Module 3: Industrialization

This inventor helped perfect the lightbulb, leading to electric power being used to run industry's machines and make travel more efficient

What process involved injecting air into molten iron to remove carbon and other impurities?

• Bessemer Process

• Open-hearth Process

• Tungsten Filament

• Steel Industry

Aside from railroads, steel began to be used in farming with equipment like​​ (a)   and the construction of ​ (b)   for skyscrapers as they began shifting away from ​ (c)   .

• reapers
• frames
• iron

​ (a)   were a group of farmers demanding control over the ​ (b)   after they began fixing prices and misusing government land grants - leading to the case ​ (c)   .

• Grangers
• railroad industry
• Munn v. Illinois

Which of the following statements are NOT true?

• Cornelius Vanderbilt was responsible for buying several small railroads and linking them together into the first large networks between cities.

• Chinese and Irish immigrants worked on the construction of railroads.

• 'Supply and demand' shares that after a period of expansion, a country will experience resulting in bankruptcy and the closing of many businesses.

• The Interstate Commerce Act reestablished the right of the federal government to supervise railroad activities and set up the ICC.

Explain one way how railroads made local transit reliable and westward expansion possible for businesses and/or people.