Rail or road?
STEEL!!!
Planing, Building, and Inventing
The Oil Rush
Dates and Places
100
This was the fastest was to travel.
What is Railroad?
100
This metal was used to make trains, Skyscrapers, and many other products.
What is Steel
100
Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller were this kind of businessman.
What is an entrepreneur
100
This product was used for lantern fuel.
What is kerosene
100
The place that finished the transcontinental railroad.
What is Promontory point?
200
A railroad from sea to sea.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
200
These buildings were very tall and built with steel
What is a skyscraper
200
This person sets up and runs a business.
What is an entrepreneur
200
This was used to make kerosene
What is oil
200
The Central and Union Pacific met in this year at promontory point.
What is 1869?
300
These two companies were building the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is Central and Union Pacific?
300
These tall machines lift beams to help build skyscrapers
What is cranes
300
An economic system in which people are free to start there own businesses
What is free enterprise
300
This was to risky so John D Rockefeller controlled the oil business by refining it.
What is drilling for oil
300
In 1872 this man visited Britain and found a new way to make steel.
What is Andrew Carnegie?
400
These people had low pay, bad jobs, and bad hours.
What is immigrant workers.
400
This entrepreneur became a master of steel making. He could make it faster, stronger and with less money than many other steel makers at that time.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
400
This company's success made other companies fall
What is Standard Oil
400
After the invention of the engine refineries stated producing this product
What is gasoline
400
This man made his first oil refinery in Cleveland.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
500
This gold memorial was driven at promontory point
What is the last spike
500
These machines carried materials to the steel mills and factories
What is a train
500
Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker were a group of men who invested in the transcontinental railroad.
Who is the big four?
500
John D. Rockefeller became a billionaire on refining oil with this company.
What is Standard Oil?
500
John D. Rockefeller controlled the oil industry with his kerosene/ petroleum company by 1882. (He used this industry)
What is oil refining?
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