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After the Civil War the US was still largely an agriculture nation, by the 1920's almost 60 years after the civil war we became the leading industrial power in the world. This was because wealth of natural resources, government support, for the businesses and the growing urban population of all of this provided both cheap labor
and markets for new products to come out.
Native Americans used oil before we even came over here, black gold, originally we didn't really have any use of it. In 1840's we started using kerosene for light for lamps- this strted the oil boom in Kentucky, Ohio Illinois, Indiana , and later in Texas- Gasoline was a bi-product and was originally thrown way- after cars were invented gasoline became the leading form of oil- Iron became very popular, Iron and coal were very plentiful- The supplies needed to amke steel were ready and i t was fairly cheap proces itw also effficient, The Bussemer process was used in 1880 to produce 90 percent of the nations steal was replaced by open hearth process- The finding of oil and gasoline, and steel production became much cheaper- main points
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Railroad- biggest consumer of steel- barbweirer~invention of steel, the Brookelyn Bridge, first Skyscraper- space needed in cities- Electricity- George Westinghouse helped make electricity safer and cheaper-ran many machines -homes and appliances- Made urban travel cheap and effciant- Thomas Eddison created and panted light bulb- Christoper Sholes invented the type writer- Telephone was created by Alexander Gram Bell on March 10, 1876. Jobs for women were created, Typewriters encoured the feminilization of office work,
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