1. Using a piece of notebook paper, set up the top portion similar to this. The big ideas and details will go below, on the back, and on any other papers you need.

2. Government policies helped business grow, new technology allowed railroads and cities to expand, and new sources of energy supplied industry needs.

3. What inventions do you consider to be the most important to modern life?

4. Standard 8.12.1: Trace patterns of agricultural and industrial development as they relate to climate, use of natural recourses, markets, and trade and locate some development on a map. Standard 8.12.3: Explain how states and the federal government encouraged business expansion through tariffs, banking, land grants, and subsidies. Standard 8.12.9: Name the significant inventors and their inventions and identify how they improved the quality of life (Edison, Bell, Wright).

5. consolidate rebate patent Thomas Edison Alexander Graham Bell Henry Ford assembly line Wilbur & Orville Wright

6. INDEPENDENT WORK 1.Read pages 482-487 in the History textbook. 2.Use what you have learned all year to read, find the big idea, and write details for each section.

7. MI CONNECTION  Fold a piece of white paper into four sections.  Label the boxes with…  Thomas Edison  Alexander Graham Bell  Henry Ford  Wilbur & Orville Wright  Write the invention and date on the bottom of the box.  Draw a picture of the invention in the middle of the box.