Industrial Revolution

By J. Collins

The IR is when people stopped making stuff at home and started making stuff in factories.

Industrial Revolution

Cottage Industry

Factory system

 His cotton gin removed the seeds out of raw cotton.

Cotton gin

 The steam engine was not just a transportation device. It ran entire factories the way rivers used to.

Steam Engine

Steam engine

Railroads

 The transcontinental railroad made travel across the country faster, cheaper and more efficient.

Transcontinental RR

 The transcontinental RR met in Utah

 Canals are manmade waterways dug between 2 large bodies of water. The Erie Canal was a short cut from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.

Canals

Erie Canal 1825

 The Panama Canal was a shortcut from the Atlantic to the Pacific (or backwards).

Panama Canal

Panama Canal

 Samuel Morse invented the telegraph. It communicated using a series of beeps (Morse code).

Telegraph

 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

telephone

 Andrew Carnegie owned US Steel.

Robber Barons

 Steel Mill at night.

 John D. Rockefeller owned the railroads and the oil industries

Robber Barons

 Carnegie and Rockefeller ran their competition out of business. A monopoly is when one company controls the entire industry.

Monopoly

 The light bulb allowed factories to work at night.

Thomas Edison

 Phonograph

 Motion picture camera

Edisons inventions

Immigration

 Immigrants come to the USA for jobs and opportunities.

Pull factors

 Pull factors are good stuff to bring immigrants here like jobs.

 Jobs pulled immigrants here.

 Free land was a pull factor

 Push factors are bad stuff to push immigrants away like war or disease. This is potato famine.

Push factors

 Many immigrants lived in tenements.

tenement

 Many immigrants put their children to work ASAP.

Child labor

 Shoeshine boys

Child labor

 Bowling pin boys

Child labor

 Coal miner boys

Child labor

 Young miner

Child labor

 Girls were preferred over boys. They were paid less, had smaller hands.

Any questions before quiz?

Progressivism

 Progressivism is a series of reform movements during the late 1800 and early 1900s.

Progressivism

Progressives sought the following: Temperance Reform of the government Suffrage for women Better working conditions More government regulation Efficient industry

Progressive goals

Temperance Movement

Women fought to ban alcohol in America. They did this without the vote!

Temperance movement

Women would go to saloons and start singing church hymns.

Temperance movement

Later in 1920, they would be successful with the 18th Amendment which banned the sale or production of alcohol.

 YMCA provided charity work for slum neighborhoods like classes and entertainment.

Social welfare

 Progressives wanted big business out of politics. Progressives wanted more popular sovereignty.

Political Reforms

 Secret ballot Progressives wanted people to vote without intimidation.

Political Reforms

 Recall special election to get rid of a politician. Auhnold is governor of CA because of a recall election.

Political Reforms

 Progressives reformed local governments by allowing people to introduce bills (initiative). A referendum is a vote on that initiative.

Political reform

 The Seventeenth Amendment put more power into the peoples hands. It allowed for the direct election of US Senators. Before, state legislators would choose. Here are the Texas Senators:

Political reform

 Progressives wanted big business out of politics. Political machines controlled the political parties.

Political reform

 One famous political machine was the Tammany Ring of NYC.

Political Reform

 Political machines werent all bad. They provided jobs to immigrants and other services

 The Sixteenth Amendment allows for a graduated income tax. That means the rich pay a higher percentage than poor people.

Economic Reform

Womens suffrage

 We hold these truths to be self evident that all men and women are created equal.

Suffragists

 Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the grandmother of the movement

Suffragists

 Women all over the USA and Britain paraded and protested for suffrage.

 Stanton and Susan B. Anthony fought for womens rights.

Womens suffrage

 WWI helped women get the vote because they worked so hard during WWI.

 The Nineteenth Amendment gave womens suffrage.

 Labor unions struggled in the 1800s to fight for better working conditions (shorter work day, workers comp).

Labor Reform

 Unions went on strike, and they turned violent most of the time.

Labor reform

 Skilled labor unions were more successful because they were harder to replace.

Labor unions

 Progressives got laws passed that prohibited child labor.

 Progressives passed laws limiting hours women worked.

 Progressives passed laws requiring workplace safety.

 Workplace safety.

Progressive Presidents

Theodore Teddy Roosevelt

 Teddy was the youngest president in history at the time.

Trust buster

 Roosevelt read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, a muckraker

 As a result, he passed the Meat Inspection Act and the Food and Drug Act

1906

 While some progressives fought industry with labor unions and government regulation, others helped industry by using science in the workplace.

Efficient industry

 Taylorism increasing efficiency through studies of human motion.

 Henry Ford learned that the less people had to move, the faster they would work.

Industrial efficiency

Fords assembly line

 The first cars were very expensive.

 The Model T was the first car that middle class people could afford.

Model T

 The assembly line lowered the cost of the Model T from $825 to $300.

Model T

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