Unit 2 - Industrialization

Second Industrial Revolution:

• Trans-Continental Railroad, university in California

• Built mills to mass produce steel

• New process of mass producing steel

• Time period of rapid change, shift towards manufacturing

• New York Central Railroad, nicknamed "Commodore", university with his family's name in Tennessee known as the "Commodores."

Bessemer Process:

• New process of mass producing steel

• Time period of rapid change, shift towards manufacturing

• Trans-Continental Railroad, university in California

• Built mills to mass produce steel

• Individual who discovered new way to mass produce steel

Henry Bessemer:

• Trans-Continental Railroad, university in California

• New process of mass producing steel

• Individual who discovered new way to mass produce steel

• Time period of rapid change, shift towards manufacturing

• New York Central Railroad, nicknamed "Commodore", university with his family's name in Tennessee known as the "Commodores."

Andrew Carnegie:

• Time period of rapid change, shift towards manufacturing

• Built mills to mass produce steel

• Trans-Continental Railroad, university in California

• New process of mass producing steel

• Individual who discovered new way to mass produce steel

Cornelius Vanderbilt:

• New York Central Railroad, nicknamed "Commodore", university with his family's name in Tennessee known as the "Commodores."

• Individual who discovered new way to mass produce steel

• Built mills to mass produce steel

• Trans-Continental Railroad, university in California

• New process of mass producing steel

Leland Stanford:

• Trans-Continental Railroad, university in California

• Built mills to mass produce steel

• Time period of rapid change, shift towards manufacturing

• New York Central Railroad, nicknamed "Commodore", university with his family's name in Tennessee known as the "Commodores."

• Individual who discovered new way to mass produce steel

Edwin Drake:

• Wealthy investment banker used wealth & influence to control electricity, General Electric

• Moving assembly line, mass production of cars

• Oil wells, Titusville, PA

• Controlled oil industry, electricity threatened control he had over lighting people's homes with kerosene

• Invested in Tesla's Alternating Current, World Fair in Chicago

John Rockefeller:

• Wealthy investment banker used wealth & influence to control electricity, General Electric

• Telephone

• Airplane

• Controlled oil industry, electricity threatened control he had over lighting people's homes with kerosene

• Invested in Tesla's Alternating Current, World Fair in Chicago

J.P. Morgan

• Telephone

• Controlled oil industry, electricity threatened control he had over lighting people's homes with kerosene

• Wealthy investment banker used wealth & influence to control electricity, General Electric

• Inventor, Alternating Current

• Inventor of incandescent light bulb, phonograph, 1st electric chair; Direct Current

Thomas Edison:

• Wealthy investment banker used wealth & influence to control electricity, General Electric

• Invested in Tesla's Alternating Current, World Fair in Chicago

• Controlled oil industry, electricity threatened control he had over lighting people's homes with kerosene

• Inventor of incandescent light bulb, phonograph, 1st electric chair; Direct Current

• Inventor, Alternating Current