Note Card Quiz #8 Review

Intensified the movement of people West

• Mississippi River

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Boats

• Panama Canal

Source of labor for the Transcontinental Railroad

• Japanese

• English

• Chinese

• Poles

Gave free land to all who would go west and farm it (160 acres)

• Free Farm Act

• Homestead Act of 1862

• Gold Rush

• John Rockefeller

Landing site of many European immigrants on the east coast

• Ellis Island

• Virginia Beach

• Boston

• Philadelphia

Developed new way to manufacture steel

• Vanderbilt

• Morgan

• Bessemer

• Hayes

Invented the light bulb

• Carnegie

• Bell

• Edison

• Wright Brothers

Invented the assembly line

• Edison

• Ford

• Bell

• Vanderbilt

Leader in the steel industry

• Vanderbilt

• Morgan

• Carnegie

• Rockefeller

Leader in the oil industry

• Rockefeller

• Vanderbilt

• Morgan

• Carnegie

Leader in the railroad industry

• Rockefeller

• Morgan

• Carnegie

• Vanderbilt