During the mid to late 1800s, there were many technological innovations that resulted in increased industry. Easy production of steel led to the development of skyscrapers and more industrial buildings. The increase of industrial machinery changed the labor force from skilled to unskilled. Due to mass production, the number of products increased, while the cost of products decreased. This helped spur competition.

1. And Then There Was Light,
Followed By Rolling Blackouts:
Industrialization and Immigration
(1800’s or the 19 th Century)

2. Unit 5: Development
of Industrial United
States
This unit will focus on the impact the Industrial
Revolution had on North Carolina and the United
States. Also how immigration and cheap labor
affected the quality of life and caused citizens to
demand change.
http://ncpedia.org/industry
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, Detail from "Girls running warping machines in Loray mill, Gastonia, N.C. Many boys and girls much younger. Boss carefully
avoided them, and when I tried to get a photo which would include a mite of a boy working at a machine, he was quickly swept out of range. 'He isn't
working here, just came in to help a little.' Location: Gastonia, North Carolina," November 1908. Photo ID# LOT 7479, v. 1, no. 0246 [P&P] . From the
records of the National Child Labor Committee (U.S.), Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

3. Define these terms:
Technology Monopolies
Competition Union
Assimilation Strike
Quota Prosperity
Urbanization Corruption

4. It’s Alive! Technological innovations
improve economies.
During the mid to late 1800s, there were many technological
innovations that resulted in increased industry. Easy
production of steel led to the development of skyscrapers and
more industrial buildings. The increase of industrial machinery
changed the labor force from skilled to unskilled. Due to mass
production, the number of products increased, while the cost
of products decreased. This helped spur competition.

5. Define these terms and answer these questions as
you go thru PowerPoint and the provided links on
the following slides:
- Steel
- Cars How did the new forms of technology affect
- Planes the United States’ economy?
- Wright Brothers
- Electric Lights How has technology changed the quality of
- Thomas Edison life of people in the USA?
- R.J. Reynolds
- Global Markets
- Skilled Labor to Unskilled Labor
Use the paper you were given on Thursday as a guide to this lesson.
Spend no more than 10 minutes on each slide Friday and on
Monday. Your goal is to be finished with this topic by Monday End
of class- having completed both the Quia Quiz and this lesson.

6. Watch
http://www.history.com/videos/the-industrial-revolition
- Steel
http://www.history.com/topics/iron-and-steel-industry
Click the above link & read the intro, then scroll down to find this paragraph and
read to the bottom.
In 1856 the British engineer Henry (later Sir Henry) Bessemer developed the
Bessemer process for making steel. Two years later the Siemens-Martin open-
hearth method was developed. Once perfected, these processes greatly lowered
the cost of steel production and allowed the increasingly lavish use of steel for
railroads, construction, and other industrial purposes…..
Who is important and why? Recognize any names?

7. Watch the clip @
http://www.history.com/shows/america-the-story-of-us/videos/henry-ford-and-the-model-t
- Cars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile#19th_century
Click the above link & read section titled 19th Century starting at…
The American George B. Selden filed for a patent on May 8, 1879. His application
included not only the engine but its use in a 4-wheeled car. Selden filed a series of
amendments to his application which stretched out the legal process, resulting in a
delay of 16 years before the.…..
Who is important and why? Recognize any names?
Look at the pictures on the next slide…
Notice the changes over time? What are they?
1875 Siegfried Marcus

8. 1895 Spahr
1894 Lewis
1899 Jackson
1896 King

9. - Planes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_aviation_%
E2%80%93_19th_century Click the above link and
scroll to the bottom of the page looking for
description of the types of planes available in the
1800’s (19th Century)
Who is important and why? Recognize any names?
What kind of planes did they have during this
Century?
http://www.history.com/videos/wright-brothers
Now click the WRIGHT BROTHERS link here or at the
bottom of the Wikipedia page.

10. http://www.history.com/videos/wright-brothers
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1342.htm
- Wright Brothers
Scan through each of these areas below and note a few important points:
1 Childhood
2 Early career and research
3 Flights 4 European skepticism
5 Contracts and return to Kitty Hawk
6 Public showing
7 Patent war
8 In business
9 Smithsonian feud
10 Last years
11 Competing claims
12 Ohio–North Carolina rivalry

11. Listen to Radio Broadcast:
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1330.htm
- Electric Lighting
http://www.ies.org/lighting/history/
Click the above link and scan the page.
Pay close attention to the “First Electric Lamp”, “Gaslight Fixtures”, and the “Spotlight”
on Edison.
For more on Thomas Edison-
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bledison.htm
Another Website. Great video.
http://www.biography.com/people/thomas-edison-9284349

12. - R J Reynolds
Richard Joshua "R.J." Reynolds (1850-1918)
As the sixth of 16 children, Richard Joshua Reynolds left his small Virginia town at an early age
to establish his own company. At the age of 25, Reynolds opened a chewing tobacco
manufacturing company in Winston, North Carolina and quickly became a pioneer in the
industry. He anticipated the growth in the smoking tobacco market and developed a line of
pipe tobaccos. In 1913, he introduced Camel, the first American blend cigarette. His
innovative branding and marketing strategy set the industry standard.
Reynolds was well known for his personal relationship with his employees, most of whom he
knew by name. In 1912, he devised an employee stock option and profit-sharing plan that
enabled many employees to gain financial security.
Reynolds supported various educational and community service projects including hospitals,
churches, higher education and agriculture. By the time of his death in 1918, Reynolds had
revolutionized the tobacco industry and brought economic development to a large area of
North Carolina through his business and philanthropic endeavors.
http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/377/entry/
Scan the article below and see how he revolutionized the
tobacco industry.
http://ncpedia.org/r-j-reynolds-tobacco-company

13. - Global Markets… and why do I care?
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dludden/global1.htm
Scroll down to the very bottom of the page and begin skimming @ this point-
3. The World Empires of Industrial Capitalism, 1750-1950.
a. Phase One: the formation of national economies
Basic eighteenth century economic conditions continued well into the nineteenth
century, until the railway and steam ship began lower transportation costs
significantly, and to create new circuits of capital accumulation that focused on sites
of industrial production in Europe and the US. But important structural changes in
the world economy began in the later decades of the eighteenth century……
NOW FOCUS ON THE LAST PART:
b. Phase Two: world circuits of industrial capital

14. - Skilled Labor vs. Unskilled Labor
http://www.ehow.com/print/about_5410206_skilled-labor-vs-unskilled-labor.html
Make notes on the five short paragraphs on Labor.
Glance over these notes:
http://www.brtprojects.org/cyberschool/history/ch19/19answers.pdf

15. - Skilled Labor vs. Unskilled Labor

16. Questions to Wrap it up
How did the new forms of technology
affect the United States’ economy?
How has technology changed the quality
of life of people in the USA?