INDUSTRIALIZATION

A NEW INDUSTRIAL AGE

SECTION 1 ID’S 3 MAJOR FACTORS OF THE INDUSTRIAL

BOOM EDWIN L. DRAKE BESSEMER PROCESS USES FOR STEEL INVENTORS (EDISON, SHOLES, BELL) INVENTIONS AFFECT WOMEN. HOW?? CONSUMER? OVERALL, INDUSTRIALIZATION GOOD/BAD?

WHY??

SECTION 1 3 MAJOR FACTORS OF THE

INDUSTRIAL BOOMWEALTH OF NATURAL RESOURCES

EXPLOSION OF INVENTIONSGROWING URBAN POPULATION PROVIDED MARKET FOR NEW PRODUCTS

RESOURCES U.S. changed from a nation of farmers to

a modern, industrial nation Natural resources played a key role in the

transformation. Coal, iron ore, lead, and copper were used for building railroads, bridges, skyscrapers, and machinery.

Human population also helped industry grow.

1860 – 1890 population more than doubled

Provided labor supply

Essentional Question

What geographical theme played a role in

America’s industrial growth?

answer Place = land with Natural

Resources Human/Environment =

America’s ability to take the resources from the land and use them.

Edwin L. Drake Successfully used a steam

engine to drill for Oil This breakthrough started an oil

boom that spread from Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana.

A rush to transform oil into Kerosene. Gasoline use was found later.

Bessemer Process Developers: Henry

Bessemer/William Kelly Technique: Injected air into molten

iron to remove the carbon and transform it into steel.

By 1880, 90% of the nation’s steel used this method

Rapid innovation, by 1886 replaced by the open-hearth process (allowed quality steel from scrap metal and raw material)

USES FOR STEEL Railroads Barbed wire (Joseph Glidden) Steel changed the face of the

Country Made innovative construction

possibleBrooklyn BridgeSkyscraper

Inventors Thomas Edison = 1879

developed the electric light bulb, cheap method of supplying light.The bulb lit up cities 24 hr industrial production

Inventors

Christopher Sholes 1867 invented the Typewriter Helped improved business communication

Alexander Graham Bell Telephone, 1876 Further helped communication Coast to coast service 1915

Question Inventions affect women. How? Affect on Factory work. How? Affect on consumer? Overall, industrialization good or bad?

Why?

Answers Women =

New jobs for women: 1870 5% to 1910 40% Most were single, white, native-born, age 15-24

Factory work = Machines replaced backbreaking labor, yet

workers are now easily replaced Work completed in factors, no longer at home Sewing machine

Consumer = New force in American Business, trading cards,

prizes with products, etc.

GOOD OR BAD? IMPROVED STANDARD OF LIVING NEW GOODS: PHONOGRAPHS, BICYCLES,

CAMERAS NEW OPPORTUNITES FOR RECREATION SOCIETY WAS CHANGED FOREVER