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One way my life connects with the Industrial Revolution is how the inventions are still used today. Light bulb, telephone, etc. Its amazing that things invented so long ago are still in use today and still are used for the same reason that they were in invented for.

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I did not know that Cleveland was at the top of the standard oil companies. That is something I learned that I didn't know before and I found it very interesting.

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Specialization is a new vocab word that I learned. It means that a state specializes in a specific thing. Pittsburgh (steel), and Ohio (oil).

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The main idea of the Industrial Revolution. The U.S. shifted from rural to urban and manual labor decreased. Since new machines were being invented, companies no longer needed people to do work that machines could already do. Inventions of these new machines is what led to the whole revolution.

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Railroads in the industrial revolution made transporting crops for farmers easier. The railroad companies had a feud with the farmers as the farmers were taking advantage of them for all the good reasons. Railroads were also the reason why time zones were invented. Accidents kept happening and as a result they invented the different time zones.

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She was an advocate to end child labor. Mary was tired of factories putting kids through terrible working conditions and the work that was too much for their age. She stood up to it and made a change. That is why they call her mother.

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Thomas Edison is credited with creating the light bulb and is one of the greatest inventors in American history. His laboratory was in Menlo Park, New Jersey. He is said to have over 1,000 patents. He was a huge impact during the Industrial Revolution because he made an easier way to have electricity and light in homes.