The Expansion of Industry

In the years after the Civil War, advances in technology began to change the nation. What were the causes of the advances?

• Large supply of natural resources

• Explosion of inventions

• Growing city population (wanted new products)

• Steady leadership by Congress

• Expansion of 20 new states

One important natural resource was ​ (a)   .

• oil
• blubber
• gold
• silver

In 1859, ​ (a)   used a steam engine to drill for oil, starting an oil boom.

• Edwin L. Drake
• Andrew Carnegie
• Henry Bessemer
• John D. Rockefeller

The cities of ​ (a)   helped in starting the oil-regining industries, where workers turned oil into kerosene.

• Cleveland and Pittsburgh
• Cleveland and Atlanta
• New York and Pittsburgh
• Pittsburg and Boston
• Boston and New York

Another product oil produced was ​ (a)   . This would be important when the ​ (b)   became popular.

• gasoline
• automobile
• salt
• gold
• submarine
• helicopters

Americans discovered that their nation was rich in what other products?

• Coal

• Iron

• Copper

• Nickel

• Uranium

The ​ (a)   made iron into a lighter, more flexible metal known as steel

• Bessemer process
• Rockefeller process
• Lincoln process
• Carnegie process

Along with being used for railroads, what else was steel used to?

• Improve farm tools

• making cans for preserving food

• building bridges

• making teepee

• lighting houses

Steel was also used to build ​ (a)   , like the Home Insurance Building in Chicago? ​

• skyscrapers
• low grazers
• regular houses

​ (a)   : established worlds first research laboratory; used lab to perfect the light bulb

​ (b)   : inventor of the typewriter

​ (c)   : along with Thomas Watson, invented the telephone

• Thomas Alva Edison
• Christopher Sholes
• Alexander Graham Bell