Day 91 US War and Expansion /
Nineteenth Century Progress
Extra Credit: Origins of Species by Darwin
(Book)
America Moves West
• Manifest Destiny
• Indian Removal Act
and the trail of tears
• Louisiana Purchase
• Mexico Loses Texas
• Mexican-American
War
Civil War
• Cultural differences:
Industrial North and
Agricultural South
• Issues included slavery
and State rights
• Lincoln is elected and
South Carolina leads
secession
• North wins and begins a
process of reconstruction
• 1/5 of US adult male
population dies
Post War economy
• Mass Immigration
from Europe in East
and Asia in West
• Railroad System
increases
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19
Century Progress
Inventions of the “2nd” Industrial
Revolution
Electricity
• Light Bulb- Thomas Edison
(Menlo Park, New Jersey)
• Electric Generator- Hydroelectric energy. Single family
homes with electricity
Communication
• Telephone- Alexander
Graham Bell
• Guglielmo Marconi- radio
• Auto- Gottlieb Daimler
• Ford- Assembly
• Airplane- Wright Brothers
More Inventions
Alfred Nobel- Dynamite
Alessandro VoltaBattery
Nikolaus Otto- Internal
Combustion Engine
Samuel MorseTelegraph
Mass Culture
• Education and Literacy = More Newspapers
and books
• Weekend Laws
• Musical Variety Shows (Vaudeville)
• Movies (Thomas Edison- Pioneer)
• Sports as entertainment (Football and
Baseball and Olympic revival)
Medicine and Science
• Louis Pasteur- Germ theoryLeads to pasteurization and
vaccination
• William Morton- Anesthesia
• Charles Darwin’s Theory of
Evolution- Origins of
Species
• Genetic Heredity (Mendel)
• Atoms, Periodic Table
(Dmitry Mendeleyev)
• Marie Curry- Nobel Prize for
Chemistry and Physics,
Radioactivity, Polonium
Social Science
• Sociology- study of human society
• Anthropology- Study of culture
• Psychology- study of the
Pavlov- Dog
Summary Question
Who?
1) Developed the theory of evolution.
2) Developed an efficient Assembly Line
3) Developed the Germ theory
4) Invented a practical incandescent light bulb
5) Invented the telephone
6) Identified radioactivity
7) Invented the first Radio
8) Invented the first airplane
9) Developed the theory that much of human actions are based on
unconscious reaction and can be changed based on training
Discussion Questions
• Why do you think that Darwin’s theories
were seen as controversial?