Did Industrialization benefit the people of the United States?

Do Now: What are some technologies you use today?

Industrialization in America

• Machines are doing the work people use to do by hand

• America changes from a farming nation to a nation full of factories and businesses

Why does industry grow?

• Natural resources– Coal, iron, lead, copper– Factories use these resources to run machines and

make goods

Transportation• Allowed cities and nation

to grow• 1830’s railroads developed

quickly• Moves people, goods, and

resources • Transcontinental railroad

– 1869– New railroad opens– Runs from one side of the

U.S. to another– Goods can now be sold in

more places and for more money

Automobile

• 1900• Henry Ford• 8,000 Americans

owned in 1900• Assembly line-

mass production• 4.5 million in 1917

Airplane

• 1903• Wilbur and Orville

Wright tested gas-powered airplane in North Carolina

Eerie Canal• First transportation

system in NY• runs about 363 miles

from Albany, New York, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York, at Lake Erie, completing a navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes

Inventions

• New products or machines• New machines makes products faster than

people

Thomas Edison

• “The Wizard of Menlo Park”• Invented the light bulb (1879),

phonograph, motion picture camera, and other devices

• Opened first electrical power plant

• Lit up homes, factories, powered city streetcars

Alexander Graham Bell

• Invented the telegraph (telephone 1876)– Used codes, dots, dashes

• Instant communication over miles

Other Devices

• Typewriter (1868)- Christopher Sholes– Type instead of

writing (faster)– 60 words per minute

in offices

• Camera (1888)- George Eastman– Lightweight camera– Kodak

Immigration

• Immigrants are coming to the U.S.

• Take jobs for low pay

• Factories can sell more goods for less money

Urbanization

• Rapid growth of city populations• Cities attracted industry• People migrated to cities for jobs• New York, San Francisco, Chicago