Unit 6: Growth & Expansion

What industry contributed to rapid growth in the steel and oil industries?

• Automobile

• Electrical Power

• Coal

• Railroad

A need for a stronger, more flexible metal in the construction of these led to an early increase in demand for steel

• Trains

• Railroad tracks

• Airplanes

• Automobiles

How did the late 19th century railroad industry contribute to the oil industry?

• It used oil to fuel the engines

• It used oil to lubricate its engines

• It transported oil

• Construction on the railroad led to the accidental discovery of oil

This man controlled the steel industry during the Gilded Age

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D Rockefeller

• JP Morgan

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

This is a term for when one company controls the majority of an industry

• Monopoly

• Merger

• Corporation

• Company

This man owned Standard Oil and controlled 90% of the oil industry during the Gilded Age

• Andrew Carnegie

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• John D Rockefeller

• JP Morgan

This is a type of monopoly in which one person or a group of people coordinate multiple companies

• Trust

• Corporation

• Merger

• Subsidiary

This invention made it possible to send coded messages from one place to another in seconds.

• telegraph

• internet

• electricity

• Morse code

This inventor had the first two way telephone conversation in 1876, changing communications forever

• Alexander Graham Bell

• J. P. Morgan

• Thomas Edison

• Nicola Tesla

The perfection of this device by Thomas Edison allowed factories to operate day and night shifts

• Pocket Watch

• Frozen Dinner

• Light Bulb

• Gas Lamp