FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT US CH6

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FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT US CH6

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Question 1: Who invented the typewriter?

Answer:

Christopher Sholes

Question 2: What new uses for steel were developed at this time?

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Steel railroad tracks, barbed wire, farm machines, and taller buildings Question 3: By World War I, membership in the American Federation of Labor was around...

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two million Question 4: Recognizing how important railroads were for settling the West, the government made large ________ to the rail road companies.

Answer:

land grants and loans

Question 5: the Central Pacific Rail Road employed thousands of ___(1)___ immigrants, while numerous ___(2)___ immigrants worked for the Union Pacific Railroad.

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1) Chinese 2) Irish Question 6: A corporation that did nothing but buy out the stocks of other companies was known as a...

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holding company Question 7: Who introduced an efficient means of retrieving oil from beneath the earth's surface?

Answer:

Edwin L. Drake

Question 8: The type of cost hardest for business owners to control was...

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labor Question 9: To improve their labor conditions, many industrial workers formed...

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unions Question 10: By the end of the 19th century, a quarter of the nation's railroads had been taken over by __.

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financial companies Question 11: Who developed an efficient technique for transforming iron into steel?

Answer:

Henry Bessemer

Question 12: Various measures enacted to regulate railroads were known as ___.

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Granger Laws Question 13: Who perfected the incandescent light bulb at his research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey?

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Thomas Alva Edison Question 14: Under railroad time, the United States was divided into ___ time zones.

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four Question 15: Who developed an entire system for producing and distributing electrical power and organized power plants around the nation?

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Thomas Alva Edison Question 16: In what ways did the railroad companies use their power to hurt farmers?

Answer:

selling government land to businesses instead of farmers, entering agreements for fixed prices, and charging different rates for different customers

Question 17: Which resources played crucial roles in industrialization?

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Oil,coal, and iron

Question 18: How did the Bessemer process allow better use of iron ore?

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Made the process of turning iron ore into steel quicker and more efficient Question 19: A violent incident that turned much of the public against the labor movement was know as the...

Answer:

Haymarket Affair

Question 20: The Great Strike of 1887 involved workers for some of the nation's...

Answer:

railroad companies

Question 21: Who invented the telephone?

Answer:

Alexander Graham Bell Question 22: Why didn't the decision in the Munn v. Illinois case succeed in checking the power of the railroads?

Answer:

• years later, the Supreme Court ruled that a state could not set rates on interstate commerce

Question 23: John

• Rockefeller became a magnate of the..

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American oil industry