Industry and Innovation

This process converted iron to steel and allowed for taller buildings, longer bridges, and heavier machinery.

• Carnegie Process
• Ironing Process
• Bessemer Process
• Bell Process

This man controlled the steel industry during the Gilded Age

• Andrew Carnegie
• John D Rockefeller
• JP Morgan
• Cornelius Vanderbilt

This man owned Standard Oil and controlled most of the oil industry during the Gilded Age

• Andrew Carnegie
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• John D Rockefeller
• JP Morgan

This is another word for monopoly

• Trust
• Corporation
• Merger
• Subsidiary

This is a term for when one company controls the majority of an industry

• Monopoly
• Merger
• Corporation
• Company

The rise of big business meant most people worked at _____.

• farms

• plantations

• factories

• churches

Which statement best describes the United States economic history during the period 1865-1900?

• Industrialization increased at a rapid rate.

• Factories imported most of their raw materials.

• The lack of immigration tended to decrease industrial production.

• American industrial technology was hindered by the Civil War.

What was the effect of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Became a more efficient form of transportation for settlers
• Increased trade between the east and west and boosted the economy
• Polluted the air and the natural environment
• All of the above

The belief that the US had a right and duty to expand across the North American contitent was known as

• The Great Expansion
• Manifest Destiny
• Oregon Fever
• The Monroe Doctrine

What did the Homestead Act offer?

• a new home for travelers

• a stop along the Oregon Trail

• free land after 5 years of living on it.