THE AGE OF INDUSTRIALIZATION, ITS VISUAL BENEFITS, AND THE NEGATIVES THAT ITS HIDES

THE CHANGING ECONOMY URBANIZATION & CITY LIFE

2nd Industrial Revolution Moving from

● Raw Materials ● Laissez-faire Capitalism Rural
● Labor ● Monopolies (steel, RRs, oil, (farmland)
● Money automobiles)
● Technology ● Mass Production + • Living Closer to
Gov’t Support More Factories • Businesses
● work To Urban Areas (City) supported
● Less Agriculture • Safer Cities
instead of
● Labor Unions • Smaller Rural
farmers
Pop.
IMMIGRATION TECHNOLOGY

Second Wave Immigration - from Southern and Key Inventions

Eastern Europe Transportation • TELEPHONE -
Ethnic Clustering - immigrants and
• Subways Improved
other minorities move
• Trolleys communication
into the same communities
• Automobiles • ELECTRICITY -
Chinese were recruited Tenements - Slums that • More Railroads Allowed for industry to
to immigrate and work housed minority groups
on railroads then later progress and
faced the CHINESE • New refrigeration
EXCLUSION ACT Entertainment, • LIGHT - Longer
CHARACTERISTICS Ragtime, working hours, safer
Vaudeville, etc. cities

New inventions improved The Nation grew politically

Positives quality of life divided over industrial topics Negatives

Mass Production allowed for cheaper productions and Poor working conditions led to safety issues for
an increased economy workers and the creation of labor unions, which were
occasionally violent