BELLWORK

• How did the Industrial Revolution effect urban centers?

• Where did the Industrial Revolution start? Where did it spread?

• What was the cotton gin?

• THINKER: Why do YOU think the Industrial Revolution is important?

Flying Shuttle

Power Loom

Cotton Gin

Steam Engine

Railroad

Assembly Line

Telephone

Light Bulb

UNIT 5 TEST!

• Total = 80 pts

• Scantron/Multiple Choice = 50 pts

• Matching/Short Answer = 30 points

French Revolution

• Tax on tea – England forced the colonists to pay a tax on tea, so they revolted in protest

• Puritans were being prosecuted for their religious beliefs

• The Reign of Terror killed thousands of French Citizens

• The Estate System.

CAUSES Why are these incorrect?

Railroads

• Transcontinental Railroad: a railway extending from coast to coast.

• Government thought it would strengthen economic infrastructure so it gave huge loans and grants to railway companies.

• Employed thousands of immigrant workers.

Railroads• The use of trains made way for steel and

metal.

• In 1883, the railroads adopted a national system of time zones.

• Railroads revolutionized business and industry in the U.S. by: creating a faster and more practical means of transporting goods, lowered cost of production, created national markets, and stimulation of other industries (steel/iron).

Inventions of the 1800s• Battery• Tin can• Photograph/camera• Soda fountain• Stethoscope• Cement• Matches• Typewriter• Sewing machine• Revolver/Machine gun• Morse Code• Bicycle

• Stapler• Safety pin• Dishwasher• Washing machine• Elevator• Plastic• Dynamite• Vacuum • Barbed wire• Telephone• Toilet paper• Contact lenses

New Forms of Energy

• In 1858, Edwin Drake struck oil in PA and created a boom in industry.

• Thomas Edison experimented with electricity and created the light bulb.

• General Electric was created in 1890 and encouraged the spread of the use of electricity.

Everyday Americans Living Conditions

• poor lived in crowded apartment buildings called tenements

• overwork, poor sanitation, and inadequate diet left slum dwellers vulnerable to disease

• many poor children received no education

• cities were full of prostitution, pornography, and hard alcohol

Everyday Americans

Laborers• Worked in

factories, mills, and mines

• worked at least 60 hours a week for an average pay of about 20 cents an hour, and had no benefits

Everyday Americans

Laborers• earnings

increased up to 60% from 1870-1900

Everyday Americans

With working conditions so bad, why do you think people still came,

by the millions, to America?