Today Rey started his presentation on. Bessemer steel process started when iron was too hard to work with because it was too weak and would break so they turned to steel. Henery Bessemer moved to france when he was young. Capt. Anthony Lucas waw the only person who belived that oil in the springs. Wasn`t til1900 that they started drilling for oil. Oil was one reason the indusrial revolution took off. When Anthony and Higgins got to the oil they started calling it black gold. Texas oil boom started in Kentucky,Ohio,Illinois,Indiana, and then Texas.Government has a lazefair approach. which means let the businesses do what they want. that allowed business to expand, which provived jobs. provided a market for goods.Thomas Edison didn`t invent the light bulb,he just made it better. Alexander Grahmn Bells telephone.6-2What impact did the railroads have ?To help grow cities and the trans continental railroad was made to connect one big railroad the streched all the way across the united states. By having the railroad new towns had sprung up and new markets had developed. Transporting goods and poeple across the countrty. It also provided jobs.Why were people upset ?forced to sell land. They were loud. farmers were getting overcharged to use the railroad.What did the Gov. do to regulate the railroad?grainger laws were a seires of laws that were created to set fair rates with the railroad. in Mun vs. Illinois was a court case in which the supreame court was in favor with the grainger. The interstate commerse act is a five person team that went around to make sure railroads were being fair.
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