U.S. History Mid-Term Exam

 How did Railroads impact the economy during this time?

• Moved raw materials (steel, lumber, coal) to factories 
• Used to make artillery and weapons
• Provided money for other industries
• Materials were more expensive and quicker to ship

Describe JP Morgan 

• Powerful banker & art collector
• Had a monopoly of oil industry
• Owned a steel monopoly
• Built buildings in NY city

Define a monopoly.

• A card game
• businesses that are owned by investors
• A company controls all or most of businesses in an industry.
• Poor families

Describe John D. Rockefeller.

• Built a steel empire
• powerful banker
• Owned Standard Oil Company 
• Had a steel Monopoly

Why was Thomas Edison such a big deal?

• Great Scientist-cured Polio
• Great Inventor - improved electric light 
• Great Doctor - invented liver transplant
• Great Teacher - taught social studies

What were some problems that the people in factories encountered?

• long hours, good pay
• Low wages, long hours, dangerous
• dangerous, long hours, good pay
• low wages, good hours. dangerous

How did Andrew Carnegie make his money?

• Oil
• Steel
• Banking
• Railroad

the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West was called

• Harlem Renaissance

• Great Migration

• Great Move

• Trail of Tears

Ellis Island was:

• the immigration processing center on the West Coast

• the immigration processing center on the East Coast

• Where prisoners of war were sent on the West Coast

• Where prisoners of war were sent on the East Coast

Angel Island was:

• the immigration processing center on the West Coast

• the immigration processing center on the East Coast

• Where prisoners of war were sent on the West Coast

• Where prisoners of war were sent on the East Coast