Iron Horse & Industrialization
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What would happen if there were no airplanes today?
Learning Objectives
Introduce Industrialization Poster Project
Learn about the pros and cons of the train industry in the 19th century
Learning Agenda
Introduce Poster Presentation
Iron Horse Lecture & Cornell Notes
The Iron Horse
Technology
First steam locomotive—1830
Bessemer process 1865-1900: 30,000 to
200,000 miles of track 1869 transcontinental
railroad 4d/25mph &
10d/50mph World industrial power
in 1900
Corporations and TrustsWhat is a corporation? A group of people who are granted a charter that allows them to start a business that is given the same legal rights as an individualWhat is a trust? A combinations of corporations that form a monopoly to eliminate competition
Pros Employment and
Innovation Philanthropy
Cons Corruption Disparity of wealth
Immigration
Pros Land of opportunity Employment
Cons Working Conditions
2,000 employees killed in one year (1882)
Class Conflict Wages, Labor
Unions, Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
West/ U.S. Environment
Pros Trade between east
and west Homestead Act (1862)
160 acres of free land for 5 yrs of cultivation
Cons Native Americans
Sand Creek Massacre (1864)
Environment
Manifest Destiny
Politics
Pros Regulation of
Commerce 1887 Interstate
Commerce Act Trust busting
Interstate Commerce Commission
Cons Corruption Tariffs Local: Voting for jobs
Homework
Read 246-256 in Americans; answer #2 p.249