U.S History Module 2 DBA Notes
similarities and differences between the First and Second Industrial Revolutions increase in immigration decrease in agricultural jobs increase in factory jobs economic challenges to farmers and farmers responses to those challenges in the mid to late 1800s fewer farm workers were needed; farmers went to bigger cities for factory jobs farms were shut down; farmers became industrial workers changes that occurred as the United States shifted from an agrarian to an industrial society
Social Darwinism- a 19th-century doctrine that the social order is a product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions. migration to cities urbanization the causes, course, and consequences of the labor movement in the late 1800s and early 1900s cause- the want for better working conditions and better treatment from their employers
In 1833 the Factory Act passed by Parliament. The law limited the amount of time children could work. In the 20th century the Children’s Bureau was founded in 1912, which the U.S. government was responsible to monitor child labor. the impact of political machines in the United States
Local politicians could quickly and effectively organize help for individuals or groups of individuals. What the bosses asked for in return was your vote to keep them in office.
It was complete and absolute throughout the entire machine. Everybody got their cut - except the average citizen. significant inventors and inventions of the Industrial Revolution
James Watt
First reliable Steam Engine
1775
Eli Whitney
Cotton Gin, Interchangeable parts for muskets
1793, 1798
Robert Fulton
Regular Steamboat service on the Hudson River
1807
Samuel F. B. Morse
Telegraph
1836
Elias Howe
Sewing Machine
1844
Isaac Singer
Improves and markets Howe's Sewing Machine
1851
Cyrus Field
Transatlantic Cable
1866
Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone
1876
Thomas Edison
Phonograph, First Long-Lasting Incandescant Light Bulb
Social Darwinism- a 19th-century doctrine that the social order is a product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions. migration to cities urbanization the causes, course, and consequences of the labor movement in the late 1800s and early 1900s cause- the want for better working conditions and better treatment from their employers
In 1833 the Factory Act passed by Parliament. The law limited the amount of time children could work. In the 20th century the Children’s Bureau was founded in 1912, which the U.S. government was responsible to monitor child labor. the impact of political machines in the United States
Local politicians could quickly and effectively organize help for individuals or groups of individuals. What the bosses asked for in return was your vote to keep them in office.
It was complete and absolute throughout the entire machine. Everybody got their cut - except the average citizen. significant inventors and inventions of the Industrial Revolution
James Watt
First reliable Steam Engine
1775
Eli Whitney
Cotton Gin, Interchangeable parts for muskets
1793, 1798
Robert Fulton
Regular Steamboat service on the Hudson River
1807
Samuel F. B. Morse
Telegraph
1836
Elias Howe
Sewing Machine
1844
Isaac Singer
Improves and markets Howe's Sewing Machine
1851
Cyrus Field
Transatlantic Cable
1866
Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone
1876
Thomas Edison
Phonograph, First Long-Lasting Incandescant Light Bulb