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What natural resources were key to U.S. industrialization? How did inventions in the period effect business and social life? Things you will learn:

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Page 1: What natural resources were key to U.S. industrialization? How did inventions in the period effect business and social life? Things you will learn:

What natural resources were key to U.S. industrialization?

How did inventions in the period effect business and social life?

Things you will learn:

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The Age of Railroads

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Time Zones

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Industry in Gilded Age

Oil:

• used for lamps, machinery

• Begin to use steam drill by Edwin Drake to get out of ground

• Drill in KY, OH, IL, IN

Coal:

• used for fires to power steam engines on trains, fires to make steel, heat homes

• Mined in WV, PA, OH, IN, IL

Natural Resources

Iron Ore:

• used to make steel

• use coal fires to burn carbon out and make steel

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Steel:

•William Kelly & Bessemer Process

• uses: RRs, barbed wire, farm machinery, bridges, skyscrapers

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Inventions

Electricity:

• Thomas Edison

• Perfected light bulb

• Power grid

• Uses: Factories streetcars appliances

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Inventions

Typewriter:

• Christopher Sholes/ James Densmore

• Sped up / standardized communication

Telephones:

• Alex Graham Bell

• Speeded communication / rate of business

Creates clerical jobs for white single women

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