Industry and Railroads
Rise of Big Business
Factors Behind American Economic Growth
Transportation
Communication
100

In the 1850s THIS PROCESS made the production of steel faster and cheaper.

What is the Bessemer process?

100

1877

What is Phonography?

100

capitalism encourages individuals initiative.

  • (a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.)

What is "Laissez-faire"

100

The biggest customers for steel

What were the railroads?

100
Long and short signals that stood for letters of the alphabet were transmitted across electrical wires by way of THIS.
What is a telegraph?
200

Between 1865 and 1890 this transportation system expanded by a multiple of five.

What were the railroads?

200
Oil refining became "standard" under THIS entrepreneur.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
200

use of new sources of power (steam); mass production; factory system

What is Legacy if first Industrial revolution?

200
Colton Seih's favorite automobile, first invented by the Wright Brothers.
What is the airplane?
200
In 1837, this "code" named for its inventor became the new wave of technology.
What is Morse Code?
300

This caused the growth of industries, such as coal, iron, railroads and textiles

What is First Industrial Revolution?

300

By 1899, HE dominated the steel industry in the United States.

Who is Andrew Carnegie?

300

tariffs, Banking Act, Pacific Railroad Act, Homestead act

What is Stimulus of the Civil War?

300
Automobiles were revolutionized with the invention of THIS?
What is the internal combustion engine?
300

With a "ring" to his name, THIS inventor made it possible to transmit the human voice through an electrical wire by way of the telephone.

Who is Alexander Graham Bell?

400

Historians have labeled the years from _____-____+ as the period of the

When is 1870-1914?

400

Henry Flagler 

What are Florida East Coast rail road?

400

This protected American manufactured goods

What is Tariffs

400

Stephenson is credited with this, Fulton is credited with this, and the Wright brothers are credited with this.

What are the train, the steamboat and the airplane?


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400

Who created hair care products especially for African-American women

Who is Madame "CJ" Walker

500

This witnessed the expansion of electricity, petroleum and steel.

What is Second Industrial Revolution?

500

Cyrus Filed

What is Transatlantic Cables?

500

He wrote "The Jungle"

Who is Upton Sinclair?

500

In what Year did Wilbur and Orville Wright invent airplanes 

When is 1903

500

This inventor came up with a new process for making carbon filament in lightbulbs

Who is Lewis howard Latimer


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