Monday, October 19, 2015

US History

Today we started Chapter 3

For Homework:
1. Finish your cornell notes for Chapter 3 Section 1
2. Complete the following worksheet
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2mk7v8cXovLck93TXdodjZhVlh5aS1NU1JhQlhuY25RczZn/view?usp=sharing
3. Study for your quiz on Wednesday

This is the reading we will do on Thursdsay:
http://www.bevcline.com/kerosene.pdf

Here are the notes from today:

Chapter 3
The Triumph of Industry


Carnegie: Steel Company
Rockefeller: Oil (controlled over 90% of oil industry)
Vanderbilt: Railroad tycoon
JP Morgan: Investment banker (First Billionaire)

Reasons for Industrial Growth: Natural Resources, Inventions


SECTION 1:

Essential Question: What factors led to the expansion of industry and business in the United States in the late 1800’s?

1.     Natural Resources: We had a lot of them
a.     Resources that cannot be made by man, but are made in nature.
                                               i.     Forrest = timbers,
                                              ii.     Rivers: water/rivers = shipping transportation
                                            iii.     Coal (for trains, boats, factories)
                                           iv.     Iron build things with it, we turned iron into steel
                                             v.     Oil

2.     Growing Workforce
a.     Many immigrants from Europe: Cheap Labor force
3.     Innovations and Inventions: Create new ideas, new ways of doing things
a.     Entrepreneurs develop new products
b.     Government policies encourage development
                                               i.     Laissez faire capitalism: Business competition or lack thereof, government not involved in business
4.     Railroads
a.     Connect the nation’s industries
b.     Allows companies to grow too

What is industry?
The use of machines and factories to produce goods

Industrialism: when society (people) comes to rely (depend) on the modern means of production, it is known as industrialism.


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