Impact of Railroads
Impact of Railroads II
Identify
Describe
Random
100
They supported big business
What is the government
100
The largest steel plant in the U.S.
What is Carnegie Steel Homestead Works
100
Owned standard oil company
What is John D. Rocefeller
100
Established the world's first research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey
Who is Thomas Edison
100
allowed manufacturers to locate their plants wherever they wanted.
What is electricity
200
Used steam engine to drill for oil
What is Edwin L. Drake
200
Donated 90% of wealth to arts and learning
What is a Philanthropist
200
Were not legal mergers
What is Trusts
200
Invented the telephone
Who is Alexander G. Bell & Thomas Watson
200
Incorporated new machinery and techniques such as accounting systems that enabled him to track precise costs.
Who is Andrew Carnegie
300
Created a cheap and efficient way to produce steel
What is the Bessemer process
300
Entered steel business in 1873
Who is Andrew Carnegie
300
Used a trust to gain total control of the oil industry in America
What is John D. Rockefeller
300
The most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s
What is the phonograph
300
Bought out suppliers in order to control the raw materials and transportation systems.
What is vertical integration
400
Became the biggest industry in need of steel
What is Railroad
400
Concerned that expanding corporations would stifle free competition
What is the government
400
Credited as inventing the first motion picture camera in 1895
Who is Louis Lumiere
400
Sold his company in 1901 and produced by far the largest portion of the nation's steel
Who is J.P. Morgan
500
First built in the United States in 1859
What is an oil well
500
Manufactured more steel than all factories in Great Britain
What is Carnegie Steel Company
500
The act made it illegal to to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other companies
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act
500
First modern film created in 1903
What is the Great Train Robbery
500
Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads met at Promontory, Utah on May 10, 1869
What is Transcontinental railroads
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