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• increased the amount and the quality of steel being produced.

• The invention of the light bulb
• The Bessemer process
• The Ford Model T
• The Wright brothers' first flight

new steel was used to lay more __________, to build the world’s ________, and to make better machinery.

• Railroad Tracks

• first skyscrapers

• First weapons

• roads

______ engines, powered by burning _____ to _____ water, drove the textile mills, factories, and trains.

• Steam, Coal, Heat

• Gas, Oil, Cool

• Gas, Fuel, Heat

• Steam, Gas, Cool

Edison was able to create (select all that apply)

• Motion Pictures

• Light Bulb

• Telephone

• Phonograph

• A new truly national ________ began to emerge as railroads, canals, the telegraph and telephone linked the country together. 

• structure
• grid
• network
• market

• __________ started out poor, but made his fortune in oil in Ohio.

• Henry Ford
• John D. Rockefeller
• Thomas Edison
• Andrew Carnegie

• _________ started penniless, but he made his fortune in steel mills in the Pittsburgh, PA area.

• John Smith
• Henry Ford
• Thomas Edison
• Andrew Carnegie

The time when these Captains of Industry ruled America became known as the _______

• Industrial Revolution
• Gilded Age
• Roaring Twenties
• Progressive Era

Match the following

• Steel

• Carnegie

• Railroads

• Rockefeller

• Oil

• Vanderbilt

• Finance/Banking

• Morgan

The growth of cities is called:

• assimilation

• ruralization

• mechanization

• urbanization