U.S. History Chapter 14

Who invented the typewriter?

• Eugene V. Debs

• Edwin L. Drake

• Christopher Sholes

• Henry Bessemer

At Promontory Point, Utah, where the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads met on May 10, 1869, a golden spike marked the linking of the nation by the first transcontinental railroad.

• True

• False

Who formed the American Railway Union

• Eugene V. Debs

• Andrew Carnegie

• Henry Bessemer

• Alexander Graham Bell

Who was an industrialist whose company produced standard railroad cars and elegant sleeping cars. His company town, which he hoped would ensure a stable workforce, was criticized as “un-American.”

• Andrew Carnegie

• George M. Pullman

• Eugene V. Debs

Process by which a company buys out all of its suppliers

• Bessemer Process

• horizontal integration

• vertical integration

Process by which a company grows by acquiring a similar company in their industry at the same point of the supply chain.

• vertical integration

• horizontal integration

Who developed an efficient technique for transforming iron into steel?

• Thomas Alva Edison

• Henry Bessemer

• Christopher Sholes

• Henry Bessemer

Who introduced an efficient means of retrieving oil from beneath the earth’s surface?

• J.P. Morgan

• Edwin L. Drake

• Henry Bessemer

• George M. Pullman

Millionaire tycoon who made his riches in the steel industry

• George M Pullman

• Andrew Carnegie

• Eugene V. Debs

• J P Morgan

Who perfected the incandescent light bulb?

• Eugene V. Debs

• Thomas Alva Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Orville and Wilbur Wright