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Essential Questions:
How was it built?
1) transcontinental
2) subsidies
3) immigrants
Pacific Railroad Act 1862:
1) Central Pacific
Company
2) Union Pacific Company
Essential Questions:
How did the railroads impact the American economy? What were some of the early railroad improvements?
1) Gauge
2) Network
3) Janney car couplers
4) Pullman sleeping Car
5) Raw materials
6) Produce
7) Time zones
8) Consolidation
9) Railroad Baron
10) Cornelius Vanderbilt
US Railroad Track
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Essential Questions:
How did innovations in communications change society? How did inventions improve people's lives?
1) Samuel Morse
2) telegraph
3)Morse Code
4) Alexander Graham Bell
5) Telephone
6) Thomas Edison
7) Light Bulb
8) Henry Ford
9) Assembly Line
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AT&T � Following Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone in 1876, he and his financial backers, Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders, formed the Bell Telephone Company in 1877. AT&T was incorporated in 1885 as a subsidiary of Bell, to build and operate the first long-distance telephone network. In 1899, AT&T bought Bell's assets and became the parent company of the entire Bell system.
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Thomas Edison
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Key Vocabulary Words
Key Vodcab Words
Assembly Line
Assembly line - Factory method in which work moves past stationary workers who perform a single task.
Specialization
Specialization -The limiting of one’s study or work to one particular area, or a particular area of knowledge.
Mass Production
Mass Production - Factory production of goods in large quantities.
In 1896, Ford built his first automobile, the Ford Quadricycle. This was a light metal frame fitted with four bicycle wheels and powered by a two-cylinder, four-horsepower gasoline engine).
- Did not go into production
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Assembly line =
Efficiency UP
Cost Down
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