The Industrial Revolution

Inventions

• Cotton Gin
• Textile
• Telegraph
• Steam Engine
• Steamboat

Famous People

• Andrew Carnegie-steel
• Henry Frick-partner of carnegie w/ coal
• John Rockefeller-oil
• Eugene V. Debs-Union railway 

Percentages

• Urban Population: 80%
• Rural Population: 20%

Urbanization

• Jobs
• Farming industry decreased
• Healthcare
• Inventions
• Political and Social status

Women and Children

• Women worked on manufacturing
• Children worked on a lot of textiles
• Grotesque environment because of loss of body parts
• Men would run the company
• Children and Women were like slaves

Working Conditions

• Disease
• Viruses/bacteria
• Abuse
• Dirty, filth brought to houses
• Likely to die or lose limb

New Social Class

• Middle Class and Upper Class
• Average jobs
• Allowed people to be neither dirt poor or extremely rich
• Added a new way of life that could satisfy people

trade union goals

• To establish better wages
• To rebel against large firms like Carnegie Steel
• The Pinkerton National Detective Agency massacred these people
• Employer Benefits
• Insurance/Retirment