15.+Industrial+America+in+the+late+Nineteenth+Century


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 * [[image:resourcesforhistoryteachers/rotating gif.gif width="43" height="43"]] For more resources:**
 * ** Late 19th century industrial America, see United States History II.1 **


 * **For the growth of big business and urbanization, see United States History II.2 and Economics #.4 **
 * ** See Dramatic Event page on The Pullman Strike **
 * ** See Influential Literature page on Upton Sinclair and The Jungle **


 * **Formation of Unions and the Rise of Radical Political Parties, see United States History II.5**
 * **See Historical Biography page on Mother Jones**


 * ** Progressivism and the Age of Reform, see United States History II.8 **





[|Wiley and Russell Tap & Die Co., 1897--A Virtual Reality Project]from the Museum of Our Industrial Heritage recreates a factory for cutting machine threads, making possible mass production of items like screws, nuts and bolts.

The Era of Industrial Ascendency 1861-1945 Provides an overview of changes in national politics using the state of Pennsylvania as a case study.

For historical photographs of one of New England's most famous mills, see [|Amoskeag Millyard, Manchester, New Hampshire.]

**Click here for materials on The Pullman Strike of 1894**


 * The Wright Brothers and the Beginnings of the Age of Aviation**

[|The Wright Brothers]from the National Air and Space Museum

[|The Inventive Wright Brothers Primary Source]: Teacher's Guide from the Library of Congress

[|Go here for a simulation of the Wright Brothers first flights] from the Open University.

[|Wright Brothers' Flying Machine: The First Reporter] from //Nova// profiles A. I. Root, aviation's first journalist.

[|Connecticut Proclaims Gustave Whitehead Flew Before the Wright Brothers.] Scientific American (June 13, 2013).

[|Wilbur & Orville Wright:] A Reissue of a Chronology Commemorating the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Orville Wright from NASA (September 2003).