Industry and Urban Growth

A New Industrial Revolution

Key Terms

Assembly Line –

Patent -

Method of production in which workers add parts to a product as it moves past them on a belt.

An inventor must obtain a document giving him or her the sole right to make and sell an invention

• Who was the inventor of the telephone?

• Who was the “Wizard of Menlo Park”?

• Who made it possible through mass production for more people to own cars?

Alexander Graham Bell

Thomas Edison

Henry Ford

Big Business and Organized Labor

• Key Terms

entrepreneur –

corporation -

monopoly -

A person who sets up a new business to make a profit

Business owned by investors

Company that controls most or all business in an industry

• Knights of Labor

• AFL -

Terence Powderly was elected president

Included all workers – African-American, women, immigrants, and unskilled workers

American Federation of Labor

Founded by Samuel Gompers

Skilled workers only

Used Collective Bargaining as a way to gain improvements

- unions negotiate with management for workers as a group.

Cities Grow and Change

• Key Termsurbanization – settlement house –

Jane Adams -

Rapid growth of city populations

Is a center offering help to urban poor

Opened settlement house in Chicago called Hull House

The New Immigrants

• Reasons for migration • “Land of Opportunity”• Jobs• Religious freedom• Freedom - wanting traditions of liberty and democracy

• Becoming American• Assimilate – the process of becoming a part of another

culture