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  • Edwin Drake
    Had the idea that Oil was in the ground. Despite what people said, he dug and found Oil and hit it rich.
  • Which of the following people created the Standard Oil Monopoly?
    John D. Rockefeller
  • One of Thomas Edison’s major accomplishments was...
    helping to create the lightbulb and making electricity more widely available.
  • A monopoly is...
    one company that controls an industry.
  • Choose one invention from the list below. Who invented it? What was the year? How did it change the United States?
    Answers vary
  • George Westinghouse
    Inventor of the Transformer that would make sending electricity easier, faster, and cheaper. Also invented the Air Brakes, which made railroads safer.
  • A corporation was..
    a type of business in which people buy stock in a company.
  • The assembly line had which of the following effects?
    It had people repeat the same one job all day.
  • The Knights of Labor and The American Federation of Labor are most associated with...
    Unions
  • What were the three factors of production?
    Labor, Capital, and Land.
  • Who created the Model T?
    Henry Ford
  • Before the year 1880, railroad tracks were made of...
    iron.
  • Workers went on strike to protest wage cuts. The plant closed, but another union refused to work on Pullman cars. Courts ordered workers back to work and federal troops forced workers to work and many were jailed. This was the...
    Pullman strike of 1894.
  • Alexander Graham Bell
    Inventor of the telephone. He realized voice wavelengths could be sent by electricity.
  • Andrew Carnegie established what?
    A large scale steel production.
  • What is a standard gauge?
    A standard width for railroad tracks.
  • Samuel Morse
    Invented a machine that sent and received messages and created Morse Code.
  • What manufacturing process is illustrated in the photograph? What at least a paragraph explaining the advantages of manufacturing products this way?
    Assembly Line made production faster
  • The 1892 Homestead Strike was..
    managers at Andrew Carnegie’s steel plant cut people’s wages (money) to weaken the union.
  • Helped Improve Railroads
    Air Brakes, The Pullman Sleeping Car, Janney Car Couplers, and Refrigerator cars made it easier and safer to transport goods and people.
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