Today Mr. Bruns was actually here. Unfortunately, the Cowboys won this weekend so Bruns is all excited. Pshh. Anyways we takled about our blogs for this weekend. Our blog topics were to pic a section outside of our previous chapter and research and discuss them. After working out a few annoying problems with this stupid laptop, I was able to catch Erin talk about her blog. She talked about Andrew Carnegie and his "rags to riches" story. He started his own steel company which he eventually sold for $1 Billion and is now known as U.S. steel. Next I talked about my blog about the Gilded Age and William Marcy Tweed.Ian didn't do his blog so we moved on to Lumpy. He talked about the creation of the railroads that swept the nation, and the problems that they caused. The owners of the railroads were major jerks. They charged outlandish prices for travel, especially for farmers that were trying to ship their crops for profit. Farmers struggled to make much money at all. Farmers, and others, demanded a decline in prices, and the case went to Congress. Long story short, the prices were finally permanately lowered decades later.Unfortunately we got done talking about our blogs, and Trace had time to do his presentation.Ch. 6.1:-What caused the Industrial revolution to really take off in the late 1800's? The major discovery and large expansion of uses of black gold. Black gold is oil. Oil was found to be used in nearly every machine, along with medecines and whatnot. An oild boom was soon under way. An Iron boom also took place. Henry Bessemer created a very defined process for taking carbon out of iron and refining it. He created a very efficient way to make steel. Steel was then used as the main construction based metal. Steel does not rust, it is a bit more flexible, and stronger than steel.-What were some new inventions in the late 1800's and what affect did they have on people's lives? The telephone, oil drill, light bulb, radio, and other products were invented during this time period. They helped peoples lives by expanding products, helping the world become more flat, and the possibility for the mass spread of information grew by leaps and bounds.Trace did ok, but he was very hyper and pretty tweaky. The End
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