Chapter 20 The Industrial Age

A powerful business leader who controlled a major railroad was called a...

• railroad baron

• oil tycoon

• steel mongol

• standard gauge

What helped improve railway transportation by creating a sensible schedule?

• air brakes

• the Janney Car Coupler

• Time Zones

• steel railroads

How did railroads change America?

• American industry expanded into the West

• Railroads aided in the development of other major industries (such as steel)

• railroads changed where people lived

• all of these answers are correct

Who invented the telephone?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• George Eastman

• Benjamin Franklin

Who invented the first long-lasting light bulb and and phonograph?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• George Westinghouse

• Ben Franklin

• Thomas Edison

What did the Wright brothers invent?

• the first train

• the first car

• the first airplane

• the first helicopter

What is an entrepreneur?

• a person who starts a business

• a person who works for a major corporation

• a person who buys stock from a corporation

• a person who works for the government

Who was one of the first oil tycoons?

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Henry Ford

What is horizontal integration?

• combining competing companies of the same type into a corporation

• buying up companies that make the input (raw materials) needed to make the product

• laying sideways

• the way trains traveled through the country

What is vertical integration?

• combining competing companies of the same type into a corporation

• when a company controls all stages of production

• both of these answers are correct

• none of these answers are correct