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Industrialization: Revolutionizing America with Inventions and Railroads

Discover how industrialization transformed America with inventions like the light bulb and telephone, and the impact of railroads on the economy. Learn about key figures like Carnegie and Rockefeller and the challenges faced by industrial laborers.

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Industrialization: Revolutionizing America with Inventions and Railroads

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  1. Industrialization

  2. Industrialization • Caused by natural resources • Black Gold- Oil • Bessemer process- removes impurities in steel

  3. Inventions • Thomas Edison • Created the incandescent light bulb and the direst current- travels short distances • George Westinghouse • Created an alternating current- travel long distances

  4. Inventions • Charles Hires- pharmacist, root beer • Samuel Morse- Invented the telegraph and Western Union

  5. Inventions • Alexander Graham Bell- Invented the telephone • John & Washington Roebling- Built the Brooklyn Bridge- a suspension bridge

  6. Why Industrialization? • Natural resources • Population • Free Enterprise- Laissez faire

  7. Railroads • Leland Stanford- "Last Spike" in Promontory, Utah on May 10, 1869, uniting the transcontinental railroad. • Cornelius Vanderbilt- made wealth in railroads

  8. Railroads • Land Grants • Gov. offered transcontinental RR companies land along its right-of-way to encourage rapid construction of tracks

  9. Railroads • Robber Barons- RR tycoons that built fortunes by swindling people and stocks • Jay Gould- most famous robber baron

  10. Industry Consolidation • Andrew Carnegie- U.S. Steel • Gospel of Wealth • Vertical Integration • Horizontal Integration

  11. Industry Consolidation • John D. Rockefeller- Standard Oil • Used a trust to gain control of the oil industry in America

  12. Industrial Labor • Piecework- pay based upon production • Fined or fired for no reason • Child Labor- no rights, harsh conditions, long hours

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