Section 2: Big business and Organized Labor
Section 3: Cities grow and Change
Section 4:The new immigrants
Section 5: Education and Culture
Ready for the biggest chapter so far?
Section 1
- as the nation expanded, conditions were ripe for industrtial growth
- the towering forests of the Pacific Northwest furnished lumber for building
- government policy favored industrial growth
- Congress gave land grants to railroads and other businesses.
- The government kept high tariffs on imports
- Technology was another factor that spurred industrial growth.
- In the 1850's, inventors developed the Bessemer process, a method to make stronger steel at a low cost.
- Steel quickly replaced iron as the basic building material of cities and industry
- Pittsburgh became the nation's steel-making capitol
- Workers near Titusville, Pennsylvania, tapped a new source of energy in 1859
- railroads fueled industrial growth
- Some big lines competed in business
- High rates angered small farmers who relied on railroads to get their goods on the markets
- All the competition cause traffic
Inventions!!!
- the light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera- Thomas Edison
- the telephone- Alexander Graham Bell
- cheaper, stronger shoes- Jam Matzeliger
- Lightweight camera- George Eastman
- the type writer- Christopher Sholes
- the automobile-European engineers
- mass-production cars(assembly line)- Henry Ford
- airplane- Wilbur and Orville Wright (AIR TRAVEL)
CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT WAS ONLY SECTION ONE? NEITHER CAN WE!!! AHHHH! aNOTHER FOUR SECTIONS TO GO!!! BUT NOT NOW!!!!
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