American Industrial Revolution

Why was it called the "Gilded Age"?

• America had many organizations for immigrants to join.

• America looked bright and shiny from the outside, but had problems, like corruption.

• It was beginning to build many large cities, with skyscrapers.

This invention created steel, which was used to build railroads and skyscrapers:

• the telegraph

• the Bessemer Process

• the Model T

• The light bulb

An organization of workers dedicated to protecting members' interests and improving wages, hours and working conditions for all.

• Labor Union

• Workers Rights

• Worker Strikes

• Collective Bargaining

_______ is when workers refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet their demands.

• labor unions
• party
• strike
• sweatshop

Vertical Intigration

• Buy all the companies that make the parts you need.

• Buy all the companies that make and sell what you do.

Match the tycoon with the industry

• Car assembly line

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Banks

• Henry Ford

• Railroad

• JP Morgan

• Standard Oil

• John D Rockefeller

Match the following events that led to Organized Labor

• McCormick Harvesting Machine company strike led to dynamite being thrown in the crowd.

• Homestead Strike

• Fire broke out in sweatshop, doors were locked and 146 people died

• Haymarket Riot

• Carnegie's Steel Factory in PA, angry workers took control of the plant. 16 people died

• Triangle Shirt Waist Factory

In the late 19th century, inventions such as the mechanized reaper and the steel plow made farming more efficient. What impact did the introduction of farm machinery have on American farms in the 19th century?

• More workers were needed to run the new machines.

• Large farms increased their output and supplied food to eastern cities.

• Wages for unskilled farm workers increased.

• The high cost of the machines made farming unprofitable.

In the late 19th century, how did the growth of industry affect American society?

• The percentage of Americans living in urban areas increased.

• Population centers shifted from the Northeast to the South.

• Restrictions on immigration created a more homogeneous culture.

• The United States experienced the disappearance of the traditional family farm.

Which thesis (big idea) statement is supported by the graph above?

• In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the population distribution shifted as the urban population began to increase more dramatically than the rural population.

• Most immigrants to the United States in the late 19th century settled in rural areas.

• By the early 20th century, the population of cities grew while the population in rural areas declined.

• The population center of the United States moved westward in the late 19th and early 20th

  centuries.