Chapter 14, sec.1, guided reading

Factor 1: Abundant Natural Resources

1. Which resources pl ayes critical roles in industrialization?
The resources that played a critical role in industrialization were the wealth of natural resources, the governments support for business, and the growing urban population which provided businesses cheap labor and markets for new products.

2. How did Edwin L. Drake help industry to acquire larger quantities of oil?
Edwin L. Drake helped the industry acquire larger amounts of oil by creating a steam engine that drills oil from the earths surface, which made the use of oil more practical.

3. How did the Bessemer process allow better use of iron ore?
The Bessemer process allowed better use of iron ore by making it easier for iron to be turned into steel. The process took molten iron and injected air into it turning it into steel.

4. What new uses for steel were developed at this time?
The new uses for steel that were developed was track for trains, barbed wire, farm machines, the Brooklyn Bridge, and skyscrapers

Factor 2: Increasing Number of Inventions

5. How did Thomas Alva Edison contribute to this development?
Thomas Edion contributed to the development by establishing the worlds first resarch laboratory, he perfected the incandescent light bulb, and he envented a entire system that producec and distributed electrical power.

6. How did George Westinghouse contribute to it?
George Westinghouse countributed by working with Edison and making electricity less expensive and safer.

7. How did Christopher Sholes contribute?
Chistopher Sholes contributed by inventing the typewriter.

8. How did Alexander Graham Bell contribute?
Alexander Grahm Bell contributed by inventing the telphone.


Factor 3: Expanding Urban Population
Provided markets for new inventions and industrialgoods
Provided a ready supply of labor for industry