U.S. History: Expansion of Industry

Read the Black Gold section of your textbook, page 231.

Take note of what Edwin Drake invented and how oil was initially used and its "byproduct."

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Black Gold!

Natural Resources - Industrialization

Edwin L. Drake used a

steam engine to remove oil from beneath the earth's surface.

Oil

Coal

Steel

Notes 2.8

Natural Resources - Industrialization

Edwin L. Drake used a

steam engine to remove oil from beneath the earthy's surface.

Coal production
skyrocketed in the
late-1800s, largely in
northern Minnesota.

Oil

Coal

Steel

Notes 2.8

Read through the Bessemer Steel Process and Open-Hearth Process part of your textbook.

Take note of the way that iron was improved and turned into steel.

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Natural Resources - Industrialization

Edwin L. Drake used a

steam engine to remove oil from beneath the earthy's surface.

Coal production
skyrocketed in the
late-1800s, largely in
northern Minnesota.

The Bessemer Process

allowed for the

strengthening of iron to

make steel.

Oil

Coal

Steel

Notes 2.8

Railroads

Consider the advantages that steel brought to the expansion of the United States. Can you think of examples of how these innovations have impacted your city?

Bridges

Skyscrapers

Important Innovations of the late-1800s

Thomas Edison

Alexander Graham Bell

Christopher Sholes

Incandescent

Light Bulb

Telephone

Typewriter

Notes 2.10

Read "The Power of Electricity" in your textbook, page 232. Take note of how electricity changed American life and business.

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The Power of Electricty

Read through "Inventions Change Lifestyles" on page 233. Consider the inventions discussed, but take special note the type of jobs that Americans performed in the Gilded Age.

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American Lifestyle

In your graphic organizer from last week, I asked you to consider what opportunites homesteaders were giving up to live their life out West. After this lesson, fill out that oval of the graphic organizer.

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Consider the alternatives for Homesteaders