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Natural Resources

100

Before finding the abundance of natural resources like steel and oil, the United States economy was dominated by?

Agriculture

200

In 1859, Edwin Drake used the steam engine to drill for which natural resource?

Oil

300

This byproduct of the oil refining process was originally thrown away before the invention of automobiles.

Gasoline

400

Removing this element from Iron Ore produces steel.

Carbon

500

This process, created by a man named Henry, was manufactured to produce 90% of the nation's steel.

Bessemer Process

Railroad System

100

The massive production of this metal helped expand railroads across the country.

Steel

200

These immigrants were hired to work on the railroads in extremely harsh conditions. 

Chinese Immigrants

300

The connection of railroad tracks from East to West was called the:

Transcontinental Railroad

400

Due to the sun rising at different times in the United States, Professor Charles Dowd introduced the idea of 

24-Hour Time Zones

500

The first Transcontinental Railroad met in a city called Promontory, which is located in what US state?

Utah

Key Inventions

100

Electricity was invented in 1876 by:

Thomas Edison

200

In 1867, Christopher Sholes invented this old-school computer.

Typewriter

300

Alexander Graham Bell invented this new form of communication.

Telephone

400

Before the development of electricity, power plants had to be close to what?

Rivers

500

After the inventions of the typewriter and telephone, who saw the biggest increase in office employment? 

Women

Big Business

100

This man dominated the STEEL industry in the late 19th Century.

Andrew Carnegie

200

This man dominated the OIL industry in the late 19th Century.

John D. Rockefeller

300

Andrew Carnegie came to the United States when he was 12 years old. Where was he born?

Scotland

400

Rockefeller became one of the richest men in history by merging with competing companies on:

Trust agreements

500

When a market is controlled by few big businesses instead of many small businesses, it is called a:

Monopoly