Download The immense US industrial boom, in the early Twentieth Century

US Regions and Economy
STD 11.2.6
Objective: identify geographic advantages
and their role in America's emergence as an
economic/industrial power
APK
• Are certain areas better to create certain
items?
– Ag
– Cattle
– Manufacturing
Importance
• U.S. industry needed international trade
during the late 1800s and early 1900s to
• A. obtain spare parts for railroad cars and
steamships.
• B. obtain raw materials and sell more goods to
new markets.
• C. keep the United States dollar on the gold
standard.
• D. provide American consumers with a choice
of products.
Civil War
• Civil War changed way life
– South
• Agriculture – excellent soil for growing
• Slave based economy
• No taxes on goods
– North
• Manufacturing – poor soil for growing
• Immigrants work for little pay
• Tax foreign goods
CFU:
What was the economy of the North?
What was the economy of the South?
Pair Share
Explain which region was better fit to produce on a large scale?
South
• Agriculture stays on top
• No standard for railroads
– Different gages track so trains stop at your track
• Mechanization of farm equipment
– Less farmers produce more
– Less need for farmers – small farms close
CFU:
What was the economy of the South?
Pair Share
How does a lack of railroads hinder the South?
Explain the role mechanization plays in industrialization.
North
• Increased manufacturing
– Transportation through rails
– Raw materials are abundant
– Cities grow
• Incoming farmers
• Immigrants
– Steel production
• Causes cities to grow (up – skyscraper, elevator)
CFU:
What was the economy of the North?
Pair Share
How do the railroads help the North?
Explain a problem that the North has with industrialization.
North
• Mass production causes:
– Need for new markets
– Surplus of goods (overproduction)
– Cheap goods
CFU:
What was the North’s main problem?
Pair Share
How has industrialization in the North shaped America to what it has
become today?
Midwest
• Indian Problems
– Settlers fight for land (believe it is theirs because
they are white)
– Forcefully move Indians to reservations
– Assimilation of Indians
• Demand for Beef
– After Civil War demand for beef increased
– Open plains of Midwest was perfect place
CFU:
What was the economy of the Midwest?
Pair Share
How would open space create and lead to specialization for the Midwest?
Midwest
• Cattle
– Chicago, Kansas City, St Louis, Omaha became ending
point for cattle
– Railroads allowed easy shipping
– Freezer rail cars
– Butchered and sent to the East and West
• Farms
– Settlers come by rails
– Drawn to region by land grants by government
– Focus on grain & corn
• Oil
CFU:
What was the main draw for farmers and immigrants?
How did Railroads help farmers?
Pair Share
Do you see a possible problem between farmers and Railroads?
West
• Railroads
– Draw settlers to new areas
– Silver and Gold
• Adventure
• Farming
CFU:
What was the economy of the West?
Pair Share
What is the main draw to the West?
Railroads
• Increased production
– Raw materials
– Finished products
• Consumers themselves
– Steel
– Jobs, oil, workers
CFU:
How do railroads effect or change industrialization?
Urban Cities
• Dense population
• Provide workers for factories
• New problems
– Crime, sanitation, housing
CFU:
How did cities effect or change industrialization?
Closure
• U.S. industry needed international trade
during the late 1800s and early 1900s to
• A. obtain spare parts for railroad cars and
steamships.
• B. obtain raw materials and sell more goods to
new markets.
• C. keep the United States dollar on the gold
standard.
• D. provide American consumers with a choice
of products.
Closure
• Which of the following industrial
developments launched the United States as
a major industrial power by sharpening the
techniques and skills that managers needed
to run other large businesses?
• A telephones
• B railroads
• C labor unions
• D electric lights
Closure
• More than any other invention, the
development of __________ led to increased
economic and industrial growth in the United
States.
• A the steam engine
• B railroads
• C kerosene
• D electric lighting
Closure
• The immense U.S. industrial boom, in the
early Twentieth Century, could be attributed
to __________.
• A a growing urban population
• B government support for businesses
• C an abundance of natural resources
• D All of the above
Closure
• One of the reasons the United States
emerged as an industrial power was the new
readily available natural resource operations
located in the __________.
• A North
• B South
• C West
• D East
Closure
• Which of the following was responsible for
the United States to industrialize rapidly by
giving industry a large work force?
• A immigration
• B emigration
• C health insurance
• D labor unions
Closure
• The use of standardized time and time zones
was introduced in order to benefit
• A. telephone and telegraph operators.
• B. railroad companies and train travelers.
• C. manufacturers who dealt in interstate
trade.
• D. factory owners whose workers had set
schedules.