast and Midwest Chinese – brought in for railroads,

settled in California Industrial development still slow in

south

Problems in Cities

New jobs - teachers, doctors, bankers, lawyers, service (restaurants, police, fire fighters)

Problems – Overcrowding, poverty Tenements – small run down

apartment buildings often shared by many families

Rich became richer Construction of skyscrapers

Populism

Inflation- rise in pricesFocused on meeting needs of common

peopleGave farmers and workers a greater voiceBetter working conditions, 8 hour work

day, higher wagesLabor Unions – organized to give workers

better wages and working conditionsStrike – shut down of factory organized by

unions to get demands

Progressivism Reform of city life, but not limited to cities Jane Addams – Hull House Initiative – voters propose laws Referendum – voters vote directly Sherman Anti-Trust Act – illegal for

company to control entire industry Teddy Roosevelt – 1st Progressive President

– youngest president ever elected The Jungle – book exposed meat packaging

industry

Notes for Video

The Jungle Name three problems mentioned in

the video. Identify 3 solutions to the problems

mentioned.

Assembly Line

Engineer – traces stencil onto piece of paper

Production – Cuts outline out of paper

Assemblers - put boxes together Efficiency Mgr/Quality Control – Takes

notes on what group is doing right and wrong, how they can improve/ inspects quality of boxes – throws out poor quality boxes

Cottage Industry

Job titles Same as above but there are only

three students in a group. 2 students split the jobs of Engineer, Production, and Assembler, while 3rd is Efficiency Mgr/Quality Control