1. Unit 2 Getting Down to Business How did the rise of big businesses help grow and shape America?

2. Identify factors that supported the industrial development of the U.S.

3. Natural Resources Having resources available, like coal and iron, allowed for more advancements in factories

4. Transportation Networks 0 Railroads were SUPER important! They: 0 Connected farms to cities. 0 That provided a way for farmers to sell their crops. 0 Brought in the natural resources needed by factories. 0 That includes raw materials such as wood, coal, copper, and iron ore. 0 Carried the products made in factories all over the country.

5. Access to Energy Building industrial areas near natural resources allowed factories to have an easy way to power them

6. Inventions New “technology” allowed factories to produce things better and faster than before.

7. Workers The arrival of millions of new immigrants caused cities to expand

8. Financial Resources Big businesses had big money and that allowed industries to grow

9. Identify contributions of key inventors and the effects of their inventions (on the BACK of your notes)

10. Alexander Graham Bell Inventor of the telephone

11. Thomas Edison Inventor of the phonograph and electric light bulb

12. The Wright Brothers (add to the margin of your notes!) Inventors of the airplane http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMhdksPFhCM&feature=related#

13. Identify the contributions of key individuals to the growth of industrial America

14. Cornelius Vanderbilt 0 Business: shipping and railroads 0 Company: New York Central Railroad 0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Gq-eKO6SQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Gq-eKO6SQ

15. Andrew Carnegie 0 Business: Steel making 0 Company: Carnegie Steel Company 0 http://www.history.com/topics/andrew-carnegie/videos/the-men-who-built-america- andrew-carnegie http://www.history.com/topics/andrew-carnegie/videos/the-men-who-built-america- andrew-carnegie

16. John D. Rockefeller 0 Business: Oil Refining 0 Company: Standard Oil Company

17. Henry Ford 0 Business: Automobiles 0 Company: Ford Motor Company 0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymEa24r0xXk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymEa24r0xXk

18. J.P. Morgan 0 Business: Banking and investing