Industrial Revolution

American History – Henrichsen

Machinery Engines

Steam Water Gasoline

Factories Clothing Goods

Assembly Line Uneducated labor Many jobs available Mass production

Inventions Refrigerated rail cars Typewriter Kodak camera Elevator Cable and Electric

streetcar Fountain Pen Gillette Razor Cash Register Vacuum Cleaner

Which of these inventions has most affected our lives today?

What do you think you could invent that would affect future society?

Child LaborThe new source of laborSmall and easy to fit inside the

machineryDestroyed the bodyLong hours

Labor Unions Workers got together to encourage safety,

better pay, as well as continued jobs when the government and society were pro-business

Laws were created to specifically ban unions as they were seen as anti-business and possibly communist

Anti-immigrant ideas used to support many of the anti-union laws

Women Workers Right to vote

still not there Workers in factories

Pay is always less then men Preferred for some jobs as they were smaller and

easier to fit in the small spaces Definite ties to the garment industry

Education Social Influence

PoliticsPolitical Machines – Boss TweedCorruptionClose ties to business

Not seen as a problemThomas Nast

Immigration Not a unified group as many seem today. Many divisions and hatred especially to those

who were from either the poorer and/or Catholic areas of Europe

There were specific rules against immigration from Asia based on racism and cultural differences

A move to send Black Americans back to Africa was led by Marcus Garvey and eventually started the country of Liberia

Monopolies Vertical

Control every aspect of a single product from production to the final sales and distribution

US Oil US Steel

Horizontal Control a single level of a product ie all

distribution, sales or production Microsoft

Social DarwinismMisapplication of Darwin’s theories on

evolution to areas of society such as money and inherited wealth and land

Usually referred specifically to those of a different ethnic and/or religious background

Social GospelReaction to Social DarwinismProvides good works to the people of

the US based on religion Includes ideas such as settlement

houses, aid to single mothers, immigrants

Jane Addams – Hull House