Vocabulary
People
Invention
Railroads
100
What was a license that gave and invented the exclusive right to make, use, or sell an invention for a set period of time?
What is patent
100
Who helped make another new source of energy, electric power widely available?
Who is Thomas A. Edison
100
What did Thomas A. Edison invent?
What is the light bulb
100
What could railroads carry by 1870?
What is goods and people
200
What is productivity
What is the amount of goods and services created in a given period of time.
200
Who is Samuel F. B. Morse?
Who is the inventor of the telegraph and morse code
200
Who was the telephone invented by?
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
200
What did railroads lead to the development of?
What is small towns
300
What is the transcontinental railroad?
What is a railway extending from coast to coast.
300
Who patented the "talking telegraph"?
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
300
Who invented the telegraph?
Who is Samuel F. B. Morse
300
Why was scheduling for trains so difficult?
What is different times set in different states
400
What is a market structure which is dominated by only a few large profitable firms?
What is oligopoly
400
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Who is the guy who formed the Standard Oil Company
400
Who developed more effective air brakes?
Who is George Westinghouse
400
What process made it much easier and cheaper to remove the impurities from steel?
What is The Bessemer Process
500
What is a method of industrial control which involves the bringing together of many firms in the same business?
What is horizontal consolidation
500
Who formed the Standard Oil Company?
Who is John D. Rockefeller
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