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Day 91 US War and Expansion / Nineteenth Century Progress Extra Credit: Origins of Species by Darwin (Book)

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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

19th Century Progress

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

Discussion Questions

• Why do you think that Darwin’s theories were seen as controversial?