Examine factors that encouraged American economic growth in the decades after the Civil War. Topic:...

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Examine factors that encouraged American economic growth in the decades after the Civil War. Topic: Industrial Revolution

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Examine factors that encouraged American economic growth in the decades after the Civil War.

Topic: Industrial Revolution

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Vocabulary

▪ Free Enterprise System

▪ Bessemer Process

▪ Alexander Graham Bell

▪ Thomas Edison

▪ Entrepreneur

▪ National Market

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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.

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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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