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one way my life connects to the past is travel. the train for example minimized travel. they made it easier to get places faster like how we use them today. another thing is steel. today we use stainless steel spoons. we would not be able to do that without the Bessemer process.

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the most interesting the i learned was how the government wasn't involved with businesses at all. this is interesting to me because businesses had no restrictions. for example how much they could charge customers. another thing is how they could run their business.

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one vocab i learned is Gold-bug. a Gold bug is somebody who only believes in using gold for currency instead of silver. a gold-bug from the industrial revolution is William McKinley. the east also supported using gold.

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William J. Bryan also ran for president during the Industrial Revolution. he was the one that obviously didn't win against McKinley. he had the support of the west when he ran. he was a silverite and supported the populist party.

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William McKinley ran for president around the time of the Industrial revolution. he was from our home state Ohio Specifically canton Ohio. he was a gold bug and ended up winning the election against William J. Bryan

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Steel also played a big part in the industrial revolution before steel there was iron. iron was not a good material to use for building buildings. iron was known for rusting which wouldn't be good for sky scrapers. because of steel we were able to make so much. we were able to make skyscrapers because we wouldn't have to worry about rust

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the transcontinental played a big part in the industrial revolution. Because of the railroad we were able to expand westward. we were also able to starting shipping goods from east to west. it was also good for farmers because they could ship their crops across the U.S