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cameron emmons
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11th Grade
03/03/2016

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Lapsanshy-Werner et al.     100     The Triumph of Industry (1865-1914)

  • After the Civil war America started to imbrace innovation, technology, and expancion of business.
  • America has become a world industrial power house
  •  The civil war started it all with demands of goods needing to be produced quicker.
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Lapsanshy-Werner et al.     100     The Triumph of Industry (1865-1914)

  • factorys increase there rate of production to meet these damands for the war.
  • Industry soon began to boom in the north and soon spread to all of America
  • Means of transpertation also expaned dramaticly, needing to transport the excess of goods to there destinations.
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Lapsanshy-Werner et al.     100     The Triumph of Industry (1865-1914)

  • factorys increase there rate of production to meet these damands for the war.
  • Industry soon began to boom in the north and soon spread to all of America
  • Means of transpertation also expaned dramaticly, needing to transport the excess of goods to there destinations.
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Lapsanshy-Werner et al.     100     The Triumph of Industry (1865-1914)

  • Natural resorces and Fuel demands grow.
  • Coal mines work tirelessly to meat the demands of factories and steam locomotives.
  • 1859 Edwin Drake drilles the first oil well
  • The oil industrys grew quickly after this.

 

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Lapsanshy-Werner et al.     101-102     The Triumph of Industry (1865-1914)

  • Horatio Algers bookRagged Dick, and Street life in New Yorkinspried the idea of rags to richs this idea depened on Capitalism, or free market
  • protective taffirs were made to make people to buy american made products.
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Lapsanshy-Werner et al.     101-102     The Triumph of Industry (1865-1914)

  • in 1876 inventor Thomas Edison supported By J.p. Morgan Made a reasearch labor at menlo park in new jersey.
  • Samuel Mores in 1844 invented a telegraph technoligy that sent messages threw powerlines.
  • Alexander Grand Bell invented the telephone in 1876.
  • Guglielmo Marconi invented a wirless telegraph in 1896.
  • !850 Henery bessemer created a process in witch to extract iron ore from other nonusible metals called the bessemer process.
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Lapsanshy-Werner et al.     104    The Triumph of Industry (1865-1914)

  • Rail Roads spead.
  • Rail roads could transport large amounts of goods alot quicker.
  • by 1880 Americas exports pf grai, steel, and ,textiles.
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Lapsanshy-Werner et al.     105     The Triumph of Industry (1865-1914)

  • exports of goods and food spread americas economy.
  • US became a world power.
  • Changes in the industry changed the way americans lived there lives.
  • Yellow stone national park in 1872 was the first federal responces to concers about the environment.
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Lapsanshy-Werner et al.     107     The Triumph of Industry (1865-1914)

  • investors came up with corporations.
  • within corporations felt an economic problem, they lose no more than what had already invested.
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