https://padlet.com/21caraballojaeden/497k9hxolpri en-us 2018-09-25 17:13:22 UTC 2023-08-21 00:25:35 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Planets.png 21caraballojaeden https://padlet.com/21caraballojaeden/497k9hxolpri/wish/285681725 JP Morgan helped finance railroads, and helped organize U.S Steel along with many other organizations. The US railroad industry faced over expansion and competition. JP Morgan was reorganizing many financially troubled railroads. He eventually gained control of one sixth of America's railroads. ]]> 2018-09-25 17:22:42 UTC https://padlet.com/21caraballojaeden/497k9hxolpri/wish/285681725 21caraballojaeden https://padlet.com/21caraballojaeden/497k9hxolpri/wish/285686772 Steel and Iron were two new materials during the Industrial Revolution. Inventors began experimenting with both materials which created skyscrapers. A ten story Home Insurance Building was the first tall building in Chicago. Soon later the passenger elevator was created for buildings taller than four or five stories high. Skyscrapers grew taller and taller, but the only problem was wind. Today's skyscrapers must be 50 times stronger]]> 2018-09-25 17:30:34 UTC https://padlet.com/21caraballojaeden/497k9hxolpri/wish/285686772 21caraballojaeden https://padlet.com/21caraballojaeden/497k9hxolpri/wish/285687014 The Central Pacific and Union Pacific companies built a railroad that was connecting the United States by the East and the West. Both of the companies were competing against each other. The railroad was 1,912 miles long. The railroad transported goods faster and less expensive. ]]> 2018-09-25 17:30:58 UTC https://padlet.com/21caraballojaeden/497k9hxolpri/wish/285687014 21caraballojaeden https://padlet.com/21caraballojaeden/497k9hxolpri/wish/285687299 Andrew Carnegie was an industrialist and philanthropist.He was a business man who created Carnegie Steel Corporation. The company tried to lower the wages given to the workers. The workers objected and went on strike. Carnegie gave donations to charities as a philanthropist.]]> 2018-09-25 17:31:21 UTC https://padlet.com/21caraballojaeden/497k9hxolpri/wish/285687299 21caraballojaeden https://padlet.com/21caraballojaeden/497k9hxolpri/wish/285687412 Millionaires Row on Euclid Ave, housed many of the nations influential industrialists, like John D. Rockefeller. Cleveland was the sixth largest city in the country in 1910. Euclid Ave went through a rise in taxes and land costs. Today a good amount of the homes still exist.

]]> 2018-09-25 17:31:32 UTC https://padlet.com/21caraballojaeden/497k9hxolpri/wish/285687412 21caraballojaeden https://padlet.com/21caraballojaeden/497k9hxolpri/wish/285687790 The most interesting thing I learned has been George Pullman. I thought it was interesting when he built a whole town for his workers. I had no idea that they had so many rules they had to follow to live there. I also didn't know he built a more comfortable sleeper car. Originally the railroad cars were dirty, uncomfortable, and unsatisfactory.]]> 2018-09-25 17:32:08 UTC https://padlet.com/21caraballojaeden/497k9hxolpri/wish/285687790 21caraballojaeden https://padlet.com/21caraballojaeden/497k9hxolpri/wish/285688310 I loved seeing the big skyscrapers when our 9th grade class took a trip to New York City and when I took a trip with my family this past summer. I had no idea that skyscrapers were created in the Industrial Revolution. I was very surprised to hear that the inventors of skyscrapers experimented with steel and wind. I also didn't know that to be able to have an elevator in a skyscraper it had to be more than four or five stories high. ]]> 2018-09-25 17:32:55 UTC https://padlet.com/21caraballojaeden/497k9hxolpri/wish/285688310