Well, first week done and it has been a pleasure to get to know all of you. June is right around the corner although it seems pretty far off right now. We have pushed hard to learn the states and capitols and if you still haven't done well on either quiz you can always make them up next week. You also have turned in a U.S. Physical Map where you have located natural geographic features in the U.S.
Today we started our learning in the theme of Industrialization. You should have completed the reading assignment for today in which you must read pages 436-440 and summarize the individual sections. This section is about the beginnings of Industrialization and important technology. Today you received the 1st Industrialization notebook packet and we worked on handouts #5 and #6. On handout #5 we discussed the definition of "revolution" which is major change in society and also "industrialization" which is a turn to manufacturing of making things. The Industrial Revolution in America was a turn to manufacturing in our country. Also on handout #5, we discussed three areas of specific change in America: 1) subsistence farming to mass production growing; 2) single craftsmen/artisans to the factory system; and 3) slow, unreliable transportation to the ability to move goods quickly.
On handout #6 we used our textbooks to find the inventors of the important industrial inventions listed on #6. We will do more with these inventions on Monday.
Bonus Points opportunity (25pts) - Give me another important industrial invention (and inventor) that is NOT described in either textbook.
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