Industrialization,Big Business,and The West

Front

This process converted iron into steel and allowed for taller buildings, longer bridges, and heavier machinery.

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Bessemer Process

Front

Who controlled the steel industry during the Gilded Age?

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Andrew Carnegie

Front

Who owned Standard Oil and controlled most of the oil industry during the Gilded Age?

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John D. Rockefeller

Front

Monopoly

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Trust

Front

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

Back

Monopoly

Front

The rise of big business meant most people worked at _____.

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factories

Front

Which statement best describes United States economic history during the period 1865-1900?

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Industrialization increased at a rapid rate.

Front

The sometimes unethical, corrupt business practices of some industrialists led them to be given this nickname.

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Robber Baron

Front

What was the effect of the Transcontinental Railroad?

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All of the above (became a more efficient form of transportation for settlers, increased trade between the East and West and boosted the economy, polluted the air and the natural environment)

Front

The belief that the U.S. had a right and duty to expand across the North American continent was known as

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Manifest Destiny