How'd the industrial revolution take off?1. We were a country with a ton of natural resources.2. Governments did what they wanted.3. Government support for business.4. Captains of industry, Rockefeller, and Carney.5. Growing urban population.6. Oil For Fuel.7. Besermer process, used to make steel cheaply.8. The light bulb by Thomas Edison.9. Christopher Schules Invention of the type writers10. Alexander Bell's invention of telephone.The Age of the RailroadsA National Network-In the mid 1800s there was railroad expansion to the west, on may 10, 1869 the Union Pacisfic and Central PAcifica Railroads met in Promontoroy Utah. Railroad workers was a bunch of factory worker types, and Italians Romanians Mexicans and African Americans were the pull man porters. 2,000 workers were killed and 20,000 injured.Railroad Time- Each town ran on it's own time. Professor C.F. Dowd thought the earths surface should be divided into 24 time zones.
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