Manufacturing area(map) and Inventions

Match the following

• D

• Detroit-Automobiles

• E

• St Louis- Hair Care/Cosmetics

• A

• Chicago-Meatpacking

• B

• Pittsburgh-Steel

• C

• New England-Textile

Match the following

• H

• Hair Care/Cosmetics

• I

• Automobiles

• G

• Steel

• F

• Textile

• E

• Meatpacking

Between the Civil War and World War I, the United States was transformed from primarily an ​ (a)   society into one based on ​ (b)   and services.

• manufacturing
• agricultural

Electric lighting and mechanical uses of electricity is credited to inventors like_______________ . 

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• Wright Brothers

___________________ figured out how the telephone worked and put a patent on it in the United States.

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• Wright Brothers

​ (a)   and mechanical uses of ​ (b)   is credited to inventors like​ (c)   .

• Electric lighting
• electricity
• Thomas Edison

The ​ (a)   was invented because telegraph wire written ​ (b)   were hard for untrained people to use

• telephone
• messages

Because of the ​ (a)   , people could now ​ (b)   over longer distances much faster and easier.

• telephone
• communicate

What invention permitted  large scale, long distance transport of goods.

• Telephone

• Railroads

• Electricity

• Light Bulb

By the end of 1879 ​ (a)   and his team of inventors had improved and the electric ​ (b)   . He then built  a power plant to supply ​ (c)   to dozens of New York city buildings.

• Edison
• light bulb
• electricity