Main Points
Railroads helped ship goods across the ___, while steamboats shipped goods across the ___.
1. Nation/United States
2. Atlantic Ocean
Who is the wealthiest man to come from the United States?
Andrew Carnegie
There was a huge need for __ during the early 1800s to transport goods across the United States.
railroads
Industralization caused __ to make air much dirtier.
pollution
The name of the handheld invention for removing facial hair
Razor
Land was purchased by the government to encourage ___.
railroad construction
Who are the two main billionares from the Industrial Revolution?
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller
These allowed goods to be shipped overseas.
Steamboats
The government enforced the U.S. to ___ the native Americans during Westward Expansion.
"remove"
Name of the new brakes invented for railroads:
Air brakes
Where did a growing supply of labor workers come from?
Europe
How much is Carnegie's fortune worth today?
310 billion dollars
Thanks to the telegraph, communciation went from __ to ___ to ___.
local, national, international
True or False: Carnegie and Rockefeller's working conidtions were fair and safe for child and adults.
FALSE
Thomas Edison invented the ___ and goes down in American history as one of the most famous.
lightbulb
This enforcement on products protected the U.S. from foreign competition
Tariffs/taxes
Rockefeller is famous for the __ industry, while Carnegie is famous for the __ industry.
1. oil
2. steel
Remember the photos? Which coastline in the United States had the most railroads?
The East Coast
Critical thinking: Civilization in the United States during the Industrial Revolution brought new diseases and contaminations.
TRUE
What Brother's invented the airplane and in what American state?
The Wright Brothers, North Carolina
Name the five main points of the Industrial Revolution:
1. Economic Growth
2. Transporting Products
3. Government Involvement
4. Interconnected Growth
5. Carnegie and Rockefeller
Name two negatives about working under Carnegie and Rockefeller:
1. long, harsh conditions
2. ran companies like a dictatorship
These were attached to railroad paths to carry communication signal.
telegraph lines
People's lives now revolved around the ___, not the ___.
1. clock
2. sun
What two major home appliances were invented due to the electric generator?
Refridgerator and the washing machine