Vocabulary
A railroad that linked the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts
Transcontinental Railroad
Black Gold
Oil
This person was the most prolific inventor of the Second Industrial Revolution
Thomas Edison
The home of automobile manufacturing
Detroit, MI
The most reliable form of transportation in the 19th century
Inventor of the light bulb
Thomas Edison
This person was the first to use a steam drill to strike oil in 1859
Edwin L. Drake
These new inventions gave people the ability to socialize at night
Electric street lamps
This women invented a machine that attached soles of shoes to the top of the shoe
Jan Ernst Matzeliger
Connecting of the union pacific and central pacific railways
a cheap and efficient process for making steel, developed around 1850.
Bessemer Process
A major steel producing city in the United States
Pittsburgh
Daily Double!
To be very productive
Prolific
This invention increased the speed at which books and print products could be made
the type writer
The work conditions for railroad workers was considered to be _____?
appalling
Inventor of the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Mr. Belsom's middle name
Anthony
Opened in 1882, this was the first of its kind in the United States.
power plant
Women led this job profession by 1910
Clerical work
These four zones were created to alleviate the timekeeping issue in the United States
Time Zones
Inventor of the Carbon filament
Lewis H. Latimer
This bridge was built from using steel and was the first of many to be built in a major U.S. City
Brooklyn Bridge
This man helped Alexander Graham Bell invent the telephone
Thomas Watson
By 1920 half of the _______ was composed of _____
manufacturing workforce and immigrants
The western most point of the transcontinental railroad
Sacramento