Industrial Revolution

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Samuel Morse invented the telegraph. It communicated using a series of beeps (Morse code).

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telephone

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

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Robber Barons

Andrew Carnegie owned US Steel.

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Steel Mill at night.

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Robber Barons

John D. Rockefeller owned the railroads and the oil industries

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Monopoly

Carnegie and Rockefeller ran their competition out of business.

A monopoly is when one company controls the entire industry.

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Thomas Edison

The light bulb allowed factories to work at night.

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Phonograph

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Edison’s inventions

Motion picture camera

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Immigration

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Pull factors

Immigrants come to the USA for jobs and opportunities.

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Pull factors are good stuff to bring immigrants here like jobs.

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Jobs pulled immigrants here.

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Free land was a pull factor

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Push factors

Push factors are bad stuff to push immigrants away like war or disease. This is potato famine.

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Many immigrants lived in tenements.

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