Causes
Business
Steel
Edison/Bell
Inventions
100
Forests, water, mineral wealth
What are natural resources?
100
The pattern of ups and downs that industry experiences.
What is the business cycle?
100
This man found a cheaper way to produce steel.
Who is Henry Bessemer?
100
He found the most ways to use electricity.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
The sewing machine.
What did Isaac Singer invent?
200
These inventions improved transportation.
What are steamboats, canals and railroads?
200
Boom.
What is a good time in an industry?
200
Because of this, steel was very expensive to produce.
What is large amounts of coal?
200
Samuel Morse.
Who invented the telegraph?
200
Isaac Singer's discovery launched this industry.
What is the clothing industry?
300
Banks and wealthy people lent businesses money in hopes of gaining a profit.
What is investment capital?
300
Workers are laid off, businesses close, spending and investing decrease and production goes down.
What is a bust?
300
Used less than 1/7 the amount of coal.
What is the Bessemer Steel Process?
300
Edison's most famous discovery.
What is the first form of practical lighting?
300
Christopher Latham Sholes.
Who created the typewriter?
400
These 14 million people provided industry with special skills and labor.
What is high immigration?
400
At its height, 3 million people lost their jobs.
What is the depression of 1873?
400
500x.
How much did steel production increase due to the Bessemer Steel Process?
400
The telephone.
What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?
400
The switchboard and typewriter created jobs for this group of people.
Who are women?
500
Government assistance.
What are tariffs, land grants and subsidies?
500
Between these years industry grew tremendously in the U.S.
What is 1860-1900?
500
New products made from steel.
What are nails, plows, barbed wire, beams, and rails?
500
The celebration of America's 100th birthday in Philadelphia. Bell's telephone was considered a "scientific marvel."
What is the Centennial Exhibition?
500
This man discovered an efficient way to obtain petroleum from the earth.
Who is Edwin Drake?
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