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Computer
Internet
Airbags
Cell phones
Video games
Pick two and write a paragraph describing their importance in American’s daily lives.
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The Expansion of Industry
Late 1800s
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Industrial Boom
After the Civil War, the US was largely an agricultural nation.
1920s it had become the leading industrial power in the world.
Factors:Wealth of natural resources
Government supports business
Growing urban population (cheap labor and markets for new products)
How did these factors leave to an industrial boom?
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Natural Resources
Black Gold- OilNative Americans made fuel and medicine from crude oil
1840s Americans begain using kerosene to light lamps.
Cars- Gasoline in high demand.
Iron Ore- SteelRailroads
Barbed Wire
Brooklyn Bridge
Home Insurance Building in Chicago
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Electricity
Edison’s incandescent light bulb
Invented a system for producing and distributing electrical power.
Electricity and BusinessRan numerous machines
Electricity and HomeEnergy soon became available in hoes and spurred the invention of time-saving appliances.
Electric streetcars
Manufacturers could locate their plants wherever they wanted.
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Inventions
Typewriter, 1867Author Mark Twain, was excited when he learned about typewriters. He rushed out to buy one, writing letters in all capitals to his friends about its usefulness: “THE MACHINE HAS SEVERAL VIRTUES….IT PILES AN AWFUL STACK OF WORDS ON ONE PAGE. IT DON’T MUSS THINGS OR SCATTER INK BLOTS AROUND. OF COURSE IT SAVES PAPER.
Telephone, 1876
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Which invention or development do you think had the greatest impact on society?
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Eijah McCoy
“Is this the real McCoy?”