What technique is used to make steel from iron?

• bessemer process

• vertical integration

• horizontal integration

transcontinental railroad

• a railroad that crosses an entire country

• a railroad that crosses an entire continent

• a railroad that goes from east to west

Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Major figure in the expansion of regional railroads connecting New York to the Midwest.

• Scottish immigrant who became a giant in the steel industry.

• Head of the Standard Oil Company.

J.P. Morgan

• Head of the Standard Oil Company.

• Scottish immigrant who became a giant in the steel industry.

• Banker who made his money by taking over and merging other businesses.

John D. Rockefeller was

• a major figure in the expansion of regional railroads connecting New York to the Midwest.

• a Scottish immigrant who became a giant in the steel industry.

• the head of the Standard Oil Company.

African American inventor of carbon filament

• Lewis H. Latimer

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Process in which a company buys out its suppliers.

• vertical integration

• horizontal integration

• bessemer process

Alexander Graham Bell

• Inventor of the telephone

• Inventor of the light bulb

• inventor of carbon filament

An industrial boom at the end of the 19th century fueled by natural resources, creative ideas and growing markets.

• immigration

• industrialization

• urbanization

The era between 1865 - 1898 where the US experienced rapid industrialization, immigration and urbanization.

• The Golden Age

• The Great Era

• The Gilded Age