We contunued presenations...Chapter 6 Lesson 1;Bessemer steel process. Iron hard to work with because it was soft and tends to break and rust. When iron, it has carbon in it. When you remove the carbon, it became steel. Henry Bessemer; came up with the Bessemer steel process.Patillo Higgins; merchant and lumber merchant.Captain Anthony F. Lucas; experienced prospector. He was the only person who had believed Higgins belief about the oil in the springs. Wasn't until the 1900 when they found oil. Began Texas oil boom. Black Gold- oil.Edwin L. Drake; early 1859, successfully drilled with a steam engine for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania. Texas oil boom started in Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and eventually make it to texas.Cause of industrial revolution to start; Oil, steel, wealth of natural resources, government stayed out of busnesses affairs, growing urban population.Light Bulb; Edison didn't invent the light bulb but only made it better by making it last for more that just a few secondsTypewriterTelephone; Bussnesses could communicate better with costomers.Chapter 6 Lesson 2; Age of RailroadsRailroads make local transportation and shiping abailable to small towns and cities. Made time zones and standard time to be set.National network; by 1856; railroads had extended to Mississippi river and three yars later to the missouri river.New towns and markets. new towns came up because of the railroad.Impact that railroads had; New towns were created. Created time zones.Railroads charged too much for farmers to do any thing.Granger laws were that everything had to be equal.Mon Vs. Illinois; Suprime Court favored grangers and their laws. 1877.Interstate Commers Act; Make sure that railroads were being fair with their railroad companies. President Teddy streangthend the act.Chapter 6 lesson 3;
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