The Rise of Industrialism

Section 4.2

Today’s AgendaDay 5

• Begin 4.2 Slide Show

• Homework

• Read Chapter 4 (121-126)

• Day 7 is Monday. Presenters be ready!!

Remembering 9/11

• Agrarian• Rural• Travel is slow and

difficult• Very few consumer

goods• Products made by

skilled craftsmen for local community

What was America like before the Industrial Revolution?

How did the US change economically after the Civil War?

• It Industrialized

• Changed from nation of farms to a nation of factories, mines, and railroads

• Mass production made skilled craftsmen obsolete

America Industrializes

New York, 1865

Who was Louis Sullivan?

• Father of the Skyscraper

• American architect• overcame limits of

thick load-bearing walls by using a steel frame

• “form follows function" – emphasized the

importance of a buildings usefulness over its aesthetic beauty

Describe the technology boom?

• Patents skyrocketed

• Telephone- Alexander Graham Bell 1876)

• Faster textile machinery

• typewriter

• electric motor

• iron and steel ships

• camera

What impact did the expansion of the railroad have America?

• Created a national market• New Products now

available– Gustavus Swift/Meat

Packing• Used refrigerated RR

cars – Fruit industry

• Chain Stores– Woolworth– Macy’s

Railroads

How did businesses change as a result of the Industrial Revolution?

• Became Big businesses

• Heavy industries (RR, factories) grew

• Managerial Revolution

• Mass Production

• Mergers

Is this a bad thing?

Conclusion

• Industrialized America

• From Rural to Urban

• Small to big business

• Artisanship to Mass Production

• Immigration