Period 3 & 7

• We will examine the growth of industry and the major inventions during the late 1800s.

• Edison and the future• Go over Atlas Work/ Video Questions• Collect Homework• Chapter 24 Notes• Quiz• Report Card

Growth of RailroadsTranscontinental Railroad built by Union Pacific and Central PacificGovernment didn’t have enough money so Railroads were paid in landTowns that the railroad went through flourished. Towns where the railroads bypassed withered

• Corruption plagued the railroads.• Credit Mobilier Scandal and stock watering where railroads over

inflated the value of their company. Sold their stock for huge profits• Irish and Chinese immigrants worked on the railroad. • Irish for the Union Pacific laying 10 miles of track per day.• Chinese for the Central Pacific much slower speed through the

mountains.

• New Inventions help make train travel safer and more comfortable.• Westinghouse air brake• Pullman sleeping cars• Steel replaced iron rails

Interstate Commerce Act

• Establishes the Interstate Commerce Commission• Allows the government to regulate a business for the first time in US

History• Government is allowed to regulate the railroad industry

Important Inventions and Business Leaders• Alexander Graham Bell Telephone• Thomas Edison Electric Lightbulb

• Andrew Carnegie Steel• Cornelius Vanderbilt Railroad• JP Morgan Banking• John Rockefeller Oil (Standard Oil)

Growth of Labor Unions

• The National Labor Union, formed in 1866, attracted a total of 600,000 members, only lasted six years. • However, it excluded Chinese and didn’t really try to get Blacks and women to

join

• The Knights of Labor, was begun in 1869 andcontinued secretly until 1881. • It only barred liquor dealers, professional gamblers, lawyers,

bankers, and stockbrokers• Haymarket Square Bombing forever associated the

Knights of Labor with anarchists and lowered their popularity

• Samuel Gompers establishes the American Federation of Labor

• Gompers demanded a fairer share for labor. • He simply wanted “more,” and sought better wages, hours, and working

conditions

• Labor Union members only represented 3% of population

• 1894 Government establishes Labor Day to honor Labor Union workers