SSUSH11: Review a-c

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A need for a stronger, more flexible metal in the construction of these led to an early increase in demand for steel: Trains, Railroad tracks, Airplanes, Automobiles

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Railroad tracks

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

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It transported oil.

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Who controlled the steel industry during the Gilded Age?

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Andrew Carnegie

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This is a type of monopoly: Trust, Corporation, Merger, Subsidiary

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Trust

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

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Monopoly

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This invention made it possible to send messages from one train station to another in seconds.

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telegraph

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Who had the first two way telephone conversation in 1876, changing communications forever?

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Alexander Graham Bell

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The perfection of this device by Thomas Edison allowed factories to operate day and night shifts.

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Light Bulb

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What was one motive the United States government provided subsidies and land grants to railroad companies in the 1800s?

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To create railroad networks that spanned the entire country

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What were industrial leaders (Like Rockefeller in Oil Industry and Carnegie in Steel Industry) able to do by creating monopolies and establishing trusts?

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make vast amounts of wealth by limiting competition, cutting production costs, and controlling prices.