Unit 7: Industrial & Progressive Era

How did American industry grow after the Civil War？

• By investing in the shipping industry

• By investing in the railroads

• By investing in oil refinerys

• By investing in the steel industry

What industry contributed to rapid growth in the steel and oil industries?

• Automobile

• Electrical Power

• Coal

• Railroad

How did the late 19th century railroad industry contribute to the oil industry?

• It used oil to fuel the engines

• It used oil to lubricate its engines

• It transported oil

• Construction on the railroad led to the accidental discovery of oil

This man controlled the steel industry during the Gilded Age

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D Rockefeller

• JP Morgan

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

This is a term for when one company controls the majority of an industry

• Monopoly

• Merger

• Corporation

• Company

This man owned Standard Oil and controlled 90% of the oil industry during the Gilded Age

• Andrew Carnegie

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• John D Rockefeller

• JP Morgan

This is a type of monopoly in which one person or a group of people coordinate multiple companies

• Trust

• Corporation

• Merger

• Subsidiary

This person invented the phonograph, motion pictures, an electric generator, and a proper electric lightbulb.

• Thomas Edison

• Nicolai Tesla

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Andrew Carnegie

This invention made it possible to send coded messages from one place to another in seconds.

• telegraph

• internet

• electricity

• Morse code

How does this image reflect the changing lifestyle of Americans due to technological innovations?

• Many Americans were afraid of the new technology

• Americans had to learn how to adjust to rapid technological growth

• The new technology made the life of many Americans more difficult

• The life of Americans were not greatly affected by the new innovations