The Expansion of Industry - The Gilded Age

​The Expansion of Industry

​For this assignment, you will need the following materials. Make sure you have them available:
Textbook
Homesteader Graphic Organizer Worksheet
The Gilded Age Notes Packet

1) Answer the questions as they are asked.
2) Fill out your The Gilded Age Notes Packet as the slides are displayed.
3) FIll out your Homesteader Graphic Organizer. Please hold on to this sheet. You will submit it with your Homesteader Journal Entry Assignment.

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!

Open Ended

What did Edwin Drake invent and when did he invent it? What was the initial use of the oil and what was it's "byproduct?"

How impactful do you think Drake's invention was on American society (think about your world today and how it connects to this moment)?

3-4 sentences

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 earth'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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The Bessemer and Open-Hearth Process

Multiple Choice

What was removed from the iron to make it lighter, more flexible, and rust-resistant?

• Iron oxide
• Carbon
• Aluminum
• Nickel

Multiple Select

What two people independently developed the Bessemer process?

• Thomas Edison

• Henry Bessemer

• William Kelly

• Henry Ford

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

Open Ended

How has steel been utilized in Toledo, Ohio? Give some examples, based on how the advantages that steel brought to America, of how you have noticed it in Toledo.

2-3 complete sentences

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

Open Ended

In 2-3 sentences, explain how electricity changed life in America.

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

Multiple Choice

Who invented the typewriter?

• Henry Ford
• Christopher Latham Sholes
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Thomas Edison

Multiple Choice

Who invented the telephone?

• Thomas Edison
• Nikola Tesla
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Graham Bell

Open Ended

How did the typewriter and the telephone change office work and create jobs for women?

3-4 complete sentences

Open Ended

How did industrialization change the workforce?

2-3 complete sentences

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, add more information to that oval of the graphic organizer.

Consider the alternatives for Homesteaders