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Industrial Growth (1865-1914)
Powerpoint Questions
Instructions:
Use the PowerPoint to answer these questions. Answer the following
questions in complete sentences or you will get zero credit!
1. What birthday did America celebrate in 1876? (Slide 2)
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2. How did production change in the world? (Slide 2)
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3. Who invented the telephone? (Slide 2)
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4. How did railroads help in the Civil War? (Slide 3)
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5. Define the term, gauge. (Slide 3)
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6. What is a network? (Slide 4)
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7. Name two improvements in the railroad? (Slide 4)
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8. Define the term, consolidated. (Slide 5)
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9. Who bought up the railroad lines? (Slide 5)
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10. How much railroad track did Cornelius Vanderbilt own before he died? (Slide 5)
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11. What railroad did Vanderbilt buy? (Slide 5)
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12. What was cutthroat competition? (Slide 6)
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13. What is a rebate? (Slide 6)
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14. What was a railroad pool? (Slide 7)
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15. How did the railroads help the lumber and steel industry? (Slide 9)
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16. How did railroads help settlements? (Slide 9)
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17. Who discovered a new way to make steel? (Slide 11)
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18. How did the Bessemer process help the steel industry? (Slide 11)
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19. What city became the steel capital of the world? (Slide 12)
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20. What did the steel industry bring to the cities? (Slide 12)
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21. Who made his fortune from the steel industry? (Slide 13)
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22. What is vertical integration? (Slide 13)
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23. How did Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward sell their products? (Slide 15)
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24. What is a corporation? (Slide 16)
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25. What is a dividend? (Slide 16)
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26. What valuable resource was discovered in 1859? (Slide 17)
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27. Who founded the Standard Oil Company? (Slide 17)
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28. What is a monopoly? (Slide 17)
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29. What is a free enterprise system? (Slide 18)
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30. What did the Sherman Antitrust Act ban? (Slide 18)
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31. Why was the patent office so busy in 1897? (Slide 19)
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32. Who invented a shoe-making machine? (Slide 19)
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33. Who invented the air brake? (Slide 19)
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34. Who invented the telegraph? (Slide 20)
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35. What did Cyrus Field complete? (Slide 20)
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36. What kind of machine did Alexander Graham Bell invent? (Slide 21)
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37. What was the name of the company Alexander Graham Bell started? (Slide 21)
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38. Name two inventions Thomas Edison created? (Slide 22)
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39. Why was Edison’s invention of an electric power plant so important to us
today? (Hint: What did the plant supply for homes?) (Slide 23)
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40. What did Elijah McCoy invent? (Slide 24)
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41. What did Granville T. Woods invent? (Slide 25)
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42. What did Jan Matzeliger invent? (Slide 26)
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43. What trouble did African Americans inventors have? (Slide 27)
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44. What did Christopher Sholes invent? (Slide 28)
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45. What did George Eastman invent? (Slide 28)
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46. What did Gustavus Swift introduce? (Slide 28)
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47. Who revolutionized auto making? (Slide 30)
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48. What is an assembly line? (Slide 30)
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49. What is mass production? (Slide 31)
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50. What is another name for a “horseless carriage?” (Slide 32)
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51. What were the names of the first people to fly? (Slide 33)
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52. In what town did the Wright brothers fly their first plane? (Slide 33)
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53. What did people from Europe and Asia find in America? (Slide 34)
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54. Were the conditions for factory workers in the 1870’s good or bad? (Slide 35)
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55. Who did factory workers hire to do the hazardous jobs? (Slide 36)
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56. Why did workers ban together? (Slide 37)
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57. What was the name of the union workers organized? (Slide 37)
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58. What was the goal of the Knights of Labor? (Slide 37)
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59. Why did membership drop in the Knights of Labor? (Slide 37)
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60. Who formed the AFL? (Slide 38)
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61. What did the AFL stress? (Slide 38)
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62. What was the name of the biggest strike? (Slide 39)
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63. Define the term, injunction. (Slide 39)
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