Key Terms of Second Industrial Revolution Lesson 1&2

What connected the east coast and west coast of the United States?

• Manifest Destiny

• Transcontinental Railroad

• 19th Amendment

• Erie Canal

Introduced an efficient means of retrieving oil from beneath the earth's surface

• Edwin L. Drake
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Henry Bessemer
• Thomas Edison

Perfected the incandescent light bulb at his research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey

• Edwin L. Drake
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Henry Bessemer
• Thomas Edison

Developed an entire system for producing and distributing electrical power and organized power plants around the nation.

• Edwin L. Drake
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Henry Bessemer
• Thomas Edison

Who developed an efficient technique for transforming iron into steel?

• Edwin L. Drake
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Henry Bessemer
• Thomas Edison

Which of the following people invented the typewriter?

• Thomas Edison
• Henry Bessemer
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Christopher Sholes

Invented the telephone

• Alexander the Great

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Alex Trebek

• Alex King

Railroad-car mogul who built a town to house his employees

• George M Pullman

• Thomas Edison

• Christopher Sholes

• Eugene Debs

Lewis H. Latimer

• First man to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame

• He invented Algebra

• He was among the first humans to walk on the moon

• African American inventor who played a crucial role in improving the light bulb using a carbon filament

Bessemer Process

• system in which each nation is equal in strength

• A competition between nations

• Cheap and efficient process for making steel, developed around 1850

• A truce or agreement to end hostilities