Industrial Revolution

Most people live in _________ until the mid 1700s?

• plantations

• rural towns

• urban cities

• villages

The industrial revolution began in

• Russia

• China

• America

• Great Britain

Invented the steel making process

• Henry Bessemer

• Karl Marx

• JD Power

• Vanderbilt

Many early Railroad companies

• provided funding to libraries and museums

• filed for bankruptcy

• had depots throughout every state in the US

• only transported good from the South to the North

Railroad time became

• universal time

• international time

• national time

• standard time

What industry became the first industry to be regulated by the government?

• coal industry

• railroad industry

• textile industry

• steel industry

Early attempts by the government to regulate the railroads failed.

• True

• False

The Great Lakes region with abundant coal reserves and access to iron ore emerged as a leading

• textile producer

• steel producer

• coal producer

• the fine arts

Carnegie’s success was the result of a very purposeful and careful plan to own every part of the steel industry called

• Horizontal integration

• Perpendicular integration

• Vertical integration

• The Bessemer Process

Who founded Standard Oil (Esso or Exxon) which controlled most of the nation’s oil refineries?

• Andrew Carnegie

• JP Morgan

• JD Rockefeller

• Andrew Bessemer