Module 2.1

Module 2

Industry and Urban Growth

Section 1:

A New Industrial Revolution

Multiple Select

Select all that apply to you...

• I like to buy my clothes rather than sew them by hand

• I like to turn on the lights rather than see by candle light.

• I prefer to drive places, rather than walk or take a horse and carriage.

• I like to use my phone to contact people rather than write a letter and mail it.

• I prefer to buy my steaks at the grocery store, rather than hunt, kill, and process a cow myself.

Section 1

You like clothes bought in a store, pre-packaged meat, cars to drive you places, talking to someone over the phone, and electricity.....

You can thank the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION! 






EQ: How do technological innovations cause an
industrial revolution?

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Technology makes me think of.....

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Examples of industry are.....

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When I think of a "revolution" I think about....

Tariffs​

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What is a tariff?

What is the purpose of a tariff?

Whom does a tariff benefit: business, consumers or both?

Watch the video on the next slide and answer these questions in your notes!

Why Industry Boomed

• The nation is moving west
• Natural resources are available…in larger

quantities
– Coal
– Iron
– Lead copper
– Pacific northwest

timber

• Railroads can now ship them faster because of

The Transcontinental Railroad connecting E and W

Oil in them thar hills…

• Titusville, PA (1859)

– Workers discover oil
– Drake’s Well

• First viable well to
Produce crude oil

– Later refined into

• machine lubricants
• Gasoline

– This will be needed for the upcoming automobile revolution

Steel and Oil
• The Bessemer process (1850s)

– Stronger steel at a lower cost
– Steel replaces iron for

construction (stronger &. lighter)

- Pittsburgh

- Steel making
- capital of US,

and world

- Local coal mines
- provided

cheap fuel

Railroad Boom

• Trains carry goods and people west

– Sleeper cars + cargo trains = more $$$

• Railroad Companies compete

– More options = lower prices for customers

• Companies bought each other out to raise prices

– Penna. RR bought 73 smaller companies
– Secret discounts for “best” customers (largest)

• Small businesses and individual passengers (farmers) still

paid full price… that seems fair, right?

Open Ended

Why did Industry boom?

Inventors &

Inventions

Thomas Edison
- numerous inventions
over his lifetime
- LIGHTBULB

- allowed for work and
leisure after sunset

- also phonograph
- and movie camera
- Has become the example
of the quintessential
American inventor /
entrepreneur

Multiple Select

Thomas Edison invited the following (check all that apply)

• Telephone

• Lightbulb

• Phonograph

• Automobile

• Movie Camera

Inventors &

Inventions

Alexander Graham Bell
- telephone upgraded the
morse code telegraph
system
- started the corporation
American Telephone &
Telegraph
- most valuable patent
ever

Eastman &

Matzeliger

Some inventions were for
individual people, not
businesses

-Camera (1888)
-Not the first, but one that
didn’t use chemicals or
require training

-The “average customer”
could buy one and use it

-Shoe Lasting Machine (1883)

-Revolutionized the shoe
industry

-Automated a skilled labor task

Transportation changes too…

• Automobiles first developed in Europe (1885)

– Benz…used gasoline + internal combustion
– Later became Mercedes Benz
– Then Henry Ford (1913)

automates the process
• His assembly line makes it

cheaper to own… each worker could earn one

• Each worker on the line repeats the same step in the

assembly process, which saves time and therefore $$$

– By 1917 he had sold 4,500,000 cars in the US

• Roads are now built across the country

The Assembly Line

That’s Henry Ford, by the way

The Wright Brothers

From bicycles to flying

machines

first though to have
little practical
application…
until the military
got involved

Open Ended

How do technological innovations cause an industrial revolution?

Open Ended

Post your questions about the steel and oil industry, the bessemer process, Railroad companies, inventors, or the automobile industry.