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Fueling the New Industrial Revolution: Oil, Iron, and Coal

Explore the key resources and innovations driving the industrial revolution, from oil drilling in Titusville to the Bessemer Process for steel. Discover how electricity, railroads, and big business transformed society, alongside labor struggles and monopolies.

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Fueling the New Industrial Revolution: Oil, Iron, and Coal

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  1. A New Industrial Age • 3 main areas of focus; Expansion of Industry, Railroads, and Big Business and Labor

  2. Fuel of a Revolution 3 main resources fueling the Industrial Revolution were; Oil, Iron Ore, and Coal.

  3. Black Gold • Titusville, PA – 1859, Edwin Drake uses steam engine to drill for oil. • Invention of auto makes gas #1 byproduct from oil. Task Provide 3 details about John D. Rockefeller

  4. Strong as Steel • Coal and Iron deposits help fuel industry • Iron is dense metal, soft. • Removing carbon makes stronger • Bessemer Process removes carbon • New Uses for steel include; stronger rails and taller buildings.

  5. Inventions • Light Bulb patented 1880 by Thomas Edison, also invents system for producing and distributing electricity • Factories no longer need water for power, spreads industry • Electric streetcars, printing press. • Christopher Sholes invents typewriter • Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone Task How do you think electricity changed the way Americans lived?

  6. Railroads • 1869 – earth is divided into 24 time zones to create a uniform system of time for transporting people and goods. • George Pullman- manufactured Pullman Sleeper Cars, provided housing and services for workers (no alcohol) • Interstate Commerce Act – federal gov’t. to supervise railroad activities

  7. Andrew Carnegie – 1865, Carnegie uses dividends to open Carnegie Steel, Bessemer Process Types of Monopolies Vertical Integration – acquire all suppliers. Horizontal Integration – companies producing similar products merge. Big Business

  8. Types of Monopolies

  9. Charles Darwin – theory of evolution Natural Selection – only the fit (smart and strong) survive This thought applied to laissez faire (allow to do), marketplace should be unregulated. Social Darwinism

  10. Preventing Corruption • Sherman Antitrust Act – made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade

  11. Labor Unions Emerge • Steel Mills – employees work over 70 hours per week. • No vacation, unemployment, sick leave, etc. • Labor early on – National Labor Union (1866), CNLU – Colored National Labor Union, 1869 – Knights of Labor (unskilled), 1886- American Federation of Labor (skilled).

  12. Strikes • Haymarket Affair – Police officers and strikers die when riot erupts (1886) • Homestead Strike – Workers close steel mill until Penn. National Guard arrives. • Pullman strike – workers upset over low wages, federal troops break up strike, strikers fired and blacklisted • Yellow Dog Contract – new employees agree to not join union

  13. Impact of an Era

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