Expansion of Industry

All Periods: Please read 14-1 in your textbook (Don't worry, it is a short section) and answer the question below in a paragraph or two. Make sure you use completed sentences. Please post it on your blog no later than 10 a.m. Monday. Title: Expansion of Industry Labels: Industrial_Age, Inventions

Question:

What were the three major factors that contributed to the immense technological boom that took place in the United States after the Civil War? Explain how two of these factors helped to bring about this technological boom.

Three factors that contributed to the technological boom after the Civil War were; The discovery of oil, the typewriter, and the telephone. The discovery of oil was very important because it created a huge industry able to produce many different forms of oil. For instance kerosene, for lighting, and gasoline, for the newly developed automobiles. With this also, the success of the automobile industries was beginning to bloom. Another factor is the development of the telephone. With this, women had more job opportunites. With companies not having to send a letter every time they needed to be in contact with someone, the telephone contributed to the boom by making the work of many industries much easier.