PPT-Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900

281 534422 492 934738 633 1200948 773 14681159 industry reprints, and Period 6. The transformation of the United States from an. agricultural to an increasingly industrialized and urbanized. society brought about significant economic, political,. diplomatic, social, environmental, and cultural changes.. 1865-1914. UNIT VI: “The Gilded Age.”. So, what is it all about?. “The transformation of the United States from an agricultural to an increasingly industrialized and urbanized society brought about significant political, economic, diplomatic, social, environmental and cultural changes.” . America Moves to the City. The Urban Frontier. The Urban Frontier. 1870 40 million people doubled by 1900, population in the cities tripled. The Urban Frontier. 1870 40 million people doubled by 1900, population in the cities tripled. Lesson 6 . New Ways of Life. Learning Objectives. Explain how technology, new types of stores, and marketing changed Americans' standard of living.. Analyze mass culture and education in the late 1800s.. The New South. The Myth of the New South. A Fresh Vision-. It needed a new vision; this was provided by Henry Grady, the editor of the . Atlanta Constitution. , who illustrated a “New South”—a “perfect democracy” of farms and industries. .  . The Gilded Age in America: Successes. : . 1. Displays of wealth and excess among upper class. 2. 2nd industrial revolution. 3. Labor union movements. Gilded Age . But underneath, there were problems. Reconstruction (USA). Post war- Expanding businesses, roads, schools, hospitals, etc. Mass production. Immigrants provided workers and new consumers for the clothing industry. Westward expansion. Gold. “Gilded Age” – 1870-1900. Post-Reconstruction America. Phrase coined by Mark Twain; used to represent America during this time. Also, think of a beautiful, shiny, red apple… that is rotten on the inside. Section 1: Miners and Ranchers. Growth of Mining. Task: How do people try to “get rich quick” today?. Growth of the Mining Industry. Placer mining quartz mining were used.. Growth of Mining. Comstock Lode. Chapter 6. Section 1: The New South. Industries and Cities Grow. The South Remained largely agricultural and poor after the Civil War. Farming became more diversified; grain, tobacco, and fruit crops (small farms replaced large plantations). Objective. Understand the difficulties faced by producers in the British Film Industry. The British Film Industry. Timeline – 1900-1940s. Timeline – 1900-1940s. The 1990s and Cool Britannia. . Why is financing a problem?. Ohio’s own Thomas Edison. Invented over 1,000 items including the light bulb, phonograph. . Born in Milan, Ohio.. Edison’s Mono Park lab reconstructed at Greenfield Village in Michigan.. Building on Edison. In this grand-scale narrative history, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands brilliantly portrays the emergence, in a remarkably short time, of a recognizably modern America.  American Colossus captures the decades between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century, when a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen transformed the United States from an agrarian economy to a world power. From the first Pennsylvania oil gushers to the rise of Chicago skyscrapers, this spellbinding narrative shows how men like Morgan, Carnegie, and Rockefeller ushered in a new era of unbridled capitalism. In the end America achieved unimaginable wealth, but not without cost to its traditional democratic values.