Immediately after the Civil War, the United States was still primarily this type of industry.
What is agriculture?
100
He invented the light bulb.
Who was Thomas Edison?
100
Before the transcontinental railroad was built, Americans who wanted to travel between the east and west coasts were forced to use one of these undesirable options.
What is travel by horse & wagon, or by sea around the southern tip of South America?
100
The place where the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific met along the Transcontinental Railroad was known as this.
What is Golden Spike?
100
When a company buys out all of the competition and has complete control of the market, it is known as this.
What is a monopoly?
200
Crude oil that was pulled from the ground was separated into these two products.
What are kerosene and gasoline?
200
Christopher Sholes invented this, which made office work more efficient and created new jobs for women.
What is the typewriter?
200
The railroad that connected the country, built between Omaha, Nebraska and San Francisco, California, was known as this.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
200
One of the major problems of building the Transcontinental Railroad was due to the fact that Railroad companies were doing this to the federal government.
What is scamming/stealing money?
200
This is the reason why a monopoly is bad for consumers.
What is because without competition, they can raise prices to very high levels?
300
The creation of steel led to a major expansion of industry. This was one primary use of steel in the late 1800's.
What are railroads, bridges or buildings?
300
Along with Thomas Watson, he is the inventor of the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
300
The hard work of the Transcontinental Railroad was done largely by one of these groups of people.
Who are immigrants from China or Ireland, or Civil War veterans?
300
This is the primary reason that the Central Pacific railroad company covered fewer miles coming west to east than did the Union Pacific Railroad.
What are the Sierra Nevada Mountain?
300
When a company buys out its competition, it is known as this.
What is horizontal integration?
400
The Bessemer Process did this.
What is remove the carbon from the iron to make steel?
400
While he didn't invent electricity, in addition to the light bulb, Thomas Edison is know for coming up with this with regards to electricity.
What is coming up with a system to produce and distribute electricity?
400
In order to make sure everyone was on a similar time schedule, these were developed by Professor C.F. Dowd in 1869.
What are time zones?
400
The U.S. Government did not have enough money to pay the railroad companies, so they did this instead.
What is give them the land on either side of the railroad for them to use or sell off at a profit?
400
When a company buys out its suppliers, it is known as this.
What is vertical integration?
500
This was the name of the process used where carbon was burned off from iron, creating steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
500
Edwin Drake famously was the first to use this to get oil from the ground.
What is a steam engine?
500
Sleeper railroad cars, like the one shown here, were named for this man who manufactured them at his factory.
What are Pullman cars?
500
Following years of corruption and scamming of money, the Interstate Commerce Act was passed putting who this group in charge of the railroad industry.
What is the Federal Government (or the Interstate Commerce Commission)?
500
This act was passed by Congress in 1890 making it illegal to form a monopoly.