1. What natural resources were key to U.S. industrialization? How did inventions in the period effect business and social life? Things you will learn:

2. The Age of Railroads

4. Time Zones

5. Industry in Gilded Age Oil: used for lamps, machinery Begin to use steam drill by Edwin Drake to get out of ground Drill in KY, OH, IL, IN Coal: used for fires to power steam engines on trains, fires to make steel, heat homes Mined in WV, PA, OH, IN, IL Natural Resources Iron Ore: used to make steel use coal fires to burn carbon out and make steel

7. Steel: William Kelly & Bessemer Process uses: RRs, barbed wire, farm machinery, bridges, skyscrapers

9. Inventions Electricity: Thomas Edison Perfected light bulb Power grid Uses: Factories streetcars appliances

10. Inventions Typewriter: Christopher Sholes/ James Densmore Sped up / standardized communication Telephones: Alex Graham Bell Speeded communication / rate of business Creates clerical jobs for white single women