Industrialized America

What was Thomas Edison most well known invention? 

• Electricity
• Car
• Hospital 
• Light bulb 

 Led the oil industry in America       

• John D. Rockefeller
• Andrew Carnegie
• Jefferson Steelflex
• Gerald Ford

Led the steel industry             

• Harrison Ford
• Scott Joplin
• Andrew Carnegie
• George Clooney

What individual is responsible for the invention of the telephone?

• Thomas Edison
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Samuel Morse
• Andrew Carnegie

Laissez-faire means...

• natural rights
• iron law of wages
• let it happen
• tabula rasa

The first railroad to cross the United States was the....

• Union Pacific Railroad
• Central Pacific Railroad
• Missouri Railroad
• Transcontinental Railroad

Why was the transcontinental railroad beneficial to America?

• The railroad was built over mountains that were impassable in stagecoach.
• Railroads provided a faster, safer, and cheaper transportation.
• Railroads allowed People to bring their furniture to the Great Plains.
• Railroads crossed rivers which were difficult to cross earlier.

The sometimes unethical business practices of some business owners led them to be given this nickname

• Banksters
• Tycoons
• Fat Cats
• Robber Barons

What is a business that has no competitors in its industry?

• Monopoly
• Swanopoly
• Oligopoly
• Corporation

Which industry did Rockefeller dominate?

• oil

• steel

• communication

• railroad