Industrialization & Immigration

The US was mainly an ____________nation until after the Civil War.

• empty

• industrial

• agricultural

Why did the industrial boom happen?

(Select more than one option)

• Natural Resources

• Government support of business

• immigration

• Confederacy winning the war

_______ became the most valuable fuel source in America.

• steel

• oil

• coal

• steam

Who controlled 90% of the American oil industry?

• Carnegie

• Rockefeller

• Vanderbilt

A lighter, stronger, more flexible metal....

• iron

• steel

• coal

Controlled the steel industry in America...

• Carnegie

• Rockefeller

• Vanderbilt

Thomas Edison invented the _______________.

• electricity

• lightbulb

• telephone

Alexander Graham Bell invented the ___________

• electricity

• lightbulb

• telephone

The Transcontinental Railroad connected what to what?

• North to South

• East to West

• Day to Night

Railroads pushed new types of __________

• slavery

• trade

• war