Thursday, January 5, 2017

Classwork 1/5/17 - Inventions

Hello, APUSH'ers:

Here is your assignment for today, 1/5/17.  Please complete all work on looseleaf, to be handed in BEOP.

1.  Carefully study each of the inventions in the following handout.

2.  Based on the descriptions of the inventions, and your knowledge of history, for each of the inventions given, answer the following...

  • Identify the purpose of the invention 
  • Analyze the positive, and negative effects of the invention.  
3. After you have completed exercise 2, please create a response to the following writing prompt; your answer should be in the form of a short paragraph.  You may utilize the documents to assist you: 
  • Assess the effect of technological development on America's industrial growth
4. Complete the following statement: 
  • Based on the information from today's lesson, I believe the invention which had the greatest impact on the nation was the____________________.  I believe this invention had the greatest impact on the nation, because __________________________.  

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