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

2. Vocabulary Free Enterprise System Bessemer Process
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Entrepreneur
National Market

3. 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.

4. 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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5. This slide aligns to the following TLGs;
Identify Alexander Graham Bell’s technological invention.
Identify Thomas Edison’s technological innovation.
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6. This slide aligns to the following TLGs;
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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