S.S. CHAPTER 3 REVIEW

Thomas Edison

• Founded the New York Central Railroad

• Created the first long lasting light bulb and electrical generating system

• Was responsible for arranging deals that helped establish major corporations such as General Electric and U.S. Steel

• Created what became the largest steel company in in the United States

Henry Ford

• Founded the New York Central Railroad

• Was responsible for creating the assembly line for mass production in automobiles

• Was responsible for arranging deals that helped establish major corporations such as General Electric and U.S. Steel

• Controlled 90% of the U.S. oil production at one time

What is a Monopoly?

• When a company is allowed to eliminate all of the competition.

• When the assembly line used to produce many automobiles at once.

• Economic growth for everyone

• A game about music and movies.

Andrew Carnegie

• Created the first phonograph which was a machine to record sound and play it back.

• Founded the New York Central Railroad.

• Controlled 90% of the U.S. oil production at one time.

• Created what became the largest steel company in in the United States?

John D. Rockefeller

• Founded the New York Central Railroad.

• Created the first phonograph which was a machine to record sound and play it back.

• Controlled 90% of the U.S. oil production at one time.

• Created what became the largest steel company in in the United States.

What is the Gilded Age?

• A poor time in America.

• A time during the American War.

• A time when farmers gained more land.

• An era when railroads, oil, steel, and coal became dominant industries that shaped a modern America.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Founded the New York Central Railroad.

• Created what became the largest steel company in in the United States.

• Created what became the largest steel company in in the United States.

• Invented a wide variety of peanut products.

J.P. Morgan

• Created what became the largest steel company in in the United States?

• Controlled 90% of the U.S. oil production at one time?

• Invented a machine that could transmit human voice over wires.

• Was responsible for arranging deals that helped establish major corporations such as General Electric and U.S. Steel

Alexander Graham Bell

• Invented a wide variety of peanut products.

• Created what became the largest steel company in in the United States.

• Invented a macine that could transmit the human voice over wires (telephone).

• Controlled 90% of the U.S. oil production at one time.

George Washington Carver

• Invented the telephone.

• Invented the long-lasting light bulb.

• Invented the Assembly Line.

• Invented a wide variety of peanut products.