HIS 10/HIS 11 Identifications Workshop Identification Index Card Historical Significance Who/What? Where? When? Context Most Important Point

Start with the Source

Who When Where

Context... “What is it?” Context A Problem whose Solution is the Identification A Document or Event that is the Inspiration for the Identification A Particular Event or Series of Events that Influenced the Identification

Context... “What is it?” “As late as 1850 Britain led the world in producing iron, turning out some 2.5 million tons a year, but only 60,000 of those tons were steel. Steel was expensive to make because of the difficulty of removing all the contaminants contained in iron ore. An American, William Kelly ( ), solved this industrial dilemma...”

What’s Really “Most Important”? “... Solved this industrial dilemma... by using a blast of air to ‘decarburize’ molten iron, converting it to steel quickly and cheaply. The Englishman Sir Henry Bessemer ( ),... bought out Kelly’s patent and further developed the process that still bears his name.”

Historical Significance How did Things Change as a result of the Identification? What was the Effect of the Identification?

Historical Significance “... Steel became the basic commodity for the construction of railroads, ships, bridges, skyscrapers, and weapons. “Modern skyscrapers depend on the cheap production of steel made possible by The Bessemer converter.”

Keeping an Eye Out for Context & Significance Some Identifications Require You to Connect Ideas from Different Paragraphs in a Chapter From: page 19 From: page 27