Industrialization

1. Industrialization Chapter 14 1865-1901

2. The rise of the United States as an industrial power began after the Civil War. • Many factors promoted industry, including cheap labor, new inventions and technology, and plentiful raw materials. • Government policies encouraged growth and large corporations became an important part of the economy. • As industry expanded workers tried to form unions to fight for better wages and working conditions.

3. United States Industrializes • The Industrial Revolution began in the United States in the early 1800s. • With the end of the Civil War, American industry expanded and millions of people left their farms to work in mines and factories. • By the early 1900s, the United States had become the world’s leading industrial nation.

4. By 1914 the nation’sgross national product (GNP) was eight times greater than it had been when the Civil War ended. What is the gross national product? • The total value of all goods and services produced by a country. • The Gross National Product (GNP) is the total dollar value of all final goods and services produced for consumption in society during a particular time period. • Its rise or fall measures economic activity based on the labor and production output within a country.

6. What was one of the reasons for the nation’s industrial success? • An abundance of raw materials. • What were the natural resources found in the United States that led to the country’s industrial success? • Water, timber, coal, iron and copper • At the same time what new resource began to be exploited what was this resource? • Petroleum

7. Why was petroleum in high demand? • It could be turned into kerosene. What was kerosene used for? • Used in lanterns and stoves • In 1859 who drilled the first oil well near Titusville, Pennsylvania? • Edwin Drake • By 1900 oil fields from Pennsylvania to Texas had been opened. • As oil production rose it fueled economic expansion.

8. Between 1860 to 1910 the population of the United States tripled. • What were the two causes did the population growth stem from? • Large families and flood of immigration. • American industry began to grow at a time when the social and economic conditions in China and Europe convinced many to leave in search for a better life.

9. What was another important factor that enabled the United States to industrialize so rapidly? • Free enterprise • In the 1800s many Americans embraced the idea of what which meant “let the people do as they choose?” • Laissez-faire • What did the supporters of laissez-faire believe? • Government should not interfere with the economy other than to protect private property rights and maintain peace.

10. Laissez-faire relies on supply and demand rather then the government to regulate prices and wages. • Supporters claim that a free market with competing companies leads to greater efficiency and creates wealth for everyone. • Supports low taxes to ensure that private individuals will make most of the decisions about how the nation’s wealth is spent. • They also believed that the government’s debt should be kept limited since money the government borrows from banks is not available to be loaned to individuals for their use.

11. In the United States profit motive attracted people of high ability and ambition into business. • There were those willing to take a risk with their capital to organize and run a business what was this group of people called? • Entrepreneurs • In the late 1800s entrepreneurs were attracted tomanufacturingandtransportationfields. • As a result hundreds of factors and thousands of miles of railroads were built.

12. Why was Europe an important source of capital? • Foreign investors saw more opportunities for growth and profit in the U.S. than at home. • In the late 1800s state and federal government had a laissez-faire attitude by keeping taxes and spending low and by not imposing regulations on industry. • The government did not control wages or prices. • It adopted policies to help industry.

13. Since the early 1800s the northeastern states and southern states debated on economic polices. • Northerners wanted high tariffs to protect their industries from foreign competition. • Southerners opposed tariffs to keep the cost of imported goods down. • The high tariffs contradicted laissez-faire policies and harmed many Americans.

14. As the United States raised tariffs on foreign products, other countries responded by raising tariffs against American products. • American companies who sold goods overseas, especially farmers were hurt by these high tariffs. • Many business leaders and members of Congress felt tariffs were necessary to protect American industry against the already established European factories. • By the early 1900s, American industries were larger and highly competitive.

15. What were some problems caused by high tariffs? • When other countries placed high tariffs against American goods it hurt American companies selling products overseas. • Rural American farmers were especially hard hit by the tariffs causing many of them to leave farms and take factor jobs.

16. New Inventions • New inventions increased America’s productivity which in turn produced wealth and job opportunities. • What areas would these new inventions improve?Transportation, communications which was vital to the nations industrial growth. • Led to the founding of new corporations which produced new wealth and new jobs.

17. The clothing industry increased productivity in the mid-1800s with the introduction of the Northrop automatic loom, the power driven sewing machine and cloth cutter. • Mass production in the shoe industry allowed large factories to produce shoes more cheaply and efficiently than local cobblers. The savings then resulted in lower prices.

18. Technology improved connections among people. • In 1866 Cyrus Field laid a telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean providing instant contact between the United States and Europe.

19. Guglielmo Marconi • Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor, proved the feasibility of radio communication. • He sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895. • By 1899 he flashed the first wireless signal across the English Channel. • In 1902 he sent the first telegraph from England to Newfoundland. This was the first successful transatlantic radiotelegraph message. • Theradiobecame common in American homes in the 1920s.

