UNIT 2 INDUSTRIALIZATION LESSON 2 New Inventions and

UNIT #2 – INDUSTRIALIZATION LESSON #2 New Inventions and Free Enterprise (94 -95)

New Plan for Composition Book: ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS 1. What was America’s role in the “second” industrial revolution? 2. What type of man was the typical entrepreneur in this time? NEW VOCABULARY • Thomas Edison • Menlo Park • Alexander Graham Bell • Laissez-Faire • Free Enterprise System • Entrepreneurs

Intro to lesson • What is an invention? • Give examples. • What’s the most amazing invention you’ve ever seen? • What’s the most amazing invention you know exists, but you’ve never seen? • What SHOULD be invented?

Intro to lesson • What is an invention? • Give examples. • What’s the most amazing invention you’ve ever seen? • What’s the most amazing invention you know exists, but you’ve never seen? • What SHOULD be invented, that nobody’s yet done successfully?

Start of Industrial Revolution (England, 1750) • Most people were living on farms • Life was hard, but families were close • Population explosion in late 1700 s led to: – Lots of people willing to work for cheap • Too many people on farms to sustain population • People moved to cities, for new opportunity – Lots of people needing products • From this, the Industrial Revolution was born 3 m

The “second” Industrial Revolution Immigration and births after Civil War (in USA) • • American industry EXPLODED • Great men with great minds and great ideas appeared • They were usually born poor • But saw opportunity • Worked hard • Demanded excellence • And became self made millionaires • Powerful… rich men • Others invented amazing new inventions…

Inventors of America • Thomas Edison – “The Wizard of Menlo Park” (NJ • Research facility – Famous from invention of phonograph (1877) – And lightbulb (1879) • Alexander Graham Bell – Experimented with transmitting sound – Invented the telephone (1876)

Other big American inventions • In Menlo Park – Battery – Motion picture • Cyrus Field – Trans-Atlantic cable (1866) • George Westinghouse (Wm Tesla) – Alternating Current (safe electricity) • Thaddeus Lowe – Ice machine (1865) • Home inventions – Dishwasher, washing machine, power sewing machine What did these other men invent? (find out on p. 94)

Free Enterprise • Early business owners worked hard to get rich • They resented any government interference – LASSEZ-FAIRE – Government should keep hands OFF business – Believed competition would regulate price – Believed this way promoted wealth for all

Free Enterprise • People willing to risk their $$ to make it rich were called ENTREPRENEURS • USA became one of biggest trade centers in the world during and after Civil War

Are YOU willing to make such an investment in yourself… … and your future? Carnegie Rockefeller Vanderbilt 1: 30 -8: 30