Industrialization

Industrialization

• ​SEVERAL FACTORS LED TO THE INCREASED INDUSTRIAL GROWTH DURING THE CIVIL WAR. THIS LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR POSTWAR PROSPERITY.

• Factories used new tools and methods to produce supplies in big numbers

• Railroads expanded across the nation.

• ​The government encouraged immigration.

Multiple Choice

Which was not a reason for growth in industry after the Civil War?

• The government encouraged building of railroads.

• Factories used new methods.

• Immigration was encouraged.

• Indians were placed on reservations.

​A great many immigrants to the U.S. were pushed from their homelands by:

• Political upheaval at home

• Religious discrimination

• Crop failures

Open Ended

According to the video why did Polish people immigrate to America during the Gilded Age? Try to think of 3 reasons. Push or pull

Open Ended

What reasons cause people to migrate today?

​Capitalism

​The American system of capitalism is one in which individuals own most businesses. These entrepreneurs invest money in products in order to make profits.

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Entrepreneurs fueled industrialization in the late 1800s

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They benefited from laissez-faire policies, which allowed businesses to work under minimal government regulation​

Poll

Do you think a laissez-faire policy towards business is good or bad?

• Good

• Bad

​Thomas Edison was the most prolific inventor of the era.

​He and his team of workers developed the light bulb, the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and hundreds of new products.

Multiple Select

The bessemer process made making steel:

• Cheaper

• Faster

• Stronger

• Slower

Open Ended

What impact do you think the bessemer process had on industrialization?

​Daily Life

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​Because of new inventions such as morse code, the telephone, bessemer process, light bulb, and others life changed dramatically for people in America.

Open Ended

Brainstorm some ways life would change because of new inventions.

​Expanding Railroads

​Cheaper steel lead to an explosion of railroad growth.

• This led to growth of cities

  • Chicago, Atlanta, Pittsburgh

• New inventions

  • Air brakes

  • Refrigerated cars

  • Timezones​

• Growth of industry

  • Access to raw materials

  • New markets

Open Ended

List 3 impacts of the railroad:

Open Ended

What impact do you think mechanization of farming had on life in America?

America exported grain, steel, and textiles in huge amounts and became a world economic power.

Mechanization of farming meant fewer farmers were needed to produce food.

Many Americans moved to cities to find work. URBANIZATION!

Open Ended

Brainstorm: What do you think were some of the negative impacts of rapid industrialization in America?