class notes 1-3 Flashcards
passed by congress during the civil war, but unrelated to the war. Becomes signifigant because of the after effects. It granted 120 acres of federal land and all that had to be paid was the legal fees and promise to improve the land within one year, had to be a private landowner-goal was to get as many people to settle the west as possible
Homestead Act-1862
take top soil, cut it into bricks and build dirt houses
Sod houses
- 1st major government department-1st service oriented department, not strategically related to government
Department of agriculture
turned over federal land to states per representative in congress, then sold by the state to fund education
Morril Act
established county agents whose job was to study soil/climate in the county
Smith-lever act
barbed wire
Joseph Glidden
made fencing available without massive use of wood, served its purpose as a barrier
barbed wire
greatest marksman/shooter to ever live
Annie Oakley
What aids in industrialization
Natural resources Large labor force Railroads/transportation Technology (applied science) Chrisitan ethic Political system encouraged laissez faire
invents the telephone in 1876, founded American Telegraph and Telephone company
Alexander Graham Bell
Gospel of wealth-their business opportunity was in and of itself a ministry
Andrew Carnegie
-(Christian) operated by the Golden Rule
J.C. Penny
1st communication organization in the world
Western Union
professional inventor, the means of being able to record sound, invents lightbulb, phonograph
Thomas Edison
year of the Lightbulb by Edison
1879
established 1st research/development lab at Menlo Park
Edison
Designs modern electrical grid, and direct current
Edison
Greatest American inventor in history
Edison
competes with Edison
George Westinghouse
goes to work for Westinghouse, discovers alternating current
Tesla
the black Edison, invents the circuit breaker
Granville T Woods
invents the assembly line
Henry Ford
developed a process for converting iron
Bessemer/Kelly
buys a steel business and sells it to J.P. Morgan and merges it to become U.S. Steel
Carnegie
