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The technique that made it faster and less expensive to produce steel was known as the

• prospecting system
• smelting process
• forging technique
• Bessemer Process

A title of a person that was searching for oil in the mid to late 1800s was called a ___.

• Oil man
• Prospector
• Wildcatter
• Petroleum Specialist

What replaced steam and water power as the power source of the new industrial revolution?

• Gas
• Electricity
• Animals
• Humans

Which of the following effects WAS NOT an economic effect of railroad expansion

• Railroads promoted trade
• Provided many jobs
• More hotels were constructed in the east to house travelers
• Demand for rails and railcars gave a boost to steel and train manufacturers.

What effect did the transcontinental Railroad have on the country?

• Divided the country in both the North and the South
• Created too much competition that led to the end of Reconstruction
• Caused the government to almost go bankrupt because it was so expensive to build.
• United the country both physically and economically.

Who struck oil in Spindletop, Texas in January 1901 that caused a gusher to spew oil 100 feet in the air for several days?

• Anthony F. Lucas
• Edwin Drake
• Johnson P. Lewis
• John D. Rockefeller

The U.S. government aided in the expansion of railroads, especially in the West with the

• Transunion Railroad
• Pacific Railway Act
• The Homestead Act
• The Morrill Act

This photograph was taken when

• Two trains almost crashed in Omaha, Nebraska
• Two trains met at Promontory Point, Utah completing the route east and west
• Two trains completed the Transunion Railroad
• Two trains got lost and ended up on the same track.

In 1869, the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific celebrated the completion of the

• Erie Canal
• transatlantic railroad
• transcontinental railroad
• transpacific railroad
• Spindletop railroad

Select all the advantages of using steel instead of iron while building a bridge like the one below: (Eads Bridge, St. Louis, MO)

• Steel is heavier than iron
• Steel is strong
• Steel is more easily shaped than iron
• Steel is weaker than iron but will last much longer