20. Elisha Otis (1852) Elisha Otis,a descendant of revolutionary patriot James Otis (1725-1783), was born near Halifax, Vermont. He left his family's successful farm at the age of nineteen to pursue a number of trades, including carpentry in Troy, New York, and grist milling, followed by carriage manufacturing and sawmilling in Vermont. In 1845 Otis moved his family to Albany, New York, where he worked as a master mechanic at a bedstead factory and invented an automatic lathe.

21. In 1851 Otis went to Bergen, New Jersey, and then to Yonkers, New York the following year to supervise the construction of a new bedstead factory for his employer. While in Yonkers, Otis designed a "safety hoist" to lift loads at the factory; his crucial innovation was a safety catch that kept the car from falling if the lifting cable or rope broke.

22. Otis set up a small elevator shop in Yonkers in 1853, selling only a few for hoisting freight. To increase sales, Otis dramatically demonstrated his elevator during an exhibition at the Crystal Palace in New York City in 1854, riding in the cab high above onlookers and then having the cable cut. This did attract attention, and in 1857 Otis installed the first passenger safety elevator in a New York department store, and later his passenger elevator made the skyscraper feasible. Just before his death, Otis patented a steam-driven elevator, which was the basis for what became the Otis Elevator Company, run by Otis's two sons, Charles and Norton. Among other devices Otis patented were railroad car brakes (1852), a steam plow (1857), and a bake oven (1858).

23. George Mortimer Pullman 1831–97, American industrialist and developer of the railroad sleeping car. As a young man he became a cabinetmaker, and after he moved (1858) to Chicago he began converting (1859) old railroad coaches in order to facilitate long-distance traveling. Some five years later he built, the first modern sleeping car. Gaining great wealth from his invention, he founded (1867) the Pullman Palace Car Company. The town of Pullman, now part of Chicago, was built (1880) for the company and its workers. One of the most famous of all U.S. strikes was that at Pullman in 1894.

24. Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt Lowe (August 20, 1832 - January 16, 1913), also known as Professor T. S. C. Lowe, was an Civil War aeronaut, scientist and inventor. Lowe became a pioneer in the field of aeronautics, with the goal of building a trans Atlantic airship. After the war, he experimented with the cooling properties of compressed gases and developed a Carbon Dioxide cooled commercial ice-making machine, for which he was granted British Patent No. 952. His commercially produced ice was first sold in Dallas, TX in 1866.

25. Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell, American inventor and teacher of the deaf, most famous for his invention of the telephone. Since the age of 18, Bell had been working on the idea of transmitting speech. In 1874, while working on a multiple telegraph, he developed the basic ideas for the telephone. His experiments with his assistant Thomas Watson finally proved successful on March 10, 1876, when the first complete sentence was transmitted: "Watson, come here; I want you.".

26. In 1874, New York City installs an electric streetcar system designed by Stephen Dudley Field. The system is dangerous and ineffective, but it is a sign of major changes to come in urban transportation.

27. Thomas Alva Edison Thomas Alva Edison was the most prolific inventor in American history. He amassed a record 1,093 patents covering key innovations and minor improvements in wide range of fields, including telecommunications, light bulb electric power, sound recording, motion pictures, primary and storage batteries, and mining and cement technology.

28. James Ritty In 1871, Ritty became a saloon owner in Dayton. Unfortunately for Ritty, some of his employees stole money from the business. In 1878, while on a ship bound for Europe, Ritty saw a machine that counted the number of times that the ship's propeller completed a revolution. Using the same sort of technology, Ritty became convinced that he could invent a machine that could keep track of his sales. He returned to the United States, and with the assistance of his brother, a mechanic, he invented the first cash register.

29. He patented his invention on November 4, 1879, and called it "Ritty's Incorruptible Cashier." Ritty's machine did not have a cash drawer. Instead, it simply recorded the number of sales and also the amount of each one. This machine allowed Ritty to keep accurate track of the number of sales and the amount of each sale that was made.

30. Jan E. Matzeliger Inventor of the shoe-lacing machine, Jan Matzeliger not only revolutionized the shoe industry but made Lynn, Massachusetts, the "shoe capital of the world." Born in South America, Matzeliger at eighteen came to the United States to work in a shoe factory where he conceived of a machine that would do the work of more than a dozen workers. The Industrial Revolution had produced machines to cut, sew, and tack shoes, but none had been perfected to automatically stitch the leather of the shoe to the sole. Matzeliger's patented shoe-lasting device drastically reduced shoe prices, increased wages, and improved working conditions for millions who worked in the shoe industry.

31. Granville T. Woods was known as the "Black Edison”- invented more than a dozen devices to improve electric railway cars and many more for controlling the flow of electricity.

