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Railroads
Telegraph
Automobiles
Selling Goods
Telephones
100
Civil war
What is the name of the war that trains carried troops and supplies to?
100
Samuel Morse
Who invented the telegraph?
100
Henry Ford
Who made automobiles?
100
By mail
What was one method Merchants could sell goods?
100
Alexander Graham Bell
Who invented the telephone?
200
30,000
What is the number of miles of train track in 1860?
200
1844
When was the telegraph invented?
200
1903
In what year did Henry Ford establish his own auto-making company in Detroit?
200
By picking it up at post offices
Before 1863, how did people get their mail?
200
1876
In what year was the telephone invented?
300
John Henry and Ive Been Working On The Railroad
What is the name of the songs workers would sing while building the railroads?
300
Western Union Telegraph Company
What was the name of the company that managed mostly all of the telegraph lines?
300
America's first mass production car made by the Ford Motor Company
What is model T?
300
By delivering it to people's homes
After 1863, how did people get their mail?
300
1877
when was the Bell Telephone Company formed?
400
The practice of combining separate companies
What is consolidation?
400
Telegrams
What offered almost instant communication?
400
A new, less expensive way to manufacture cars
What is assembly line?
400
Chain stores
What kind of store started yo grow rapidly?
400
Scotland
Where was Bell originally from?
500
Worked
What is labored?
500
Europe
The telegraph linked the United States and?
500
The production of large quantities using machinery and often and assembly line.
What is mass production?
500
F.W. Woolworth's
What chain store specialized in the sale of everyday household and personal items at bargain prices?
500
By the 1890's
When were hundreds of thousands of phones sold?