General Knowledge
The assembly line and mass-production were used after the war to do this.
What is to manufacture industrial goods?
The first light bulb was considered to be.
What is the most influential invention of The Gilded Age?
Construction of skyscrapers, longer bridges, stronger railroads, and heavier machinery were led by this material.
What is steel?
Known as the "Wizard of Menlo Park," one of Nikola Tesla's rivals and considered to be one of the greatest inventors of the 1800s.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Rockefeller's company lowered costs as well as improved the quality of its oil products.
What is Standard Oil?
Iron, steel, and railroads were three industrial goods that were needed for this reason.
What is to rebuild our nation after the war and build America's new cities.?
The railroad was considered to be.
What is America's first "Big Business"?
Steel mills converted to this to produce the highest quality steel at the lowest price.
What is the Bessemer process?
His ruthless buy out tactics dominated the oil industry during The Gilded Age.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
The percentage of oil that Standard Oil sold to America in 1879.
What is 90%?
These inventions cash registers, typewriters, and adding machines sparked this.
What is the wave of the industrial revolution?
Completed in 1869, this 1,912-mile line significantly reduced travel time from the East to the West.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This country outproduced ALL of Great Britain's steel factory production during The Gilded Age.
What is the United States?
During the Gilded Age, this industrialist dominated the iron and steel industry.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
Rockefeller might have taken advantage of his workers, and used his money to influence government, he still donated $500 million to this charity named.
What is the Rockefeller Foundation?
Marconi's wireless transmitter & Bell's telephone sparked a revolution with.
What is communication?
R.O.S.E. stands for the major industries that fueled the American industrial revolution.
What are Railroads, Oil, Steel, and Electricity?
The American Dream of rising from a poor immigrant to one of the richest men in the world epitomizes this person.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This tycoon made his fortune via railroad construction.
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?
The industry that J.P. Morgan bailed out in times of trouble.
What is the railroad industry?
The Bessemer Process was a means to do this.
What is a way to produce stronger, lighter steel?
4 great trunk lines did the following.
What is connect Eastern railroads to the West?
Despite not paying employees much, and not allowing unions in his factories, Andrew Carnegie was still this, giving money to NYC libraries, colleges, and performing arts.
What is a philanthropist?
American finance during The Gilded Age was dominated by this person.
Who was J.P. Morgan/
The American governments Laissez-faire policy towards big business and its lack of regulation allowed businesses to become.
What is powerful and exploitive?