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America's Industrial Revolution: Railroad, Economy, and Immigration

Explore the pivotal moments of America's industrial revolution, from the rise of the railroad industry to the influx of immigrants and technological innovations. Learn about key figures like Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, and the impact of labor movements. Gain insights into the economic transformations and societal changes that shaped the modern United States.

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America's Industrial Revolution: Railroad, Economy, and Immigration

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  1. Review Chapter 19 & 20 217 Points Will Be on your Final Quarter Grades Study!!

  2. 1. Relationship between Railroad and Economy- • RR built- Economy goes up

  3. 2. Consolidation- • Combining separate companies in an industry

  4. 3. Inventor of Telephone- • Alexander G. Bell

  5. 4.Consolidation of RR who benefits? • Railroad Barons

  6. 5.Result of homestead strike- • Steelworkers Union Dwindled after its failure

  7. 6.Who stopped the Pullman Strike- • Attorney General Richard Olney

  8. 7.AFL- • 1886 group of national trade unions formed this

  9. 8.Mergers- • Combining of Companies

  10. 9.Andrew Carnegie- • Steel owner- Philanthropist

  11. 10.Jan E. Matzeliger- • Invented Shoe making machine

  12. 11.Inventor of Lightbulb- • Thomas Edison

  13. 12.Cyrus Field- • Linked US & Europe with Transatlantic Telegraph line

  14. 13.George Pullman- • Invented RR sleeping car

  15. 14.Thomas Edison- • electric power plant lit up 85 buildings

  16. 15.George Westinghouse- • Invented transformers

  17. 16.Haymarket Riot- • Bloody Clash in Chicago

  18. 17.Child Labor Laws- • Didn’t apply in Agriculture

  19. 18.Edwin L. Drake- • Well led to creating of multimillion dollar oil industry

  20. 19.Henry Ford- • assembly line pioneer

  21. 20.Quote Charles Sorenson- pg575- • Describing Model T

  22. 21.Quote First words spoke on Telephone pg. 565- • accidentally spoken words

  23. 22.Quote pg. 572- • Haymarket Riot quote

  24. Matching 1.George Eastman- • Invented a small Camera

  25. 2.Cornelius Vanderbilt- • Railroad Baron

  26. 3.Mary Harris Jones- • Labor union Leader

  27. 4.Henry Ford- • Built Model T

  28. 5.Alexander Graham Bell- • Invented the Telephone

  29. 9.John D. Rockefeller- • Formed the Standard Oil Company OH

  30. Chapter 20 on Back- 1.Angel Island- • Asian Immigrants

  31. 2. Morrill Act- Funds for land-grant colleges • Funds for land-grant colleges

  32. 3Thomas Edison- • invention- moving pictures

  33. 4Why emigrate? • economic troubles

  34. 5Law limited Immigration year- • Chinese Exclusion Act 1882

  35. 6spectator sports- • Rooting for home team became a pastime

  36. 7tenements- • apartment slums where immigrants lived

  37. 8Pacific ocean journey length- • several weeks

  38. 9Early magazines still published today- • Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal

  39. 10Polish immigrant quote-pg.591- • tenement

  40. 11Bridge opened in NYC 1883- • Brooklyn

  41. 12Edith Wharton- • joys and sorrows of upper-class easterners

  42. 13Type of work done by W.Homer- • Stormy Sea Scenes

  43. 14 Early movie theatres- • Nickelodeons

  44. 15Jacob Riis- • Wrote about Gangs of New York

  45. Matching 1Suburbs- • Site of middle-class housing

  46. 2Jane Addams- • Hull House founder

  47. 3Settlement Houses- • Provided Medical Care

  48. 4.Bryn Mawr • College that admitted women

  49. 5Booker T. Washington- • Tuskegee Institute founder

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