Lesson 18: Iron Smelting and Oil Industries Emerge

Heating process that allows workers to remove other unwanted parts of iron ore and fuse or melt together the leftover pure iron.

• refining

• iron smelting

• drilling

• excavating

A product of soft coal.

• iron

• limestone

• coke

• loam

A natural resource from which iron is made.

• coke

• phosphate

• gold

• iron ore

To purify from a crude state, such as petroleum.

• refined

• combined

• mixed

• settled

A thin oil produced from petroleum for a fuel and solvent.

• petroleum

• kerosene

• oil

• magma

• kerosene

• corn oil

• petroleum

• refined

Oil towers.

• derricks

• stations

• wells

• factories

How did the iron-smelting industry help railroad companies to grow and become profitable.

• The railroad industry created a huge demand for iron

• The railroad industry created a demand for oil.

• Iron was needed for steam engines.

• Iron was need for the rails.

Who built the nation's first oil refinery in Pittsburgh to produce kerosene in 1850?

• Robert Fulton

• Samuel Kier

• Edwin Drake

• Andrew Carnegie

Who catapulted the modern petroleum industry onto our scene by being the first person to drill a successful oil well?

• Samuel Kier

• Andrew Carnegie

• Edwin Drake

• Benjamin Franklin