Did Industry Improve Society?

Many factors promoted industrialization, including cheap labor, new inventions and technology, and plentiful raw materials. Railroads rapidly expanded, while government policies encouraged economic growth.

• What changes in lifestyle do you think occurred because of industrialization?

• How do you think industrialization changed American politics?

The Rise of Industry

What economic policies allowed industries to expand after the Civil War?

The Railroads

How did the railroads encourage the settlement of the Plains and the West?Big Business

Why did captains of industry such as Andrew Carnegie expand their businesses through new ways of organization?

Unions

Why did workers form unions?

Big IdeasGovernment and Society The United States

government adopted a policy of laissez-faire economics, allowing business to expand.

The United States Industrializes

Natural resources and a large labor force allowed the United States to industrialize rapidly.

Lets Start a BusinessPick a Business

What resources do you need

How to you make it

Make a flow chart of how you use the resources

New Inventions

During the late 1800s, inventions such as the telephone and the lightbulb spurred economic development.

Telephone past and present

Pull up the worksheet from Mr. Phillips’ world

Europeans Flood Into America

Immigrants from Europe came to the United States for many reasons and entered the country through Ellis Island.

Minnesota ImigrationSwede Hollow Power Point

Immigration Power Point

Free Enterprise

Laissez-faire economics promoted industrialization, but tariffs protected American companies from competition.

Laissez-Faire: Hands off

Entrepreneurs: Take Risk

Tariffs: taxes on ImportsMorrill Tariff- passed after civil war by Republican

congress. Greatly increased tariff rates

Do you think Government policies helped or hindered industrialization and why

Big IdeasScience and Technology The growth of railroads

encouraged development of the Plains and Western regions.

Linking the Nation

After the Civil War, the rapid construction of railroads accelerated the nation’s industrialization and linked the country together.

Transcontinental Railway

Pacific Railway Act:1862

-Union Pacific-Central Pacific

“everything- rails, ties, building supplies, fuel for locomotives and trains, supplies for the men and animals on the entire work – had to be transported from the Missouri River”

Robber Barons

The government helped finance railroad construction by providing land grants, but this system also led to corruption.

Time Zone Writing activity

Robber Barron v. Captains of Industry

Cornelius Vanderbilt, (The Men Who Built America)

Credit Mobilier Scandal: 1872 Investors owned both The Union Pacific and Credit

Mobilier. Signed contracts with themselves. Gouged the Union Pacific and added miles to trackSame investors controlled both…agreed to payWhen land grants were over, sold shares to

congress way below costA letter to a newspaper listing all members of

congress who accepted shares--Rise of the term Robber Barrons

Big IdeasEconomics and Society Business people such as

Andrew Carnegie developed new ways to expand business.

The Rise of Big Business

Corporations could produce goods more efficiently, which allowed the rise of big business.

Steel Production Writing activity

Document on Mr. Phillips World

Consolidating Industry

Business leaders devised new and larger forms of business organizations and new ways to promote their products.

Remember your BusinessExpand your business

What do you need ( Assume you have the capitol)Low costsHigher productionProfitPresent your ideas(Chapter 5 section 3)

Big Ideas

Struggles for Rights Unions grew and labor unrest intensified as workers fought for more rights.

Working in the United States

Low wages, long hours, and difficult working conditions caused resentment among workers and led to efforts to organize unions.

Struggling to Organize

Workers began to form unions to fight for better wages and working conditions but had few successes.

New Unions Emerge

The AFL fought for skilled workers; new unions tried to organize unskilled workers.

Business v. Worker ProjectDetails to follow

Causes of Industrialization

• Abundant natural resources

• Cheap immigrant labor force

• High tariffs reduce the import of foreign goods

• National transportation and communication networks

Causes of the Growth of Big Business

• Little or no government intervention

• Development of pools, trusts, holding companies, monopolies

• Small businesses could not compete with economies of scale of larger businesses

• Practices of some big businesses sometimes limited competition

Effects on the Workplace

• Rural migration and immigration created large, concentrated workforce

• Low wages, long hours, and dangerous working conditions were common in large-scale industries

• First large unions formed but had little bargaining power against larger companies