day 91 us war and expansion / nineteenth century progress extra credit: origins of species by darwin...
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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
Inventions of the “2nd” Industrial Revolution
Electricity• Light Bulb- Thomas Edison
(Menlo Park, New Jersey)• Electric Generator- Hydro-
electric 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 Volta- Battery
Nikolaus Otto- Internal Combustion Engine
Samuel Morse- Telegraph
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 theory-
Leads 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 Line3) Developed the Germ theory4) Invented a practical incandescent light bulb5) Invented the telephone6) Identified radioactivity7) Invented the first Radio8) Invented the first airplane9) Developed the theory that much of human actions are based on
unconscious reaction and can be changed based on training