Gilded Age-Industrialization & Labor Unions

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100

What features developed on Rail Cars after people began to use Railroads for transportation?

George Westinghouse invented the air brake

Pullman sleeping care developed

200

How many time zones did C.F. Dowd propose world wide?

24 

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100

How many time zones did C.F. Dowd propose for the United States?

4

200

Name 3 other industries that Railroad transportation increased demand for?

-coal

-iron

-steel

-lumber

-glass

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100

What is the railroad called that connected the eastern coast of the United States to the west coast?

Transcontinental RR

200

Which minorities faced hardships working on the Railroads? Name 2

Chinese and Irish

Page 3

100

Which natural resources were discovered that came in high demand as soon as they were invented?

Petroleum 

Coal

200

Kerosene can be distilled from which natural resources?

Coal 

Petroleum

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100

Which process made the development of Steel uniformed and much stronger?

The Bessemer Process

200

What were two 2 negative by products that Industrialization affected nature?

air pollutants

water pollutants