Transcript Industrial Revolution in America

Industrial Revolution in
America
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The Industrial Revolution in
America.
• Describes the general growth of large
production and urbanization that took
place in the US between the Civil War and
WWI.
• America started as a mostly farming
economy and society, and transitioned to
a production and sales nation.
– We are going to look at some of the reasons
and results of this.
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
in USA
• Steel farm equipment.
– Less farm workers
– Greater demand for steel.
• Steam engine.
• Growth of railroads made transportation easy and cheep.
• Immigration increased.
– Contributed to extra labor
– Extra workers then move to big cities looking for jobs
– Provide labor for factories.
• New tactics such as division of labor and mass
production made producing more profitable.
– Craft vs labor
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Urbanization
• Thousands of citizens and immigrants moved to the
cities for work.
• This causes more companies to center their operations
in large cities.
– Because of poor transportation, workers must live close to their
jobs sites- causes crowding.
• Because of the birth of steel, taller buildings and other
infrastructure could now be constructed-skyscrapers.
• Cities then began to grow up instead of out.
• Most people lived in crowed apartment like buildings
called tenements.
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Exports
• With factories and production becoming so
profitable, the US begins to produce a
surplus.
• The surplus can then be sold on the global
market for a profit.
– Capitalism
• With exports, come money, influence, and
power.
US Steel Production
USA GDP
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total market value of goods and services
produced by all citizens and capital during a
given period
Positives
• More jobs
– Production
– Construction
• International trade
• Increase availability of
products
• More inexpensive
products
Negative
• Terrible working
conditions
• Long Hours
• No workers rights
• Child Labor
– Education
– Less pay
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Pollution
Crowded filthy cities
Expendable workers
Monopolies
Tenement House Living
Labor Movement
• Most of the educated business owners held all of the power in the
work place looked down on their labor employees.
– This caused owners to treat workers little better than paid slaves.-Long
turn.
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– Anyone could learn the work, so any workers who brought up reform
would be fired and replaced.
• The American labor movement centered around an end to long
hours, unsafe conditions, low pay and other abuses.
• While workers were often uneducated, they had one powerful
weapon, the strike, which took money directly out of the owners
pockets.
• Strikers and especially strike organizers were dealt with harshly at
first, but would come to be recognized by the government.
– It would take most workers until WWI to win the modern 8 hour work
day.
Early Strikes
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Discussion Questions
• What is the connection between
industrialization and world power status?
• What is the role of labor unions in the
United States?
• To what extent is modern America a
product of this time period?