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Learning Objectives

Introduce Industrialization Poster Project

Learn about the pros and cons of the train industry in the 19th century

Learning Agenda

Introduce Poster Presentation

Iron Horse Lecture & Cornell Notes

The Iron Horse

Technology

First steam locomotive—1830

Bessemer process 1865-1900: 30,000 to

200,000 miles of track 1869 transcontinental

railroad 4d/25mph &

10d/50mph World industrial power

in 1900

Corporations and TrustsWhat is a corporation? A group of people who are granted a charter that allows them to start a business that is given the same legal rights as an individualWhat is a trust? A combinations of corporations that form a monopoly to eliminate competition

Pros Employment and

Innovation Philanthropy

Cons Corruption Disparity of wealth

Immigration

Pros Land of opportunity Employment

Cons Working Conditions

2,000 employees killed in one year (1882)

Class Conflict Wages, Labor

Unions, Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

West/ U.S. Environment

Pros Trade between east

and west Homestead Act (1862)

160 acres of free land for 5 yrs of cultivation

Cons Native Americans

Sand Creek Massacre (1864)

Environment

Manifest Destiny

Politics

Pros Regulation of

Commerce 1887 Interstate

Commerce Act Trust busting

Interstate Commerce Commission

Cons Corruption Tariffs Local: Voting for jobs

Homework

Read 246-256 in Americans; answer #2 p.249