32. Charles and Frank Duryea America's first gasoline powered commercial car manufacturers were two brothers, Charles Duryea (1861-1938) and Frank Duryea.The brothers were bicycle makers who became interested in gasoline engines and automobiles. On September 20 1893, their first automobile was constructed and successfully tested on the public streets of Springfield, Massachusetts. Charles Duryea founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company in 1896, the first company to manufacture and sell gasoline powered vehicles. By 1896, the company had sold thirteen cars of the model Duryea, an expensive limousine, which remained in production into the 1920s.

34. Other Inventions Air Brake- George Westinghouse Electric Voting Machine- Thomas Edison Cable Street Car- Andrew S. Hallide Carpet Sweeper- Melville Bissell Electric Iron- Henry W. Seely Fountain Pen- Lewis E. Waterman Electric Welding Machine- Elihu Thomas Safety Razor with throwaway blades-King C. Gillette Motor driven vacuum cleaner- John Thurman

35. 2 Linking the Nation • After the Civil War, railroad construction dramatically expanded. • In 1862 President Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act which provided for the construction of a transcontinental railroad by the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroad companies. • To encourage rapid construction the government offered each company land along its right of way.

36. In 1865 the Union Pacific under the engineer Greenville Dodgepushed westward from Omaha, Nebraska. The laborers faced blizzards in the mountains, scorching heat in the desert and Native Americans. • What sort of people did the work on the railroad? • Civil War veterans, new immigrants from Ireland, farmers, miners, cooks, and ex-convicts.

37. Four merchants known as the “Big Four” invested in the Central Pacific Railroad. • They each bought stock in the railroad and eventually made a fortune. • One of them Leland Stanford became the governor of California founded Stanford University and later became a United States Senator.

38. “Big Four” • Theodore Dehone Judah sold railroad stock to his declining Central Railroad Company to four merchants • Charley Crocker- Shop Owner • Mark Hopkins- Hardware Store Owner • Collis P. Huntington- Hardware Store Owner • Leland Stanford- Grocery Store Owner

39. Because of the labor shortage the Central Pacific hired about 10,000 _____ workers. Chinese

40. Railroads Spur Growth • Railroads encouraged the growth of American Industry. • Thetranscontinental railroad was the first of many lines to crisscross the nation after the Civil War. • In the early 1800s most railways served only local needs, resulting in many unconnected rail lines.

41. One of the most famous and successful railroad consolidators was Cornelius Vanderbilt, a former steamboat captain who built the largest steamboat fleet in America. • By 1869 Vanderbilt had purchased and merged three short New York railroads to form the New York Central. • He was the first to offer direct rail service from New York to Chicago.

42. In 1883 rail service became safer and more reliable when the American Railway Association divided the country into four times zones or regions, where the same time was kept. • Large integrated railroad systems provided increased efficiency a decrease in time spent in long distance travel and it united Americans from different regions.

43. Land Grant System • Building and operating railroads lines especially across the vast unsettled regions of the West often required more money that most private investors could raise on their own. • To encourage railroad construction what did the federal government do? • Gave railroads land grants- land given to railroads by federal government to sell to settlers, real estate companies and other businesses to raise money they needed to built railroads.

44. Robber Barons • The wealth of railroad entrepreneurs led to accusations that they had acquired their wealth through illegal means. • One of the entrepreneurs with the worst reputation was Jay Gould who used information he obtained as a railroad owner to manipulate stock prices to his benefit.

45. Railroad investors realized they could make more money through land grants than by running a railroad so many investors bribed members of Congress to vote for more land grants. • In 1872 corruption in the railroad system became public with the Credit Mobilier scandal. • Several stockholders of the Union Pacific set up the Credit Mobilier a construction company.

46. Not all of the entrepreneurs were corrupt. • James J. Hill built the Great Northern Railroad without any federal land grants or subsidies. • It became the most successful transcontinental railroad and the only one not to go bankrupt.

47. 3 Big Business • After the Civil War, big business assumed a more prominent role in American life. • By the 1900 big business dominated the economy of the United States. • Big business would not have been possible without the corporation.

48. What is a corporation? • A corporation is an organization owned by many people but treated by law as though a single person. • A corporation can own property, pay taxes make contracts and sue and be sued. • The people who own corporations are called what? • Stockholders

49. The people who own the corporation own shares of the ownership called what? • Stocks • Issuing stock allows a corporation to raise large sums of money but spreads out the financial risk. • From the sale of stock, corporations could invest in new technologies to increase their efficiency.

50. All businesses have two kinds of cost what are they? • Fixed costs- are the costs a company has to pay whether it is operating or not. • Examples of fixed cost- loans, mortgages, and taxes.