FIP US History Unit 6 Part 1

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How did the growth of railroads impact American society after the Civil War?

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The oil and steel industries gained considerable political and economic power.

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How did steel makers resolve the problem of transporting iron ore from Michigan and Minnesota to Pennsylvania in the 1870s and 1880s?

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They transported the ore using railroads.

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Which strategy led to Andrew Carnegie’s success as a business owner?

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He obtained control over most of the nation’s steel industry by buying out his suppliers and competitors.

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How did John D. Rockefeller use vertical integration to increase the profits of Standard Oil?

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He controlled the companies that supplied his business.

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What was a major goal of 19th-century industrialists in merging their companies?

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To gain complete control over an industry.

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Use the cartoon depicting the Standard Oil Company to answer the question. In this critique of the rise of industrialization and its impact on the United States, the artist sought to illustrate

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the dangers of monopolies

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Which major improvement to US infrastructure was triggered by the invention of the light bulb?

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the building of an electricity grid

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Why was telephone communication an improvement over telegraph communication for businesses?

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Telephones allowed businesses to communicate more efficiently than telegraphs.

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What did this trend contribute to in the mid-nineteenth century?

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the industrial development of the United States

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Beginning in 1910, the US officials began operating out of Angel Island with the primary goal of:

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controlling the influx of Chinese immigrants to the United States.