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Examine factors that encouraged American economic growth in the decades after the Civil War.
Topic: Industrial Revolution
Vocabulary
▪ Free Enterprise System
▪ Bessemer Process
▪ Alexander Graham Bell
▪ Thomas Edison
▪ Entrepreneur
▪ National Market
Important Ideas
▪ New inventions – such as the Bessemer Process for making steel, sewing machine, typewriter, telegraph, telephone, oil well, and electricity – all contributed to America’s economic progress.
▪ Additional railroad construction (encouraged by the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad) created a demand for steel and tied the country together, creating a truly national market from coast to coast.
▪ The free enterprise system encouraged entrepreneurs to develop new industries and expand them.
▪ Entrepreneurs contributed to America’s economic growth.
This slide aligns to the following TLGs;
▪ Define Bessemer Process
▪ List important causes of American industrialization
▪ Explain national market
▪ List important natural resources found in the US that contributed to the success of the Second Industrial Revolution
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This slide aligns to the following TLGs;
▪ Identify Alexander Graham Bell’s technological invention.
▪ Identify Thomas Edison’s technological innovation.
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▪ Describe the free enterprise system
▪ Explain the effect the free enterprise system had on entrepreneurs during the Second Industrial Revolution
▪ Explain the effect population growth had on industrialization
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