Social Studies Life after the Civil War

To apply oil to make an object move more easily

• water

• lubricate

• sand

• fire

Oil drilled from the ground.

• natural gas

• Petroleum

• kerosene

• Olive oil

Thin light-colored oil made from petroleum used for fuel

• gasoline
• diesel
• propane
• kerosene

to purify also means to...

• refine

• contaminate
• wash
• dirty

Raw materials are resources used to make a product

• TRUE

• FALSE

A group of workers that unite to go on strike are called Strikes

• TRUE

• FALSE

What did colleges focus on BEFORE the Civil War?

• training men to be good farmers

• Space exploration, artificial intelligence, and robotics
• Training men to be leaders

• training men to work on business

What made skyscrapers possible?

• Invention of the wheel
• Steel

• Telegraphs

• Petroleum

Who became the most important steel manufacturer in the nation?

• John Smith
• Henry Ford
• Andrew Carnegie
• Thomas Edison

Who used to pay his workers every two weeks?

(a)  

• Andrew Carnegie
• Alexander Graham Bell
• John D. Rockefeller

• Thomas Edison