Western & Eastern U.S. 1870-1900

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Western Eastern U.S.1870-1900

• By Myles
• For Mr. McCarthy

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People Of The East

• Miners
• Businessmen Carnegie, Rockefeller
• Factory workers

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Industry Of The East

• Oil
• Steel
• Factories
• Inventions

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Industrial Revolution

• 1865-1920
• Coal, Steel, Iron
• Pittsburgh, Birmingham, Chicago, Gary, Cleveland,
  Detroit
• Railroad hubs Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh,
  St. Louis, Atlanta

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Inventions

• Light bulb Thomas Edison in 1879.
• Telegraph Samuel Morse in 1800s.
• Barbed wire Joseph E. Glidden in 1873.
• Motion pictures Thomas A. Edison in 1893.
• Coca-Cola 1886
• Cotton Candy 1897
• Combines late 1800s
• Telephone 1876

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Steel Industry

• By 1850, steel made more cheaply
• Steel needed for railroad tracks
• Many steel mills built
• Carnegie bought a lot of them

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Oil Industry

• Grease and kerosene for lamps
• Refineries made to turn oil into products people
  use
• Rockefeller bought most refineries
• He had a monopoly

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Ellis Island

• Chinese immigrants to California during Gold
  Rush
• Mexican immigrants to Texas and West
• European immigrants largest group Italy,
  Greece, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Armenia, Russia
• Ellis Island accepted immigrants in 1892
• Worked factory jobs

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Tenements

• Apartment houses
• Poorly built
• Crowded
• No windows
• Different families
• Diseases
• Garbage
• Rats and insects

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Labor Day

• September 5, 1882 in New York City
• Break from long work hours
• 10 hour work days
• Young children worked full time

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Transcontinental Railroad

• Union Pacific Railroad built from Nebraska west
• Connected the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
• Central Pacific Railroad built from California
  east
• The two met at Promontory, Utah

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People Of The West

• Settlers
• Homesteaders
• Cowboys
• Native Americans

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Animals Crops Of The West

• Beef Cattle
• Horses
• Rye
• Corn
• Potatoes
• Wheat

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Gold Rush

• Jan 24, 1848 James Marshall discovers gold
• Led to new towns being developed westward
• By 1849, thousands of people leave to travel to
  California (Forty-Niners)
• San Francisco averages thirty new houses a day
• Gold runs out, but entrepreneurs stay
• Mining continues big corporations

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Homestead Act of 1862

• Anyone 21 years old could claim 160 acres of land
  
• Had to build a house and farm for five years
• By 1900, over 8 million acres were claimed
• These settlers were called homesteaders.
• Repealed in 1976
• Sod houses

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Western Farmers and Settlers

• Sod houses
• Extreme temperatures
• Insect problems grasshoppers in 1874
• Windmills for water
• Harvesting machines

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Mule Powered Harvester
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Native Americans

• Made to move to reservations
• War with Apaches to force them to move in 1850s
  Geronimo
• Indians forced to farm
• Hard to grow crops
• Way of life changed

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Other Interesting Facts

• 1874 Buffalo hunted to near extinction
• 1876 - First National League game
• 1876 Custer and the Battle at Little Bighorn
• 1880 Cameras with film inside
• 1884 Worlds first true skyscraper built in
  Chicago
• Labor Unions organized

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Differences

• West
• Farmers
• Newly settled land
• Newly established cities
• No factories

• East
• Businessmen, factory workers
• Established farms
• Older cities
• Factory work

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Similarities

• All wanted a better life
• Children in both parts of the country worked
• Low wages unless you were a factory owner
• Depended on each other for goods and services
  (railroad, steel factories)
• Immigrants

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What was the name of the railroad that connected
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts?
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Why did the West need more steel?
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How did the East depend on the West?
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Why was the railroad important?
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What do you think was the most important
invention of that time?Why?
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If you had to choose, would you have been a
farmer/homesteader or a factory worker?Why?