The People of the American Industrial Revolution

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The People of the American Industrial Revolution

• Garlands 5th Grade Students 2007-08

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Alexander Graham Bell

• Invented telephone 1876
• Started a school for deaf people
• Audiologist
• First President of the National Geographic
  Society
• First kite to
• carry a man.

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Grover Cleveland

• President of United States 1885-1889 1893-1897
• Forestry legislation

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Edwin L. Drake

• American oil driller
• Drive pipe for drilling
• Drilled the first oil well
• Oil-1859

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Samuel Gompers

• Labor leader
• American Federation of Labor- it fought for
  better working conditions

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H.L. Mencken

• humorous journalist
• critic of American life

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Terrence Powderly

• Knights of Labor-1876
• Labor Union- organized the skilled and unskilled
  workers

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William Graham Sumner

• United States sociologist
• Proponent of Social
• Darwinism
• Against the Spanish American War
• Did not want us to purchase more territory

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Sir Henry Bessemer

• Converted iron ore to steel
• Did not go to school
• From England
• Made gold powder to make gold paint
• Made a government stamp that could not be copied

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Eugene V. Debs

• Labor organizer
• Socialist Party
• Ran and lost 5 times for President of the United
  States

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George Eastman

• Invented the camera
• 1884 patented first roll of film
• Kodak camera
• Donated lots of money

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William Kelly

• Dry goods business
• Discovered that air would increase the
  temperature of molten iron
• Patten for making iron

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John Pierpont Morgan

• Funded inventors
• Well educated
• Invested his inheritance
• Owned lots of railroads
• US Steel

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John D. Rockefeller

• Standard Oil
• Worlds richest person in history
• Was retired for 40 years

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Gustavus Swift

• Meat packing
• Refrigerated freight car
• Gave money to college- YMCA

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Andrew Carnegie

• Founder of Pittsburg Steel Company
• Donated millions of dollars to charities
• Public libraries
• Retirement fund for teachers

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Grenville Dodge

• American civil engineer
• Railroad construction
• W SW

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Thomas Alva Edison

• Invented the telegraph and electric recorder
• Tin foil phonograph
• 13 hours light bulb
• Founded many companies to sell his lighting
  supplies
• Phonograph

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Emma Lazarus

• American writer (poet)
• The New Colossus
• Poem on base of Statue of Liberty

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John Muir

• Advocate for nature
• Started the Sierra Club and was the first
  president
• Environmentalist
• 1876 Federal Forrest
• 1890 Yosemite Park- National Park

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Theodore Roosevelt

• 26th President of US
• Founded the Boone and Crockett Club
• Teddy
• Progressive
• Worked to
• make food
• safer.

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George Westinghouse

• Made railroads safer
• 360 inventions
• Rotary steam engines
• Invented a frog so trains can change to another
  set of tracks
• Air brakes is what he is most famous for

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Wright Brothers

• First airplane flight
• Flew it in NC
• Sold the first plain to the
• Army

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Albert Einstein

• Scientist
• Atomic Bomb
• Theory of Relativity
• Nuclear Energy
• emc2
• Professor at Princeton
• Physics

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James Watt

• Steam Engine

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Eli Whitney

• Cotton Gin