The Rise of
Industry
Key Inventions & Inventors
Business & Economic Systems
Railroads & Expansion
Monopolies & Regulation
100

The main transformation during the First Industrial Revolution

What is the introduction of factories and machinery?

100

Thomas Edison's invention that changed how people lived.

What is the light bulb?

100

Definition of a "market economy."

What is an economy where businesses compete freely?

100

How the Transcontinental Railroad impacted the United States.

What is it connected the East and West coasts, making travel and shipping faster and cheaper?

100

The businessman known for creating an oil monopoly.

Who is John D. Rockefeller?

200

Coal's importance during the Industrial Revolution

What is it powered railroads and factories?

200

How the invention of the telegraph affected communication.

What is it allowed for instant communication over long distances?

200

The meaning of laissez-faire.

What is letting businesses run without government interference?

200

Why railroads were essential for industrial growth.

What is they provided fast transportation of raw materials to factories and goods to markets?

200

Why monopolies were seen as a problem.

What is they eliminated competition?

300

How the Civil War boosted industrial growth.

What is it increased demand for weapons and transportation?

300

The safety device invented by Garrett Morgan.

What is the gas mask?

300

How the Morrill Tariff helped American businesses.

What is it raised tariffs to protect local industries?

300

The specific area of Florida Henry Flagler helped transform.

What is St. Augustine and the northeastern region?

300

The law that tried to stop monopolies in 1890.

What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?

400

The industry that grew rapidly due to the Bessemer Process.

What is the steel industry?

400

Elijah McCoy’s invention that revolutionized industrial machinery.

What is an oil-drip system for machinery?

400

Definition of vertical integration.

What is a company controlling every step of production, from raw materials to the finished product?

400

How Granville T. Woods’ inventions impacted railroads.

What is they improved communication and safety?

400

The purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

What is to prevent companies from forming monopolies?

500

How the Bessemer Process impacted the steel industry.

What is it allowed for mass production of steel?

500

Granville T. Woods' most famous invention.

What is the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph?

500

This business strategy, famously used by John D. Rockefeller, involves a company acquiring its competitors to dominate an entire market.


What is horizontal integration?



500

J.P. Morgan’s contribution to the U.S. economy during the Second Industrial Revolution.

What is he financed major industries like steel and railroads?

500

One impact of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil.

What is it controlled most of the U.S. oil industry?