1、Industrial RevolutionBy J. CollinsIndustrial RevolutionThe IR is when people stopped making stuff at home and started making stuff in factories.Cottage IndustryFactory systemCotton gin His cotton gin removed the seeds out of raw cotton.Steam Engine The steam engine was not just a transportation devi
2、ce. It ran entire factories the way rivers used to.Steam engineRailroadsTranscontinental RR The transcontinental railroad made travel across the country faster, cheaper and more efficient. The transcontinental RR met in UtahCanals Canals are manmade waterways dug between 2 large bodies of water. The
3、 Erie Canal was a short cut from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.Erie Canal 1825Panama Canal The Panama Canal was a shortcut from the Atlantic to the Pacific (or backwards).Panama CanalTelegraph Samuel Morse invented the telegraph. It communicated using a series of beeps (Morse code).telephone
4、 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.Robber Barons Andrew Carnegie owned US Steel. Steel Mill at night.Robber Barons John D. Rockefeller owned the railroads and the oil industriesMonopoly Carnegie and Rockefeller ran their competition out of business. A monopoly is when one company controls
5、 the entire industry.Thomas Edison The light bulb allowed factories to work at night. PhonographEdisons inventions Motion picture cameraImmigrationPull factors Immigrants come to the USA for jobs and opportunities. Pull factors are good stuff to bring immigrants here like jobs. Jobs pulled immigrant
6、s here. Free land was a pull factorPush factors Push factors are bad stuff to push immigrants away like war or disease. This is potato famine. Many immigrants lived in tenements.tenementChild labor Many immigrants put their children to work ASAP.Child labor Shoeshine boysChild labor Bowling pin boys
7、Child labor Coal miner boysChild labor Young miner Girls were preferred over boys. They were paid less, had smaller hands.Any questions before quiz?ProgressivismProgressivism Progressivism is a series of reform movements during the late 1800 and early 1900s.Progressive goalsProgressives sought the f
8、ollowing:TemperanceReform of the governmentSuffrage for womenBetter working conditionsMore government regulationEfficient industryTemperance 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.Te
9、mperance movement Later in 1920, they would be successful with the 18th Amendment which banned the sale or production of alcohol.Social welfare YMCA provided charity work for slum neighborhoods like classes and entertainment.Political Reforms Progressives wanted big business out of politics. Progres
10、sives 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 reform Progressives reformed local gove
11、rnments 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 Senato
12、rs: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 machines werent all bad. They provided jobs to immigrants and other servicesEconomic Reform T
13、he Sixteenth Amendment allows for a graduated income tax. That means the rich pay a higher percentage than poor people.Womens suffrageSuffragists 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 Wo
14、men all over the USA and Britain paraded and protested for suffrage.Womens suffrage Stanton and Susan B. Anthony fought for womens rights. WWI helped women get the vote because they worked so hard during WWI. The Nineteenth Amendment gave womens suffrage.Labor Reform Labor unions struggled in the 18
15、00s 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 unions Skilled labor unions were more successful because they were harder to replace. Progressives got laws passed that prohibited child labo
16、r. 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 muckrak
17、er As a result, he passed the Meat Inspection Act and the Food and Drug Act1906Efficient industry While some progressives fought industry with labor unions and government regulation, others helped industry by using science in the workplace. Taylorism increasing efficiency through studies of human mo
18、tion.Industrial efficiency Henry Ford learned that the less people had to move, the faster they would work.Fords assembly line The first cars were very expensive.Model T 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.This powerpoint was kindly donated to http:/ is home to over a thousand powerpoints submitted by teachers. This is a completely free site and requires no registration. Please visit and I hope it will help in your teaching.
