The Industrial Age
Published on Mar 22, 2016
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THE INDUSTRIAL AGE CHAPTER 4
In the last half of the 1800s railroads become the most popular thing ever.People loved the Railroads because they would get people places quick. Rail Road barons controlled the nations rail traffic.Also workers laid about a 11 miles a day!
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Inventions
By the 1910 Americans in cities drove cars through streets with electric lights, but in the 1830 the telegraph was made. Samuel Morse created the first telegraph ever. Morse sent the first message to Baltimore and Washington D.C. In 1844. Even with trains letters would take days. In the late 1800s the telephone was made by Alexander Grand Bell.Inventions have helped us forever
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Businesses
In Western Pennsylvania people had long noticed a sticky black oil- petroleum - that seeped from the ground. Some people actually used the oil as a kind of Medicean. Then in the 1850s researches found out they could burn it to make heat. Edwin L. Drake that they could find large amounts of petroleum by digging well and it worked. So digging a well worked and that was one of the biggest businesses.
Labor
People usually worked in sweatshops and most of them went on strike. They did because they demanded better pay and better working conditions. Earlier in the 1800s, skilled workers in certain trades or crafts had formed unions. By the mid 1800s working conditions worsened.in the 1800s working conditions were awful I could not think how bad it was.
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