Monday: Christina from the nature center came and she showed us what the buffalo where used for after the native Americans killed them
Tuesday: We continued presenting our projects
Oil-
Wednesday: We continued presenting our projects on chapters 5-6
Natural Resources Fuel Industrialization- Due to several factors, including: a wealth of natural resources, government support for business, and a growing urban population that provide bot cheap labor and markets for new products.
Black Gold- Native American tribes made fuel medicine, Successfully used a steam engine to drill oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania, Started an oil boom that spread to Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and later Texas
Electricity- Thomas Edison- electricity system/light bulb, Light-Bulb patented in 1880:only burned for 40 hours at first: Edison found carbonized bamboo filament
Workers Standard of Living- Industrialization freed workers from back breaking labor, 1890:Work week reduced by 10 hours
Market- Expanded urban population created a big potential market
Railroads-By the start of the civil war the had over 30,000 miles of tracks, Union Pacific and Central Pacific,
Thursday: We finished up presenting projects and we got new forum post leaders.
Typewriter- Christopher Sholes, affected more office work and created more jobs for women
Telephone- Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson, freed the workers from difficult physical labor.
Steel: Great amount of coal &iron, iron is dense metal, soft, tends to break &rust, Contains Carbon, Used to update bridges, farm machines, barbed wire, and railroads.
Darwinism- Charles Darwin- Theory of evolution
Few people Controlling more- Other people had no chance unless you where rich, Carnegie: Steel, Rockefeller: Oil
Growth and Consolidation- Companies merged with other or were bought out, and became more industrialized, Oil;cheap labor, more centralized.
Friday: Watched a video on the industrial revolution
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